Doc Holliday Audiobook By Gary L. Roberts cover art

Doc Holliday

The Life and Legend

Preview
Try for $0.00
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Doc Holliday

By: Gary L. Roberts
Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $25.79

Buy for $25.79

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

In Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend, the historian Gary Roberts takes aim at the most complex, perplexing, and paradoxical gunfighter of the Old West, drawing on more than 20 years of research - including new primary sources - in his quest to separate the life from the legend.

Doc Holliday was a study in contrasts: the legendary gunslinger who made his living as a dentist; the emaciated consumptive whose very name struck fear in the hearts of his enemies; the degenerate gambler and alcoholic whose fierce loyalty to his friends compelled him, more than once, to risk his own life; and the sidekick whose near-mythic status rivals that of the West's greatest heroes. With lively details of Holliday's spirited exploits, his relationships with such Western icons as Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, this book sheds new light on one of the most mysterious figures of frontier history.

©2006 Gary L. Roberts (P)2019 Tantor
Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Old West Wild West
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_T1_webcro805_stickypopup
Well-researched History • Compelling Narrative • Detailed Biography • Historical Context • Thorough Information
Highly rated for:
All stars
Most relevant  
It got a little tedious at times but I’m glad I stuck with it. I picked it up at random and I wound up really enjoying it, especially towards the end.

Great story and narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I absolutely enjoyed this book!! I think it was well written & had lots of information.

Doc

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Worth the listen if you enjoy the story of Doc and Wyatt. Very informative to facts and myths you may not have known about. Had me craving every moment to listen

Worth the listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

One of the best researched and fairly presented biographies I’ve ever read. This the most objective, matter of fact presentations of a biography I’ve ever read/heard. And yet, the author still manages to weave a compelling narrative. This is a must listen!

All biographers should side this as template

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Doc Holiday was not what the Newspapers / Media formats back then and all of the Hollywood programs to paint him as as evil man. Was and is a lie. If you Study History you can and will be able to relate the same way now in 2024 with elite take over offices were all taken place then too.

Really Doc Holiday was Not the Outlaw Media then made it same so then.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I enjoyed the many opinions and what was factual and what was not. When multiple opinions conflicted they were each detailed and explained.

Good Listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

This book is very well researched and written in the Ken Burns style. If you are dumb piece of cod’s wallop just check out Tombstone. If you want to read a detailed, pleasant, informative book, this one is highly recommended. The previous reviewer is clearly not a golfer.

“Watch Tombstone?” You are an idiot

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

This book solidified the picture in my mind of Doc Holliday. A deeply flawed man with as deep a burning sense of loyalty to his friends as a hatred towards his enemies.

A very interesting listen.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Wonderful and packed full of exciting historical, non-bias facts and deep details about Doc as well as all of the meaningful historical figures of that western period in history.

Ronderfully researched book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

A thoroughly enjoyable book. Well researched and written so as to give many points of view and credence to the the possibilities that have become the legend of Doc Holiday. Loved the book!

Worth the time.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

See more reviews