"Im Your Huckleberry'' Doc Holiday fans. It an actual quote by him, or hollywood bs?

the ringo kid · Jan 2, 2016

"Im Your Huckleberry'' Doc Holiday fans. It an actual quote by him, or hollywood bs?

I was recently going through the few guns that reside with me. For some reason unkn to me, I swear I didn't see this when I was buying my Cimmarron ''Colt'' .45 earlier in 2015. An interesting find came in the box with the gun. I picked up the foam stuff and saw a large bumper sticker that came with it an it had the: "I'm Your Huckleberry'' quote with it. Anyway, is it proved that this is a Doc Holiday quote? or is that pure hollywood horse feathers?

GatorFarmer · Jan 2, 2016

It is from the 1993 film "Tombstone" where Val Kilmer plays Doc. Whether he ever said it in real life...shrug. There was no Boswell handy in the late 19th Century American West. I suppose Doc could have said it.
World Wide Words: Huckleberry suggests the word and phrase were in use around that time. So like any other common idiom, it would seem plausible for Doc to have used it in some context at some point.

Whether he killed Johnny Ringo or not is not known for sure, nor does anyone agree on much of what happened at the time.

cmort666 · Jan 2, 2016

I know I've said it a few times recently, mostly to anti-gunners (and Gestapo types) who directed impotent threats my way.

You've got to look the bully in the eye and say "no". No bully ever stopped being a bully because he got what he wanted BY being a bully.

keith44spl · Jan 2, 2016

I don't know if Holiday sad it or not, but it would bring the cream to the top if a feller did........

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bricker · Jan 2, 2016

Of course Doc Holiday said it. It sounds really cool, and besides that, they don't make stuff up like that just for movies.

snuffy51 · Jan 2, 2016

Great, ain't it.

No matter if it was true or not, I love western movies."I'm your Huckleberry". Did sound cool, didn't it. I would bet more than a few here have said it out loud more than once. My absolute favorite is Charles Bronson, Once Upon A Time In The West, "You brought two too many".

bglz42 · Jan 2, 2016

Not huckleberry. Huckle-Bearer. Old word for pall-bearer.

Rustyt1953 · Jan 2, 2016

Oh no! I've been saying it wrong.

I'll be in the corner.

bricker · Jan 2, 2016

bglz42 said:
Not huckleberry. Huckle-Bearer. Old word for pall-bearer.

Nope. Huckleberry sounds cooler. That's what I'm going with.

THE PILGRIM · Jan 2, 2016

That is an excellent line! I wish that I had said it!
On to a bigger issue- the red sashes that the Cowboys wore.
Did Arizona Cowboys really wear red sashes?
I know you Arizona guys are trendy and fashionable, but red sashes?

woolieworm · Jan 2, 2016

Oh no you mean I have to change my signature?

Smoke · Jan 2, 2016

It would have been way cooler I'd Johnny Ringo had looked at Doc and said "Come with me if you want to live"

da gimp · Jan 2, 2016

heck I thought it was Johnny Depp who said the " I'm your Huckleberry/Huckle Bearer" quote. By the way, on closed captioning, it comes up as Huckleberry... but since they get so much movie dialogue wrong when they caption it, that I'm not sure which it is/was...Also, I'm not very good on knowing the names of movie stars ....

Rustyt1953 · Jan 2, 2016

Ya knew it was coming.

Wee Hooker · Jan 2, 2016

Rustyt1953 said:
Ya knew it was coming.

All I know is if those red shash guys had come up against a gang of good guys like Huckleberry Hound, QuckDraw Mcgraw, El Kabong and Baba Looey, they would have never stood a chance

bglz42 · Jan 2, 2016

Urban Dictionary: huckle bearer

Hillbilly77 · Jan 2, 2016

bglz42 said:
Not huckleberry. Huckle-Bearer. Old word for pall-bearer.

It's still a hotly debated argument wether Val Kilmer said "huckleberry" or "hucklebearer" in the movie.

My ears can't tell the difference.

LTC · Jan 2, 2016

Doc, was given the majority of the memorable lines in Tombstone. "must be a peach of a hand", "your a daisy if you do", "you look like somebody just walked over your grave", " I'm not retired, I'm in my prime", "I've not yet begun to defile myself". I know there are others but they escape me right now.

I guess I'll have to watch Tombstone for the 10th time to pick a few more out. I love the movie.

LTC

meaneyedcatz · Jan 2, 2016

Don't know fi he said it but he did tell someone "your a daisy if you do".
Doc H. was a dentist and won awards for his dentures.
Since he was dying he loved confrontations and fights. What did he have to lose?

I am getting towards the end of the book "the last gunfight". It is about the fight at the OK corral. Very informative but could have been written a lot better. Long, slow and repeats itself several times.

6518John · Jan 2, 2016

For those fans of Doc Holliday I can't recommend more highly "Bucking The Tiger" by Bruce Olds, a historical fiction novel. "Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend" by Gary Roberts is an outstanding non-fiction treatment of Holliday. I believe Holliday to be one of the most fascinating men of the old West. I read that many historians believe that Val Kilmer's portrayal to be the most accurate of the man.

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