While Holliday was in jail and the mob was outside engaged in lynch talk, Big Nose Kate supposedly set fire to a barn. The burning building distracted the mob. Then Kate slipped into the jail, brandishing two six-shooters at the terrified jailer. She had horses ready, and she and Holliday rode off to Dodge City, Kan. No newspaper articles or court records tell of such an incident. Also, he was not locked in jail, as the town had no jail at that time.
Holliday was being held in a hotel room under guard. Kate actually did set fire to a shed behind the hotel as a diversion and did free Doc.
John H. The local paper carried his ad:. Holliday, Dentist, very respectfully offers his professional services to the citizens of Dodge City and surrounding county during the Summer. Office at Room No. Where satisfaction is not given, money will be refunded. Big Nose Kate coped with the shackles of respectability for about three months before she cast them off and returned to the bright lights of the saloons. Doc was livid with anger at Kate for using the name Mrs.
Holliday and for making such a spectacle of herself. Her shenanigans were a terrible blow to his pride. Doc lost his desire to practice dentistry, and down came his shingle. Kate eventually took off for parts unknown, and Doc, feeling free and easy, headed for H. It seems that two Texas cattlemen, Ed Morrison and Tobe Driscall, along with 25 Texas cowhands, were taunting Wyatt and were about to shoot him. At the last possible moment, Doc jumped in, a revolver in each hand.
During this distraction, Wyatt Earp regained his gun and pistol-whipped Morrison. Despite the overwhelming odds in their favor, the other Texans complied with the order.
One report said that 50 revolvers were picked up from the street, which suggests that virtually every one of the Texans was a two-gun man. The Dodge City newspapers did not report any such incident, and there is no record of any large number of cowboys being arrested at one time. More likely, Earp was arresting three cowboys, one of whom was trying to pull an out-of-sight pistol on Wyatt, when Holliday jumped up from a nearby poker table and dealt himself in, making the would-be gunman re-evaluate the situation.
In any case, Earp always said that Holliday had saved his hide that day. On his way to Colorado Territory, Holliday is said to have become involved in an argument with two gamblers — an argument that he won by killing both men. And once in Trinidad, Colorado Territory, he supposedly got into a gunfight with an elusive gunman named Kid Colton.
Legend, of course, has Doc also shooting Colton graveyard dead, thus adding another mythical notch to his gun. But, once again, no newspaper account or court record has surfaced that makes any mention of those two incidents.
In the railroad construction camp of Otero, Doc is said to have killed yet another argumentative but unidentified soul, who was planted in the local cemetery. As expected, there is no record or evidence whatsoever of such an incident. Bat Masterson added fuel to the Holliday legend when he gave an interview to the Arizona Weekly Citizen on August 14, Always prone to enlarge the facts in making his own life story a colorful extravaganza, Masterson did the same where Holliday was concerned.
Holliday had run White, a bartender, out of Dodge and told him that if he ever saw him again, he would kill him. They shoot and shoot with no one scoring a hit. Finally, Charley White is down! When he regained his senses he packed his belongings, went back to Boston and never came West again. No newspaper account or court records were found to verify that such a gunfight ever took place.
But even if it did happen, Doc Holliday, the dangerous cold-blooded killer, still had not killed anyone yet. Holliday left Las Vegas for Arizona Territory in the fall of In Prescott, he had a fantastic run of luck at the poker tables. Big Nose Kate joined him. Under those circumstances, they got along just fine. In Tombstone, Holliday found living quarters for Kate and himself sandwiched between a funeral parlor and the Soma Winery, on the north side of Allen Street at Sixth Street.
His friend Wyatt Earp had arrived in the boom town the previous December. The so-called Cowboy faction had had things its way in Tombstone for quite some time. Cochise County Sheriff John Behan usually saw things their way.
Joyce had Holliday put out of the saloon, but the Deadly Dentist soon came back, revolver in hand. Joyce fired one shot that missed, then hit Doc over the head with his revolver. A law officer named Bennett then appeared on the scene and separated the men. The defendant offered a plea of guilty to assault and battery. It was accepted and the charge of assault with a deadly weapon was dismissed. Although they lived together, Doc concentrated on his drinking and gambling and Kate concentrated on her drinking and other duties as a saloon woman.
When together, they mostly quarreled. Kate became loud and abusive when drunk. Doc finally decided that he had had enough and threw her out. The price on his head was large and carried a big reputation.
He had a strong relationship with Wyatt Earp. Wyatt and Doc would become friends after Doc shot down the two men who had planned to hang him. They later would become most famous for their showdown at the O. No one succeeded in killing Doc in all his years including the law. Although he claimed that he almost lost his life nine times, four attempts to hang and ambushed five others. He spent his last fifty-seven days in bed. On November 8, , he awoke and asked for a glass of whiskey.
It was given to him and he drank it down with enjoyment. Josie Earp. Morgan Earp. Wyatt and Josie. John Henry Holliday. Behan only laughed. However, the Cowboys were surprised when the Earps showed up and Doc was with them.
As they made their way to the O. Corral , witnesses said that the three Earp brothers were all dressed in black with firm, mean grimaces on their faces while Doc was nattily clad in grey and was whistling. Where the two forces finally met was actually 90 yards down an alley from the O. The Earps passed by the O.
Corral but cut through the alley where they found the troublemakers waiting at the other end. As a senior officer, he displayed only a non-threatening walking stick, having given his shotgun to Doc to carry.
The rustlers tightened and Morgan and Doc simultaneously braced for action. What happened next was a blur, occurring in about 30 seconds. Billy Claiborne ran as soon as shots were fired and was already out of sight. Ike Clanton, too, panicked and threw his gun down, pleading for his life. But, Ike then withdrew a hidden gun firing one more round towards Wyatt before disappearing. Doc instantly countered, blowing Tom away with blasts from both barrels of his shotgun.
Wyatt responded by sending several rounds into Billy. Then it was silent and the townspeople ran from their homes and shops, wagons were to convey wounded Morgan and Virgil to their respective homes, and doctors followed.
Virgil Earp took a shot to the leg and Morgan suffered a shoulder wound. As Wyatt stood, still stunned, Sheriff Behan appeared advising him he was under arrest. The Earps and Doc Holliday were tried for murder but it was determined that the Earps acted within the law.
On January 17, , a supposedly famous confrontation took place between Wyatt , Doc and John Ringo. Many writers would say that John Ringo challenged the Earp brothers and Holliday. But, this cannot possibly be true as Virgil and Morgan were incapacitated with painful wounds from the shoot-out. The Earps also knew that Ringo had been drinking heavily and that the whiskey was talking.
A shot was fired from the darkness of the alley striking Morgan in the back. Earp sought vengeance on the men who shot Virgil and killed Morgan and killing Stilwell was just his first step, and Doc Holliday rode beside him all the way. Wyatt heard that Pete Spence was at his wood camp in the Dragoons and on March 21, , he and his men quickly headed out, finding not Pete Spencer, but Florentino Cruz.
The frightened Cruz named all the men who had murdered Morgan, himself included. Earp and his men filled Cruz with bullet holes. A gunfight ensued where Curly Bill was killed and Johnny Barnes received a wound from which he eventually died.
In May , Wyatt and Doc left Tombstone , swearing they would never return, but still vowing vengeance on Ringo , Clanton, Spence, and Swilling if they could ever find them. Riding their horses to Silver City, New Mexico , they sold them, rode a stage to Deming, and boarded a train for Colorado. Shortly after his arrival in Denver, Doc was arrested by a man named Perry Mallan.
Some people thought that Perry Mallon was actually a brother to Johnny Tyler, a foe of Holliday and a would-be gunman that Doc ran out of Tombstone.
On May 22, , while Doc was in jail, the Denver Republican printed the following:. He had been the terror of the lawless element in Arizona , and with the Earps was the only man brave enough to face the bloodthirsty crowd which has made the name of Arizona a stench in the nostrils of decent men.
Mallan told the paper that he was standing alongside when Curly Bill Brocius was killed. Our escape was miraculous. The shots cut our clothes and saddles and killed one horse, but did not hit us. Wyatt Earp turned loose with a shotgun and killed Curly Bill. The eight men in the gang which attacked us were all outlaws, for each of whom a big reward has been offered…If Mallan was alongside Curly Bill when he was killed, he was with one of the worst gangs of murderers and robbers in the country.
Doc left Denver, supposedly traveling to Pueblo, Colorado. However, on July 14, , when Doc Holliday was allegedly still in Colorado, John Yoast, a teamster in Arizona Territory, discovered a body intertwined among the branches of an oak tree east of the Dragoon Mountains.
A bullet had entered the head in the right temple and exited through the top of the head. The body turned out to be John Ringo, sworn enemy of Doc Holliday. Though Bat Masterson , Warren Earp and some newspaper friends attempting to create an alibi, claimed that Doc had never left Colorado, the truth was Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday had returned to Arizona. Ringo had been spotted by the group and next, he was found dead. Leadville, Colorado in by William Henry Jackson.
Doc then headed to Leadville , where he led a quiet and uneventful life until the afternoon of August 19, Allen turned, intending to flee but tripped over the threshold, and pitching forward landed on his hands and knees. Reaching over the tobacco counter, Doc fired again, hitting Allen in the right arm.
In the following weeks, Morgan Earp was killed and Virgil Earp was permanently maimed by a group of unknown cowboys. In what has become known as the Earp Vendetta Ride , Holliday joined Wyatt Earp as part of a federal posse that pursued the suspected outlaws for over a year, killing four of them.
Holliday moved to Pueblo, Colorado, in April When Earp learned of the arrest, he arranged to have the request to extradite Holliday to Arizona denied. In the winter of , Holliday met his old friend Wyatt Earp for a final time in the lobby of the Windsor Hotel in Denver. Holliday spent the last year of his life in Colorado, dying of tuberculosis in his bed at the Glenwood Springs Hotel on November 8, , at age In an article, Wyatt Earp said of Holliday:.
He was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long, lean blonde fellow nearly dead with consumption and at the same time the most skillful gambler and nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew.
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