Tombstone’s Doc Holliday Is a Fearless Gunfighter Doc Holliday was a fearless, lethal gunfighter, driven by his terminal illness. His reckless courage and loyalty made him a key ally to the Earps.

For instance, Henry B. Holliday, John Henry “Doc” Holliday’s father, owned six slaves in 1860, according to the 1860 U.S. Slave Schedules (on Ancestry.com; subscription required), including ...

He developed a reputation as a skilled card player and a quick-draw gunfighter. Holliday's partnership with Earp led him to become involved in law enforcement conflicts, including the famous ...

Holliday, mythologized in books and movies as a notoriously doomed gambler and gunfighter who roamed the Wild West in the late 1800s, died in Glenwood Springs on Nov. 8, 1887, and is buried in the ...

Kelley Cox Post IndependentThe mystique of gunslinger Doc Holliday, who died in Glenwood Springs in 1887, ... His condition worsened over time, and is said to have contributed to Holliday’s ...

Bryan Burrough, the author of The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, recalls a time when expressing one’s preferred portrayal of Doc Holliday was character-defining barroom banter. “In ...

‘Doc’ Holliday spent time in Eagle Pass, San Antonio shortly before meeting Wyatt Earp The famed gunfighter was shaped by experiences in Texas — and by hard liquor — well before the O.K ...

The authenticity of a gun thought to be previously owned by Old West gunfighter Doc Holliday and recently purchased for $84,000 by the Glenwood Springs Historical Society has been put in to question.

Doc, drunk and sweaty and hollow-eyed, confronts Ringo as passively as possible, while musing out loud over whether or not he should hate his fellow gunfighter. He jokes, eyes still passive and ...