Doc Holiday???? about interview and a book

[lostone1413]

I was wondering if anyone has read the book "Doc Holiday" by Bob Boze?? I see it in the True West magazine but at $30.00 plus shipping I was wondering how accurate it is.    Also have read that in Col before he died Doc Holiday gave an interview to a Denver newspaper. I was wondering if anyone ever read the intreview and if it iis on the net anyplace?? I've looked all over and can't finnd it. One of the things in the book by Bob Boze is the interview that alone might be worth the price of the book But if you've read the book or interview let me know what you think of them Chuck (Cottonwood,AZ>)

[Capt Hamp Cox]

Haven't read the book you reference, but was in Leadville, CO several years back and picked up a pamphlet compiled by Emma Walling titled:

                                "John "Doc" Holliday
                                       Colorado
                                Trials and Triumphs"

It is a collection of transcribed newspaper articles pertaining to "Doc" that appeared in Colorado newspapers between May 18, 1882 and August 23, 1985 (yes 1985).  One of the articles is an interview of "Doc" conducted by a reporter for The Denver Republican that appeared in the Monday, May 22, 1882 edition (page 5 column 1, 2 & 3) of that publication.  The article lead in reads as follows:

                                     AWFUL ARIZONA
                 DOC. HOLLADAY TELLS THE STORY OF THE
                    COUNTRY OF RUSTLERS AND KILLERS.
          HE PREDICTS THAT HE WILL BE KILLED SHOULD HE BE TAKEN TO  
                                        TOMBSTONE,
                    AND SAYS HE WOULD RATHER BE SHOT
                     DOWN HERE THAN MURDERED THERE.
             DEATH BY THE HANDS OF AN OFFICER PREFERABLE
                               TO HANGING BY THIEVES.

Any possibility this is what you are looking for?  The pamphlet also contains several newspaper articles pertaining to his death that were published in 1887.

Hamp

[lostone1413]

Hi sounds just what i'm lookin for. Some place on the net their has to be a copy of the interview I guess I just haven't pulled up the right place. That book I was talkin about I seen a copy yesterday at the Cowboy Corral in Sedona Maybe i'll just pay the $30.00 and get the book They also had one about Wyatt Earp by the same author it to was $30.00 Thanks for the info Chuck

[Holiday]

Chuck, if ya do buy that book, let us know how you like it and what you think of it.

[lostone1413]

I sure will be a couple weeks before I get to Sedona again then i'll maybe just buy it

[Rick Crabtree]

I have the book. Appropriatly enough I bought it in Tombstone at Helldorado days a couple years ago. The book is very good. I recomend it.
As for accuracy Holiday is one of those carachters that so little is known "for sure" it is hard to say what is true and what is not.
Pinkertons had him listed as 5'3" and 115 pounds. Other sources have him 5'10"(tall for the day) The are several pictures of Holiday that have been published over the years, yet there is great discreptancy which one is really Holliday. Some books and articles I have read say he was a crack shot, other say he was quite inept at marksmanship.
In fact the more one reads of him the more confusing it gets. I quess you have to make up you mind what to believe.
But it is all interesting.