Description
In 1881, John Henry ‘Doc’ Holliday rose to infamy at the famous gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. But unlike his contemporaries: Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid and Jesse James, the details of Holliday’s life remained shrouded in mystery and controversy. Until now.
In this documentary, we trace Holliday’s roots from his life during the Civil War and Reconstruction Georgia, to dental school in Philadelphia, and onwards to the Wild West. We journey cross-country to seek out truths about the crimes leveled against him, his personal relationship and the final years of his life. It’s a story of the effects of the Civil War on a southern family. A story of scandal, of first love and lost dreams that turned a Southern boy into a Western legend
Interviewees
Dr. Gary Roberts is the bestselling author of Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. Emeritus Professor of History, Abraham Baldwin College, Dr Roberts is widely recognized as a historian of the American West and frontier violence. He has published more than seventy-five articles on Western history and co-edited a book on Georgia politics.
Professor Patrick Allitt is Cahoon Family Professor of American History. He was an undergraduate at Oxford in England (1974-1977), a graduate student at the University of California Berkeley (Ph.D., 1986), and held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Divinity School and Princeton University. At Emory since 1988, he teaches courses on American intellectual, environmental, and religious history, on Victorian Britain, and on the Great Books. Author of seven books (most recently A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism,2014), he is also presenter of eight lecture series with The Great Courses, includingThe Art of Teaching, The Industrial Revolution and the upcoming The American West.
Victoria Wilcox is co-writer of the documentary In Search of Doc Holliday, she is also the bestselling author of a trilogy of fiction on the life of Doc Holliday. Victoria is widely recognized as an expert on the history of Doc Holliday and his family.
Nelson Hagood is the narrator and executive producer of In Search of Doc Holliday. He is a veteran of the design and film industry in Atlanta. Over the course of several years Nelson has had the opportunity to have worked on popular TV shows such as The Walking Dead (and featured on The Talking Dead), Atlanta and The Vampire Diaries to name a few. Nelson is also an accomplished vocalist, his skills ranging from live performance to studio recording and producing. He has played professionally throughout the southeast, as far north as Philadelphia and New York, licensed songs to MTV and Adam & Eve Films.
Bill Dunn is the curator of the Doc Holliday Museum.
