Doc Holliday Before Tombstone: New Evidence Tracks the Trail of the Deadly Dentist

[@wirecutter59]

Very well done, Bob. Thank you.

[@johnnyrobishcomedy]

Great tale, Bob. Love your stuff. Keep up the good work.

[@40packard1]

Bob, you are the most fascinating conversationalist person I have ever listened to on any subject! Thank you so much!

[@dks13827]

I love hearing the routes taken by the old Arizona travelers !!!!!

[@patcomerford394]

Thank you for the knowledge sir

[@gus473]

Dang good story, Bob! Gotta track down that issue of True West! Prescott was always a favorite place to visit.

[@johnpogz9523]

Your videos make my day Mr. Bob. Thank you

[@barbarazimet7313]

This was fantastic BBB!!! I always love watching you speak, and you always educate me!!!!🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠

[@alanquintus2069]

Always good when there's content from BBB and True West Magazine!

[@michaelweiser6887]

Good stuff, Bob. Some years ago I wrote a screenplay about Doc which required a lot of research (including a trip to Tombstone), but I wasn’t aware of most of what you shared here.

[@jimmymacias6335]

Mr. Bell, it's great to see you put out this video. I miss seeing more from you, I really appreciate the time you gave me at the Tucson book fest. And the amazing picture you took with me, hope to meet you again sometime your work and artistry are fantastic God Bless 🎉

[@JoyCelebrating]

Thanks Bob, I love tuning in and listening to you. I’m a new listener, but I’m definitely here to stay thanks buddy.🤠👍

[@bradcourtney6615]

Thank you so much BBB!

[@colinasquith]

Very interesting, as always. The modes of transportation are endlessly fascinating. And good on Brad Courtney.

[@scottmcfarland2149]

OUTSTANDING

[@robertwildes7550]

Great to see you back Bob.

[@oletimer5853]

Wow … great to see another video from you !! Without even pushing play yet, I know it’s going to be a great video. Thank you, sir. Great respect !!

[@dr.froghopper6711]

Very cool! Thanks!

[@Jspree12]

Amazing video as always! You’re such a great storyteller with your details and the little nuances - really takes the audience there vicariously. I wish you posted videos all the time…I always learn so much more about topics that I’m already fascinated with. Thank you for your education and dedication.

[@Rob-gy1dd]

Hey bud. I’ve missed you. Few and far between. Thank you for this.

[@douggoss4855]

Awesome update Bob. Keep them coming!

[@richardyoder3646]

Another great one Bob

[@alabamabandofbrotherscampb8777]

Outstanding!!

[@Desolate1]

Yay, Bob’s back! I enjoyed this one. Love The Palace, you could do an episode on that place alone. It’s not just the most beautiful saloon in all of Arizona, it also has GREAT food! The original bar was saved during the Whiskey Row fires because patrons took it across the street and continued to drink while everything burned. Doc was a regular, he allegedly killed someone there during a knife fight. Be cool to know more about that story.

[@bradcourtney6615]

Hi Desolate. That story about Doc killing someone in the Palace is false history. Someone put that on Wikipedia believing that the scene in Tombstone was real history. The scene itself is actually historical fiction based on historical fiction. According to Kate, it never happened anywhere; like she said, it makes for great reading, and I wish it was true because I would be all over it writing about it. BTW, the Wikipedia page on the Palace is almost all incorrect, full of false history. Hopefully it will be taken down someday as it has misled many many people. There are no buildings standing in Prescott today that were around when Doc was here. The only Earp that could have been in the Palace is Virgil, as he returned in the 1890s and stayed around until 1903.

[@SuperHorseshoer]

just read article and the one on bill Tilghman both great!! tks

[@Charles-qq7vf]

Very cool!!! I hiked back to Gillette, about 30 years ago, to find not too much of Gillette there. I'd be willing to bet there is less these days. When you first mentioned Big Nose Kate leaving Gillette for Globe, I giggled a bit, then right on cue, you hit it! You would REALLY wanted to have taken that trip back then! For those not from the area, in modern terms, my wife and I can jump in our car in the middle of downtown Phoenix, and in an hour and a half, be in Globe these days. Rock Springs, which is as close as the modern world gets to Gillette, would add 45 minutes to the trip.... The trip today, uses the same basic route they would have traveled then.

[@cochisecounty_travels]

Thank you BBB for the story. It was fun for me to interview Brad and hear about Docs Travels. But even you added additional info that we did not discuss.

[@tmcking5252]

What a great piece....

[@jonkeathley3772]

Love these videos. Big fan and subscriber to true west mag. And would like to say thank you for keeping these stories alive and even more the continuos search for truth.

[@rachelbodzioch9695]

I did enjoy this story and didn't realize that you have a KZbin spot, I'll be here a lot more now.

[@TheCosmicRealm3]

I seriously love this guy and this channel. I love the old west era.

[@terryschiller2625]

Awesome video! Thank you Bob. I love Western history so much.

[@biglog5112]

I absolutely love your story telling and this one is no exception! Please do more and more often! 13:35

[@ExKUKicker]

I sure wish that you'd do a story on Rhowdy Joe Lowe out of Newton & Wichita (Delano District), Kansas? Saloon owner, gunman, and obnoxious character of the Kansas Old West History. Keep up the Great stories, Bob!🤠

[@ArizonaGhostriders]

Nice work.

[@Bossladyone2]

Love your stories. Lived near Williamson Rd in Prescott. Watched a young couple get chased by wild pigs in downtown Prescott, hung out at the yogurt shop. loved the history time line on library sidewalk. Had a creepy feeling that I was being watched out of the corner of Bucky O Neill's statue's eye. Now we do a Costco run every now and then. I wonder what Doc and the Earp's would think about places like that?

[@bradcourtney6615]

There's money in it. They would love it lol

[@tonywoodward486]

Great stuff Bob. Keep up the good work,

[@skyedog24]

Thank you Bob who would have thought there was more information that we hadn't already gleaned from every movie that we've seen 🤣🤣great stuff🤠

[@ginnywalker184]

So interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[@Mikey420isTaken]

Thanks Bob, I love your content

[@r0de0]

Great story, thank you for sharing!

[@Wingman115]

Bob quite entertaining and great information. Thanks always for sharing.

[@RavenGent]

Niiiice! I will get the magazine. My man Doc really knew how wabder before coming to tombstone to join wyatt and his party. 🎩

[@kevinclipner1217]

Sounds like we need a Doc Holliday Western

[@asamcbrez4930]

History has no fathers and only Authors, whomever fathers the quote apparently owns the History. The truth owns the history, thank you Bob for seeking the truth.

[@mercedithcompala8148]

Love your wonderful stories 👋🪶

[@alanhope1190]

First rate! Thanks.

[@FlyingDutchmanCoins]

Great video!

[@hoosierdaddy2308]

Great stuff. ❤❤❤

[@Cactusflattmediaphotography]

BBB!! So great man!!

[@maverickweldiing8621]

It always amazes me the amount of traveling those people did

[@evankro]

Bob, have you mentioned what hat you wear? Would love to know! Thanks for these videos, they're always a welcomed watch.

[@bobbell7213]

That, my friend is a custom Beaver Brank 20X hat, but i have many more from Arizona Hatters to Greeley Hat Works and Optimo in Bisbee.

[@evankro]

@bobbell7213 thank you, sir! I'll have to check out those establishments next time I'm out west!

[@iceblue6971]

Great story. Cheers

[@Dano_in_Texas]

Thanks for providing such descriptive information! I love this stuff! Can anyone settle the argument that has popped up in the last decade or two, on social media... about script accuracy in the Tombstone movie? Specially, Doc Holiday's line "I'm your huckleberry." The recent argument is that he actually said (in the movie) "I'm your huckle bearer"... infeering that he'd be happy to be a palbearer at (Johnny Ringo's) funeral. Val Kilmer has stated that "I'm your huckleberry" is what the script reads. My question is, is there any historical evidence that he would have used EITHER term? Or did Hollywood find a popular term of the day, and just assumed... or decided... that it would be really cool, or even fitting, for Kilmer's version of Doc to say it?

[@roberthagedorn290]

I can only try to imagine the joy experienced by someone of those times when traveling by train for the first time after suffering through years of bouncing along in a crowded stagecoach. Long stagecoach trips must have been nightmares, especially when someone needed to relieve himself or herself.

[@Gr3g3r9]

Have you done anything on John Wesley Hardin?

[@sixgunmiller6198]

BOB YOU REALLY SHOULD VISIT GRIFFIN GEORGIA. I HAD A 38 PAGE PAPER I DONE FOR RESEARCH THERE. UNFORTUNATELY I DON'T NO WHERE IT IS,.BUT IF I CAN FIND IT I'LL SEND IT TO YOU

[@philheath9854]

Did the Acting Govenour (?) mention in any Memoir about rooming with Holiday ?

[@bradcourtney6615]

That would have been cool. When the Tombstone drama was going on in 1881-82, I could not find any mention anywhere from anyone about the two of them being former housemates.

[@toddbowles8201]

Globe is also a nice place to visit.

[@Gamer_1745]

I live in Prescott, nice local history.

[@norencenelson8111]

Stage coaches weren't know for their great ride or comfort. Sheesh, that buckboard sounds like riding a bicycle with a chapped ass. Interesting info, Bob. Thanks

[@davidfolts5893]

Thank you very kindly. It will be interesting to see how AI can reveal more history in the coming years, almost like time traveling back.

[@tempo529]

1:59 cue the lizard lower left!

[@bobbell7213]

Man, you have a good eye! You are correct. that is a lizard. How in the hell did you catch that? I tried to get a photo of it, but it's too blurry.

[@Sirharryflash82]

No doubt, Doc lived an interesting life.

[@thellreed3593]

Kevin Jarre with Jeff Morey's recommend advise hired me for "Tombstone"

[@JoyCelebrating]

Bob, do you know if that train route ran from Arizona all the way to South Dakota?

[@PaulShaw-ex7ri]

Hey Bob , my dad told me about a filling station that used to cut peoples fan belts. That might have been your Dads outfit 👍

[@tba1879]

Hey Bob--love your videos! I once read (heard?) that after the O.K. fight Doc returned to his room with Kate and started crying. Is this true?

[@jsfbr]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@davemoore6690]

Bob, What is your pet lizard's name? You can see him in this video stopping by the stove at about minute 2 of the video...

[@rickykeim2005]

I always like to know the More Human sides of these People who have become Mythical Figures it's very interesting trying to find the real Person within the Stories.

[@rexfrew5392]

Makes me want to buy a lever operated rifle! 😂 Cool stuff! Thanks!!!

[@AA-gj3kt]

👍👍!!!

[@gsr4535]

👍

[@bthompson1767]

Soon ppl will see a new photo of Mattie And Doc together

[@larry1824]

Didnt kill anyone till Tombstone. Ed Bailey survived being stabbed

[@Bumper776]

Was that your pet lizard that scampered along the left side of the screen around the 2-minute mark?

[@bobbell7213]

Dang, not sure how you spotted this, but there is a lizard prancing across the flagstone where my Big Bug Creek Pot Bellied Stove sits. Good eye!

[@Bumper776]

@@bobbell7213 I was a lawman for 27 years, the last four was as an elected county sheriff. I always looked for details.

[@johnbeechy]

sounds like Doc paid his debt, using the earnings from his gambling ventures. hmm i do not recall Doc owing debts. at least not one unpaid. makes sense Doc would pay his bills, even if the coach was open air and Long duck trip going east. thanks for the drop.

[@bradcourtney6615]

He owed a carpenter named Ward in Las Vegas, NM, for work done on the saloon he co-owned for a short period. Paid it off on April 24, 1880, before heading back to Prescott. He also faced fines for illegal gambling and gun-toting, The charges were dropped, but to Doc's credit he showed up in court, and traveled a long way to do so.

[@johnbeechy]

@@bradcourtney6615 thank you for the details. i have watched, listened to many audio as well, many a video on Doc. there never seemed to be any rep for Doc not paying his bills. This video here shows more evidence of Doc paying off his bills, regardless of the cost of travel, or the threat to his health. makes Doc seem a honorable man with intent to back up his word with acts. thanks for reaffirming the memory of a Man that did back up his friends. God Bless and if u ever have to have a dentist attend to u, u share the same stories of Doc's honor. i have tried to stay away from dentists, especially any dentist that does not carry a gun or does not play cards.

[@lonecowboy99]

Is there any truth to John Henry Holiday fathering 5 children with big nose Kate and if so why hasn't anything been said about them? Who raised them? Did they ever know their father.

[@bradcourtney6615]

He had no children.

[@dwightcurrie8316]

Doc was Nobody's "Puppy Dog", and Denver, not Prescott is "The Mile High City"....Just saying

[@gus473]

Nah, Prescott is the real deal. Denver is high, however. ಠಿ⁠_⁠ಠ

[@bradcourtney6615]

@@gus473 5380 feet elevation. We often also call our town The Mile High City. :)

[@PaulShaw-ex7ri]

5,280 feet is the requirement

[@bradcourtney6615]

@@PaulShaw-ex7ri Like Denver, I am sure at some point in the town the requirement is met lol. But we can be the One Mile Plus 100 feet town if Denver is not willing to share :)

[@bradcourtney6615]

@@PaulShaw-ex7ri I misspoke. Officially we are at 5319 feet. So close! I wonder where they measure from :)

[@clints7834]

You're starting your story half way through his life. He's killed about 5 men before your story even begins. Why start in Vegas when his beginning is in Georgia, Dallas, Trinidad back to Dallas and on up through the Wyoming territory before all that OK Coral business.

[@artisaprimus6306]

My favorite historian.

[@johnbeechy]

i prefer boarding rooms over renting a hotel room. the Boarding Houses usually come with a nice old lady that can cook and takes pride in her cooking. hotels being owned usually by men, with men telling the cooks what to do, not knowing in the WEST, the Cook knows Best. trail cooks are like small g gods, if they can make good biscuits.

[@bradcourtney6615]

Well said :)

[@JackHawkinswrites]

Galavanting galoot. BBB, you certainly have a way with words, to be sure