Holliday, Doc

Holliday, Doc
orig. John Henry Holliday

(baptized March 21, 1852, Griffin, Ga., U.S.
died Nov. 8, 1887, Glenwood Springs, Colo.) U.S. gambler and gunman.

After graduating from dental school in 1872, he moved to the drier climate of the West to help treat his tuberculosis. After practicing dentistry briefly in Dallas, Texas, he took up gambling, and he began drifting throughout the West, finally settling in Tombstone, Ariz., in 1880. There he joined Wyatt Earp and his brothers in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1881). Having earned a reputation as a gunman, he resumed his drifting; five years later he died of tuberculosis at age 35.

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▪ American frontiersman
byname of  John Henry Holliday 
baptized March 21, 1852, Griffin, Ga., U.S.
died Nov. 8, 1887, Glenwood Springs, Colo.

      gambler, gunman, and sometime dentist of the American West.

      Holliday was reared in Georgia in the genteel tradition of the Old South, graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1872, and, already consumptive, moved west for drier climes. He practiced dentistry briefly in Dallas but soon discovered his prowess as a gambler, a poker and faro player, and began drifting throughout the West—Jacksboro, Texas; Pueblo and Denver, Colo.; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Deadwood, S.D.; Dodge City, Kan.; Trinidad and Leadville, Colo.; and Las Vegas, N.M., ending up in Tombstone, Ariz., in 1880. During the period he gained a reputation as a drinker, fighter, and killer; he also probably married one Kate Elder (Elder, Kate) (q.v.).

      Holliday had befriended Wyatt Earp (Earp, Wyatt) in Dodge City and, when in Tombstone, joined the Earp brothers in the celebrated gunfight at the O.K. Corral against the Clanton gang. From then (1882) on, he was again a drifter (having abandoned Kate Elder) and died five years later in Glenwood Springs, Colo., where he had gone for treatment of his tuberculosis.

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