A dying man in a small Colorado boarding house. A frail body ravaged by tuberculosis. A final breath drawn on a cold November morning in 1887. That is where the legend of Doc Holliday ends— but this episode is where his real story begins.

This opening chapter plunges listeners into the world that shaped John Henry Holliday long before Tombstone, long before the O.K. Corral, long before he became the pale, deadly shadow at Wyatt Earp’s side. Using vivid historical detail and first‑hand accounts, Episode 1 traces Doc’s origins through the red clay of Georgia, the frontier tensions of the Old South, and the violent upheaval of the Civil War.

You’ll meet the people who forged him:

• Henry Burroughs Holliday, the stern, honor‑bound father who helped drive Cherokee families west at gunpoint and later fough ...