Doc Holliday follows the Georgia-born dentist whose illness, gambling and movement through western towns brought him into the violent world of frontier law and feuds. It traces his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his reputation as a dangerous but loyal gunman.
The biography places Holliday within the conflict in Tombstone that culminated in the gunfight near the O.K. Corral and the subsequent vendetta ride. It separates contemporary evidence from later western mythology and concludes with his declining health and death from tuberculosis in Colorado.
