Part 1 of 2 - Doc Holliday

This is justin for Blood and Dust. I'm presenting this two part series as a little added bonus. I suppose you could say, we're gonna do it in a two part series, and I will say this. We try to keep this show family friendly, and we do that for a reason. We try to appeal to everybody for educational, for historical purposes. This particular series right here has a lot of swearing in it. All right, there's a lot of four letter words. So if you have a problem with that,

please turn it off right now now. If you want to know about the real Doc Holiday, I highly suggest you tune in, because you are really going to love this. I found him a loyal friend and good company.

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 nervoust speediest, deadliest man with his six gun I ever knew Wyat speaking of Doc Holiday, who was this man who could joke in the face of death, who actually asked his opponent to

shoot him. Doc Holiday was one whiskey soaked bullet spitting so on a thunder whose only saving grace was that he assuming dead. John Henry Holiday was born August fourteenth, eighteen fifty one, in Griffin, Georgia. He was born to a pretty well to do, an upper middle class family of English and Scottish descent. He was baptized March twenty first, eighteen fifty two, in

First Presbyterian Church of Griffin. His older sister did die in infancy. Her name was Martha Eleanora, which would have been the year before Doc was actually born. So when Doc was born, he ended up being the only child and his family was very just extremely happy. But Doc was born with pretty good birth defect. He was born with a cleft palate and a cleft lip, so he actually had to be fed from an eye dropper and a little tiny cup. His uncle, John Styles Holiday ended up doing the surgery to

correct it because he was a doctor. But he did suffer for a little bit of a speech impediment, you know, his southern drawl was said to be a little bit off, and his you know, mother kind of really was very protective of him, because back then, you know, something like that was seen as like bad breeding. I guess you could say. I mean, he ended up doing pretty well for himself. He had a very

notable family tree as well. Not to go off on a side tangent here, but I mean his doctor uncle John Styles Holiday, he built a Greek Revival house in eighteen fifty five in Fayette County, which is now a local museum. He had one relative, also named John Holliday, who is the founder of Holiday, Utah. He just happened to be a Mormon, which you know, to each their own, but he was part of the group that settled and ended up founding what is now known as San Bernardino, California

as well. So that's a pretty interesting little fact. Yeah, Doc ended up growing up pretty good. His mother would give him speech therapy. She was very protective of him. Like I had mentioned, she was worried about society, the community, you know, thinking down on their family, you know, thinking down of John. And that was their only child, so you know, she made it a point to work with him very, very hard. She taught him how to play piano by the you know, as

soon as he could reach the keys. She was given him piano lessons. So young John Henry Holiday, who would later become known as Doc, was a very good piano player as well. In his older years, he was described as being five foot ten inches tall, one hundred and forty pounds, and contrary to popular belief, he did not have dark hair. He had ash blonde hair, which is what Wyatt Earp described him ask and Virgil Earp's wife, who was Wyatt's brother. His wife Ali described him as having platinum

blonde, which was pretty cool. Little fact I didn't know. He did sport that very thick famous mustache. Most historians agree that the reason that he did sport that mustache is because of you know, to hide the scar from his cleft lip. So there was that a little bit about his family. His father was Henry Burrows Holiday. He was born in South Carolina. Now his dad probably had every fucking job under the sun. He was a businessman. He was a clerk of the county court. He was a pharmacist,

a lawyer. He was a sycamore tree planner who had like a tree nursery as well. He was responsible for introducing the pekin industry to Georgia. He could participated in the Cherokee Indian War in eighteen thirty eight. He was promoted to a major in the Mexican War in eighteen forty six. When he did return for the Mexican War, though he actually adopted and brought home a young Mexican boy who had been orphaned by the war. His name was Francisco Hidalgo.

Now Francisco is credited with teaching Doc how to use guns and knives at a very young age. Like, for those of you who don't know, Doc Holliday was very good with a set of knives. Francisco. You know, there's not much known about his history before Georgia, or even after Georgia for that matter. But he ended up dying of tuberculosis in eighteen sixty six, and then his father after that ended up serving in the Civil War.

In eighteen sixty one, he was a major in the twenty seventh Georgia Infantry and then after that he went on to be mayor of Valdosta, Georgia for two terms. I did read in a couple of places that he had served several back to back terms. The only thing that I could find in that most historians can also find is just two terms, one from eighteen seventy two to eighteen seventy three, the other one from eighteen seventy six to eighteen seventy

seven. His mother was Alice Jane McKee. She was also born in South Carolina. She was, you know, her family were from Scotland. Now, like I had mentioned previously, she was very very protective. She was giving him speech therapy. She helped him, you know, learn how to talk. She was very very adamant about that. And she had taught him piano from the time he could reach the keys, which is seriously cool. They were all about being, you know, Southern gentleman. But Doc was

a pretty hot tempered dude. I mean, you're gonna find out here, you know, we're going to separate the fact from fiction. Don't get me wrong, but Doc had a little bit of a temper on him. By eighteen sixty four, the family is moving around a lot, mostly because of Sherman's March to the Sea. While General Sherman is marching his troops through Georgia to the east, the holiday families trying to avoid being in the path and

basically getting their ship burned down and pillaged. Because that's pretty much what Sherman's men did. I'm actually pretty knowledgeable about Sherman's March to the Sea because I personally have an ancestor, my great great great grandfather on my father's side, served in the Civil War and was with Sherman on his march to the Sea. So, you know, it's really interesting if you get looking into that kind of thing. But like I said, that's on a whole other tangent.

They ended up in Bamis, Georgia. I don't know if it's Bemis or Bamis, which is about seven miles outside of Valdosta. Now, they ended up up settling in Valdosta on some land that was given to Henry Holiday for his part serving in the Civil War, and this would be in right around in eighteen sixty four. Now, shortly after they get to Valdosta, his mom, Alice, starts showing symptoms and she starts losing weight, starts having night fevers, a lot of coughing, and come to find out,

ended up being a consumption also known as tuberculosis. For those of you, I know, I've talked about consumption before, and I know a lot of people outside of the US aren't familiar with it consumption was tuberculosis, and basically it was called consumption because you know, originally they had thought that it consumed the body from within. Here's a fact for you. One out of every five deaths in the USA from the year eighteen hundred to eighteen seventy was because

of tuberculosis. Now, some of the stages. There were three stages. The one stage. The first one was you kind of had like a dry cough, you know, you had a pain in the chest and shoulders, and you would lose a little bit of weight. The second stage was coughing up mucus and sometimes blood. And the third stage was you would literally just be wrecked by this disease. I mean you would get skeleton skinny, and it seriously was a slow and very painful death. Now, you know,

she ended up dying on September sixteenth, eighteen sixty six. But the whole two years that she's dying of this, John is taking care of her. That's a hell of a thing for a thirteen fourteen, fifteen year old boy to go through. He was literally an only child. His mother took care of him. You know, it's just really really sad, To be perfectly honest, with you now. While his mom is dying, and even shortly after her death, he did to have a lot of family around. He

had huge family. Like I had said, they're very notable. They were. Most of them were within about the fifty mile range. One place he would often go is his uncle John's house, his uncle John styles holiday. Now, while he was over there, there was a woman named Sophie Walton. She was a young mulatto woman. She was the retainer of the household. I'm not gonna lie to you. Retainer of the household is pretty much

a fancy word for a fucking slave. So she's over there and she would always look out, you know, watch the kids play with them and stuff like that. And she is credited with being the person who taught Doc how to play cards. She taught a lot of games, but Sophie taught young John and all of his cousins this game called Skinning. Now, the original rules of this card game, Skinning were pretty much adapted by Pharaoh. As you go to listen on, you know, you'll come to find out that

Pharaoh is a very prominent card game. Later on in Doc's life, like I had mentioned, on September sixteenth, eighteen sixty six, when Doc was fifteen. His mom does die. When this happens, Doc just starts. He throws himself into school. He needs something to do to take his mind off. He took care of her for two years while she was dying. He watched her die. So he starts going to school, starts, you

know, doing that because before he was homeschooled by his mom. But on December eighteenth, just a few months after his mom dies, his dad, Henry remarries a woman named Rachel Martin. She was the daughter of a judge who was the neighbor. She was very young, she was only a few years older than Doc. Now, this pissed Doc off, and it could have possibly strained the relationship between him and his father going forward. It was tradition to have like a one year grieving period. Oh, Henry was right

back in the saddle. He didn't really waste any time, you know. And like I said, like Doc saw this as like disrespect to his mom. So it really strained their relationship. So now he even does anything to try to get away from the house as much as he can, and he starts going to school at a place called the Valdosta institute and what he learned there were, you know, subjects like rhetoric, grammar, history, math. Doc was said to be a very very good at math. He was

very good with the numbers. But he also learned languages. He could speak Latin, French, in Ancient Greek. All his peers said he was an extremely bright guy, and he excelled at school. He is super smart. Now, in eighteen seventy, when Doc was nineteen, he goes to the dental school in Philadelphia. So on March first, eighteen seventy two, Doc,

at the age of twenty becomes a doctor of dental surgery. And he actually wrote his thesis on diseases of the teeth, and he gets a degree from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, which is currently known as you know, the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. It's like a little department of that. He actually graduated five months before his twenty first birthday, so the school held his degree. You weren't allowed to practice dentistry until you were

twenty one. So, like I had said, Doc was a pretty smart guy. And I mean, don't get me wrong, not gonna lie. Probably didn't take much to be a dentist back in the mid to late eighteen hundreds. But still, I'm not going to take anything away from him because literally everybody that had anything to say about him being in school said he was exceptionally bright. So what he's doing while he's waiting for his degree is he goes to Saint Louis, Missouri, and he becomes an assistant for a classmate

that he had by the name of A Jamison Fuchias Junior. I don't know if his last name is Fuchias or Fuchs. It's fuc h e s. But you know, obviously there's no pronunciations on that, so I'll just say it all different ways so I don't fuck anybody over on their name, you know. So the end of July eighteen seventy two, he ends up going to Atlanta and he joins the dental practice of Arthur C. Ford, and he's pretty much waiting until he turns twenty one so he can open up his

own practice. What he's doing is he's waiting and he's trying to gain clientele while working with Arthur Ford. He's also living with his uncle and his family right there, so you know, it's kind of a nice little situation he's got. Now, Arthur c. Ford ends up going to a meeting out of town and reports that Doc is going to sub in his place. In the Atlanta Constitution. On July twenty six, eighteen seventy two, he pretty

much ran the following thing. Quote, I hereby inform my patients that I have to attend the session of the Southern Dental Association in Richmond, Virginia, and will be absent until about the middle of August, during which time doctor John h. Holiday will fill my place in my office, twenty six Whitehall Street, Arthur c fourd DDA end quote. Now around this time, there are a couple significant events that happened, one of which not much Unlike Jesse

James, Doc Holliday was more than likely a cousin fucker as well. You know, this wasn't uncommon. It was kind of acceptable in the you know, nineteenth century. It is what it is. It's kind of fucked up, but it's whatever. Like it happened because you know, to keep property within the family and money within the family and shit like that. I mean, look at royalty in Europe. I mean they were literally fucking their own

cousins all the time and shit. So, but he supposedly had a little bit of a romance with in his teens with his cousin Martha Anne Holiday. She was known as Maddie. She was the daughter of his uncle, Robert Kennedy Holiday. Now apparently this little romance sparks up again. Now the family even today will acknowledge that there was more than likely some sort of romance there. You know, some historians will argue that it was just a really good

friendship. I'm kind of gonna go with the family on that one, because if the family's going to go ahead and admit this, it's probably fucking true. All right. So they ended up having like a pretty good love affair from all my understanding, kind of creeped out saying that. But a little bit about Maddie, you know, after Doc ends up leaving, which we'll get to here in a minute, she joined a convent. She joined the

Order of the Sisters of Mercy. She became Sister Mary Melanie. A little cool thing about her was she was the inspiration for Miss Melanie and Gone with the Wind. Philip Fitzgerald, okay, which was an uncle in law of Robert Kennedy Holiday. He was the great grandfather of Margaret Mitchell, who wrote Gone with the Wind. Of the eight children born to Robert Kennedy Holiday and his wife, one was Martha and Maddie Holiday, which was sister Mary Melanie,

so miss Melanie ties in. But yeah, that's kind of a cool little fact. Their romance was. It was it was not looked at very highly in their family because Maddie was Catholic and one of the rules of I should you not. I can't even make this up. One of the rules of the Catholic families at this time was that you could not marry in the first degree. And what that meant was you can't marry a first cousin.

You can't have kids with a first cousin. You were allowed to marry and have kids in the second and third degree, which was which meant you know, you could you can fuck all the second and third cousins you want, like that's no big deal, but not a first cousin. That's strictly forbidden. So their family was very, very against their relationship and it did strain it supposedly from all I understood now, I will say this doc would always

speak so highly of Maddie. I know it's fucked up that you know it's his first cousin, but this was truly the woman that he loved and he would always love until the day he died. She ended up dying in nineteen thirty nine in the convent, and they kept correspondence letters. They corresponded like the entire life up until his death. As a matter of fact, like when he died, she was the person that they contacted to inform the rest

of the family. And when she ended up dying, she had previously destroyed like a lot of the letters after Doc died because she didn't want to ruin his reputation or make the world think differently of him, because he did have a reputation by the time he died. He had a crazy ass reputation, as you're going to come to find out. But you know, after Maddie ended up dying, her younger sister actually got the rest of the letters and

burned those two. She burned everything. She did keep the personal effects because after Doc died, she Maddie was the one who got sent all his personal effects along with the other half of the correspondence letters. So when Maddie ended up dying, her younger sister literally destroyed all the fucking letters. And it is stated by family even today that the reason she did that was because if the world had read those letters, they would have known a different Doc Holiday.

So it is really interesting to know what was in those letters, you know what I mean. But you know, that's how it goes. Sometimes that's history, you know, it's solid speculation. Now there is another incident that happens around this area that is still kind of debated. I like to believe the family's version of this, and not just because it's the better version, because it's the one that makes more sense. Basically, it's referred to

as the swimming hole incident. Now, one version of the story goes, and this version comes from bat Masterson. Okay, Now, bat Masterson was a famous lawman, just like Wyat eerb bat Masterson wrote a bunch of articles, did interviews, you know, wrote a bunch of memoirs in nineteen oh seven where he talks about Doc Holiday and he talks about this incident. But it should be known that bat Masterson was not a big fan of Doc Holiday.

He pretty much tolerated him because he was best friends with Wyat eerb and we'll get to that story of how that all happened here in a little bit too. But he's not a big fan. He talks very badly about Doc Holliday a lot. So it's hard to take into consideration, you know the fact that somebody who has so much contempt for you writing about you, Yeah, they're probably going to stretch the truth. I mean, bad Masterson was

known for stretching the truth anyway about himself, let alone Doc Holliday. So his version of the story is that Doc had told him okay, and Doc was known to embellish, not gonna lie. Doc was known to embellish, but he told him that. You know, right around this time period, him and some buddies went down to their favorite swimming hole and there was a group of African Americans. They're swimming in their spot. Well, Doc Holliday confronted them and said, hey, you know, why don't you guys get

the hell out of here? And then one of them snapped back and said, this river's wide enough, why don't you go somewhere else. Now, you got to remember, you know, this is after the Civil War. There's still a lot of tension right there. So Doc Holliday says, I'm going to get my gun. You guys better be gone when I get back.

So he goes, comes back double barreled shotgun, and supposedly he had he kind of got them to where they were in a group together and fired off rounds out of the double barreled killing anywhere from one to three of them. This, unfortunately, more than likely did not happen. The actual story from family members and also other contemporaries is that he was down there with his uncle and they were swimming and they did have, you know, a little

situation with some African Americans down there swimming in their spot. So his uncle hands him an eighteen fifty one Cult revolver, which ended up being a gun that Doc Holliday ended up keeping. His uncle told him, you know, fire above their heads, just scare him. And when he did that, you know, supposedly one of them shot back, but they did leave and then that was the end of the situation. You know, it's hard telling.

There were no newspaper accounts of this ever even happening. Even if he would have killed somebody, I'm not saying that because it was after the Civil War, because they were African Americans that it wouldn't have been reported on, but it's hard telling what happened right there. Personally, I believe the family side of the story just because it's more specific. It makes more sense, and that eighteen fifty one cult revolver is something that Doc did end up carrying

until about the late eighteen seventies. That was his gun of choice. So now by eighteen seventy three, Doc does have a successful practice only for a couple months. Doc finds out that he has tuberculosis. He starts showing the symptoms. He more than likely got it from his mom when he was taking care of her when she was dying. He goes and gets several opinions, and all of them said the same exact thing. At the age of twenty two years years old, John Henry Holiday is given no more than six months

to live. Now, they said, if he goes and he moves to a drier climate, he could possibly extend his life by about two years max. So in September in eighteen seventy three, Doc, at the age of twenty two, leaves for Dallas. Now this is when Maddie Holiday goes and joins the convent. Some people say that she would never love another man, so she decides to never, you know, engage with another man. Some other contemporaries think that her family was ashamed of the affair that she had with

her first cousin, so they forced her into the convent. I personally don't believe that, because even though this was the eighteen hundreds, you were still pretty much allowed to make your own decisions in your early twenties. And I mean, don't get me wrong. They came from a prominent family who probably did tell their kids what to do and they followed suit. But anyway you look at it, this is when Maddie joins a convent and Doc leaves for

Dallas. And the reason he goes to Dallas is because that was literally, at this time, the end of the fucking railroad to the South, and Dallas was like the last civilized part of the American West before you start getting

into the untamed frontier part of it. So he heads there. He opens up a dental practice with a friend of his dad's name, John A seeger Doc Holliday, who's actually not known as Dick until about eighteen seventy eight, but John Henry Holiday, he was a fucking really good dentist man like. He won awards for dental work at the annual Fair of the North Texas Agricultural,

Mechanical and Bloodstock Association. At the Dallas County Fair, he won prizes for best set of artificial teeth in dentalware and also an award for best gold teeth, Like can you imagine Doc Holidays out there making gold grills? Man? I don't know why, but I think that's just pretty cool. He also won an award for best teeth and Vulcanized Rubber, which isn't at all

what it sounds like now. The prizes for these were a nice plate and five dollars for each display, which eighteen seventy three man that what really wasn't that bad? But moving forward. On March second, eighteen seventy four, the Dallas Daily Commercial reported quote, upon mutual consent, the firm of Seeger and Holliday has dissolved. JH. Holliday will be responsible for the two debts against the firm. JA Seegar will remain at the old office over Cochrane's drug

Store, Elm Street. JH. Holliday's office is over the Dallas County Bank corner of Maine and Lamar Street end quote. Pretty much what was going on was their business started falling through. Like he was losing a lot of clientele. He was coughing at the wrong times because he had just found out he had tuberculosis, not you know, long before this, you know, he'd be doing feelings and extractions and be coughing on people. So, like,

his business gradually declined because people were fucking freaked out. They didn't want to get consumption or TV. So he started losing, you know, a lot of his clientele. It is around this time that Doc starts turning to gambling. He starts going into the nightlife. Now, since he was taught that card game when he was a kid. The popular game at the time was

Pharaoh. So he's going around gambling and he's really good with numbers because he was very good at math, and he's very good at shuffling cards and just card games and gambling in general. So he starts leaning towards this for his main means of support, to support himself because he has really nothing else now. Because of this, he also starts honing his skills with the knives and the guns he had to protect himself as a gambler in the West, not

only because he was sick, but he was also small and weak. You know, he wasn't a very big dude, hundred and thirty pounds at about this time, and you know, the West was a rough place for a guy who leaned on gambling as a profession. So he starts getting really really efficient with the guns and knives, and his pistol of choice at this time was a nickel plated Colt Revolver double action self cocker, and it was a

thirty eight caliber Lightning with a three and a half inch barrel. He would later go on to have a forty one caliber Thunderer made by Colt as well. But the reason that he chose the Lightning with the three and a half inch barrel and thirty eight caliber was because it was a lighter pistol. It had a shorter barrel, it had a smaller grip, It was a lot more easy to maneuver for him, for a guy with a smaller frame who was kind of weak, So it just kind of fit really really perfect.

Now. The first time Doc runs into a little bit of trouble was in late eighteen seventy four. He is indicted with twelve others on gambling charges, but not only that. On January second, eighteen seventy five, not long after the indictment for gambling charges, Holiday and a local saloon keeper in the area named Champagne Charlie Austin, they had a little bit of a disagreement over a card game. At the time, Doc was living in Dennis in Texas.

The Dallas newspaper when they reported it, they really didn't think it was that big of a deal. But how it went down was both men pulled their pistols. There was a lot of shots fired, not one's truck, anybody. I mean, there's lots of shots fired. Doc could actually shoot extremely fast because that pistol that I had mentioned was being a self cocker. You didn't have to cock it, you know, in order to fire a

shot, which was most of the pistols in the wild West. You could just pull the trigger repeatedly and it would just go off, you know, just bam bam, bam bam, super fast. So there's all these shots fired. Nobody got shot, not one person that was wounded. Both people were arrested. Doc has brought up on shooting charges and he is eventually found not guilty of shooting with intent to kill by a jury, but he was

found guilty and find in the gambling charges. Not too long after that, riding about spring of eighteen seventy five, Holiday supposedly shot and killed a prominent citizen and had to flee back to Dallas. Now there's no newspaper account of this ever happening. There's no death records, there's no court records, there's absolutely nothing. So a lot of people believe that this did not happen. Is you're gonna come to find out, Doc Holliday. In order to kind

of protect himself, he would tell a lot of tall tales. He would his reputation would hit a town before he did, and people did not fuck with him. You're gonna come to find out. Like when people found out that his name was Doc Holliday, they did not want anything to do with him. All he had to do is say his name and that was it. And he did that as a means of protection, not to make him self. Sounds so much better, but he did it because he knew he

was weaker than most people, like he had to do something. This was his only means of living was gambling, So you know, when he's in at these gaming tables with all these big ass dudes who literally killed people at the drop of a hat. Doc Holliday had to have something. He had a reputation. Now, in June eighteen seventy five, he does make it to Fort Griffin, Texas. Holiday was indicted by a grand jury for gaming in a saloon and there was a warrant issued for his arrest. He hurries

up in Skips Town. That's about the last we hear of him until sometime in eighteen seventy six he stops in Jacksboro, Texas. By this time he had gained a reputation as being known as the Deadly dentist, and that was partly because of his own stories and rumors and stuff like that that he was spreading about himself. Now in Jacksborough, he supposedly kind of enhanced that reputation

with three supposed gunfights. His tally at this point in time, which is accepted by a lot of people, was, you know, one gambler dead, two gamblers wounded, and one six cavalry men dead. There are no news paper accounts, court records, no army records that mentioned any kind of this shit, but bat Masterson does report at one point in time later on that Holiday was in Jacksboro to South Carolina and he got into a gunfight with

an unnamed soldier and Holiday supposedly shot and killed him. Oddly enough, there was a historian named Gary L. Roberts that did find a record for a guy who was known as Private Robert Smith who had been shot and killed by an unknown assailant. But Holiday was never linked to the death. So that's pretty you know, that's give or take. I'm not sure how I feel about that being fact, but it's pretty interesting that this that this historian did

track that info down. Now, still in eighteen seventy six, he goes to Denver, Colorado. He uses the alias Tom Mackie at this point, and that's kind of a spin on his mother's maiden names McKee. That brings up a lot of questions. If he was just running away from gambling charges, why would he have to change his name, you know, So that does lend a little bit of credit to the fact that he possibly did kill like at least one or two people around that time beforehand, because nobody's going

to change their name to escape gambling charges. It was literally a fine, and you're gonna come to find out, Doc Holliday gets arrested and fined for gambling a lot, but he ends up getting a job as a pharaoh dealer at John A. Bab's theater. Comique or comic. It's spelled c O M I que. I'm not sure how to pronounce it. Right Around this time, too, he supposedly gets into a knife fight and kills a guy

named Bud Ryan. There's two versions. Either he gets in a knife fight basically just cuts up Bud's face and neck real bad, scarring him for life. Another story says that he got into a knife fight with Bud Ryan and killed him. You know, there are no records for this. Karen Holiday Tanner, this is one book that I leaned on a lot for research. She wrote a book called Doc Holiday. A family affair, I believe is what it's called. She goes on to say, you know, that event

never happened. It was fabricated by a journalist who wrote for the Denver Republican after Doc's death. The false story appeared around Christmas of the year of Doc's death. Karen Holiday Tanner also notes again that bat Masterson would always readily perpetuate and fabricate stories to make Doc look more negative, look more like a bad

person, and he did this quite often. But in the article in the Denver Republican of June twenty, eighteen eighty seven, it does to hell of a young kid named Ryan who slashed the neck of a guy named Jack Brogan in a saloon called Moses's Home. So there was a slashing in Denver at this point in time, but it was much later on after Doc had died. Ryan was actually the slasher, and Holiday supposedly wasn't even involved or present

at the time, so there is that information. On February fifth, eighteen seventy six, after gold is discovered in Wyoming, Doc heads there. He settles in Cheyenne. He starts dealing Pharaoh in a place called Bella Union Saloon, which is owned by a guy named Thomas Miller. Now, after more gold is discovered in the Deadwood, which is part of the Dakota territory at

this time, he ends up moving that saloon to Deadwood. Doc goes with him and he pretty much just spends the winner playing poker and dealing Pharaoh. It is stated that Wyat Eerb is in Deadwood at this same time, but this is not where they actually cross passing meat yet. Going on from there, in early eighteen seventy seven, Doc goes back to Cheyenne. There is legends out there that say he killed three unidentified men before ending his visit.

No evidence that he killed anyone in Wyoming. Then he goes back to Denver, goes back to Kansas to visit an aunt of his, Then he goes back to Dennis in Texas, and then back to Breckinridge, Texas. And this is all about the span of about six months or so. The next time we see him pop up is on July fourth, eighteen seventy seven. In Breckinridge, he gets into a fight with a guy named Henry Kahn over

a card game. And Doc was known to carry around a walking stick because you know, he's kind of frailing week at times, so apparently because of this card game in this argument, Doc uses his walking stick to beat the ever living shit out of this guy named Henry Cohn. I mean, he severely beat him. Both of them were arrested and fined for gambling. As irony would have it, the end of the fight, that wasn't really it. Later that day, Henry khn shows back up and shoots Doc and seriously

injures him. As a matter of fact, in the July seventh Dallas Weekly Herald newspaper, they reported him as being dead. So Doc Holliday actually got to read an article about himself being dead. So that's pretty interesting. But one of his cousins by the name of George Henry Holliday actually moved down there from Georgia to help him recover. Once he did recover fully, he goes to Fort Griffin, Texas and starts dealing cards at a saloon by a guy

named John Chancey. Now this is where he meets big nosed Kate, who is a dancehall girl and occasional prostitute. And for all you sensitives out there who think prostitute is a derogatory term, I could be historically accurate right now and refer to her as a whore like I read in every single historical reference I read about her. But I'm actually being quite generous right now. But she was an occasional prostitute. She was only occasional prostitute because she viewed herself

as more of an independent woman. She didn't want to belong to like a house brothel. She didn't really want to pimp, and she didn't want to get married and belonged to any man, so she just kind of did her own shit. A little bit about her was she was christened Mary Catherine Heroni, also known as Kate Fisher, also known as Kate Elder. She was

the daughter of a Hungarian doctor. She actually ran away from home when she was sixteen because she was escaping a sexual abuse from an unnamed male relative. People who who wanted to talk down about Kate, they did refer to her his big nose Kate. She did have like a Roman nose or a hook nose, if you know what those are, but it wasn't really particularly large or prominent by really any standards. Basically how it all worked out, this

was, you know, the feature that did earn her the name. But Ali Rp, who was the wife of Virgil Earp, who was why it's a brother, claimed that, you know, this is why they called her big nosed Kate. Now, Kate herself never used that name, Doc never called her that. The Earp family called her that because her in the Earp

family did not get along very well. So there's actually a lot of argument about whether or not she even had a big nose or not, and whether or not she was another woman who was referred to his big nose Kate because she was always sticking her nose into other people's business. Because there's two separate pictures who have been associated with big nosed Kate, people get the two pictures

confused. One of them's right, one of them's wrong. But I'm gonna lean more towards the Earp family, you know, just because they really don't have anything to gain or lose from this, and they probably know better than anybody else because they actually knew her. So she was described as being tough, stubborn, and fearless. She was actually very educated. She was a very smart woman, and like I had said, she chose to be a

prosecute because she liked her independence. And she is the only woman who Doc Holliday is known to have had a relationship. I mean, she was pretty much his common law wife. She was referred to. They actually when they would check into boarding houses, they would be you know, they would sign in as mister and missus Doc Holliday so or John Henry Holiday. So. Don't get me wrong. They had some fights they had a very tumultuous relationship.

But you know, the simple fact of the matter is Doc was even quoted as saying, you know that she was his intellectual equal because she was so well educated, and Doc was super educated as well. So I thought that was pretty cool, all right. Now, moving forward to about October of eighteen seventy seven, outlawed Dirty Dave Ruta Ball, who got the nickname Dirty Dave because he refused to bathe. He robs a Santa Fe railroad construction

camp, and he was fleeing south. A guy named Wyatt Earp, who was given a temporary commission as Deputy US Marshall, left Dodge City following route Ball over four hundred miles, which was six hundred and forty kilometers, and he ends up tracking him all the way to Fort Griffin. So Earp goes into a place called the Beehive Saloon, which is the largest in town in its owned by John Chancey. So John Chancey and Herb had been friends since

they were younger. They had been friends a long time. And he goes in and asked Chancey. You know, He's like, hey, like, I'm tracked this guy to here. Have you seen him you know, I need info on him. I'm tracking him. And Chancey tells why at Earp that Dave Rutaball had passed through town earlier in the week and that he did not know where he was headed, and Chancey suggested that he asked this gambler named John Henry Holiday. Holiday had played cards with Ruta Ball earlier in the

week, and Wyatt was pretty skeptical about talking to Doc Holiday. It was very well known that Doc hated lawman, so you know, he finds them later that evening at Chancey's and he was actually surprised at Doc's willingness to talk to him. And Doc was actually quoted as saying about dirty Dave Ruta Ball. Dirty Dave is an ignorant scoundrel. I disapprove of of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions, but self control got the

better of me. Holiday pretty much tells wide Earth that Ruta Ball was more than likely headed back to Kansas. Now, this is the very first time that Doc and wide Earp do meet. Their relationship at this point is more of a relationship of necessity. You know, they're not really friends. Doc Holiday hated Dirty day of Ruta Ball a little bit more the lawmen, so you know, wide Earp was cool with the information. So while in Fort

Griffin, Holiday's killer legend also has him claiming another victim. At about this time. A story goes that while playing poker, guy named Ed Bailey kept sifting through the discards, which was highly illegal in the game of Pharaoh. Holiday warned him a couple of times, but Bailey pretty much ignored him,

kept doing it just to piss him off. So the next time Bailey did it, Holiday just packed up the pot, put his cards down without showing his hand, scooped up all the money without saying a word, which was pretty much the rules. That's how it worked. If somebody started looking at the discarded cards, so Bailey pulls out a revolver, but Holiday whipped out his knife, went to work, slashed him across the stomach. You know, blood spills out everywhere. Bailey falls across the table didn't even get a

shot off. Doc didn't run because it was self defense and he knew that now. The dead gambler apparently had some friends, and when Holiday was arrested, he was arrested. He was put in jail. A lynch mob begins to form. Now, while Holidays in jail, the moms outside and they're doing their thing, talking about what's going to happen. What happens is big nose. Kate supposedly sets fire to a barn or a shed and holding a gun to a jailer. The burning building pretty much just drafted all the mob.

Then Kate slipped into the jail, pulls out two six shooters, points him at the jailer. She already had horses waiting outside, and her and Doc Holliday rode off to Dodge City, Kansas and got the fuck out of town. Now, this is a really, really cool story, but it's probably only partly true. There's no newspaper articles or court records of any of this shit ever happening, except for the fact that Holiday had been arrested for illegal gaming again, not for killing a guy named Ed Bailey, and he

wasn't locked in a jail. The town didn't even have a jail at the time. He was under like a form of house arrest. He was being held in a hotel room under guard. Now, Kate really did set fire to a shed behind the hotel as a diversion, and did fre dock so that part is true, which is that's a ride or die chick right there. Man, That is awesome. So they literally got out of town.

They go to Dodge City. While in Dodge City they register at Deacon Cox's boarding house as doctor and missus John H. Holiday, and there just happens

to be no dentist in town. So Doc kinda hangs out the sign and he's like, you know, in eighteen seventy eight, he puts out an ad in the paper and it just says dentistry John H. Holiday, Dentist very respectfully offers his professional services to the citizens of Dodge City and surrounding county during the summer office at Room number twenty four Dodge House, where satisfaction is not given money will be refunded. So he's actually trying to start open another

business, trying to kinda go straight make a legitimate living. You know, he's pretty much got Kate under his name, so they're trying to be like respectable citizens, even though he's already got this crazy ass reputation anyway, So on September twenty fourth, eighteen seventy eight. Now this is according to a

book called I Married Wider by a guy named Glenn Boyer. What happened was early in eighteen seventy eight, RB had run off a couple of cowboys by the name of Toby Driscoll and Ed Morrison out of Wichita, Kansas Now on September twenty fourth, eighteen seventy eight. The two cowboys, they had supposedly a couple dozen men with them. They ride into Dodge. They shot up the town. They're galloping up and down front Street and they walk into the

Long Branch Saloon. They vandalized the place. They started harassing a bunch of customers. So Wyatterer, here's the commotion. He burst through the front door, and you know, before he could react, there's twenty cowboys standing there pointing their guns at him. You know, that's one verse. Another version is there were only three to five cowboys, but either way, he was

outnumbered. In both versions of the story. Doc Holiday was sitting in the back room playing cards and he starts hearing the commotion going on, and he had recognized, you know, wyat Earp from when they had met before. So what he does is he creeps up behind the gang's leader, which was Ed Morrison, and he pulls out his pistol, puts it to Morrison's head,

tells him to disarm. He tells all the guys to disarm. Now, supposedly one of the men decided to try to be a quick trigger, pulls out a gun, Doc shot him without a hesitation and pretty much saved wyat Earp's life. You know, there's no technical account of any such confrontation being reported by any kind of Dodge City newspapers, so it's it's hard telling

if that part of the story happened. There's another little side story that says, you know, whyatt was arresting three cowboys, one of whom was trying to pull an out of sight pistol, one that was hidden like behind him and his in his belt, and Holiday jumped up from a nearby poker table and cocked the pistol, put it to his head, and the dude dropped his pistol and either way saved why it's life. Now, either way you know that happened, We're not one hundred percent sure, but whatever did happen,

he did draw his pistol and fended off any kind of attackers. That why it would have had and you know this incident may have been why Earp, you know, would always later praise Doc's speed and adeptness with a gun. He would always say, He's, like, dude, that guy is the fastest draw man. He's good with a pistol. And I don't think somebody like whyat Earp would say that just to say that because of his own

reputation, But either way you look at it. Whya Earb credited Holiday was saving his life that day, and that seamented their friendship right there forever and okay, corral in quest in eighteen eighty one, wide Earp actually said, I am a friend of Doc Holliday because when I was a city marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, he came to my rescue and saved my life when I was surrounded by desperadoes. So I mean, it's it's a definite fact

that Doc Holliday did save wide Earp's life. And because of their friendship, Doc starts associating himself with these lawmen, you know, White Earp and Bat Masterson, and he actually helps them on several occasions, and he helps them and they help Doc, you know, so they help him get out of

trouble every now and then. It's kind of a fair thing. So it's not totally out of the realm of possibilities to dismiss that Doc Holliday was this good with a pistol Right around this time as well, Big knows Kate, she kind of starts getting bored. Unfortunately, she starts going back to the saloons and dancing. Doc was pretty pissed off about this because she's still carrying around the name missus John Holiday, and she's out here, you know,

trying to be a show girl and kind of hurt him. You know, it hurt his pride a little bit. He really didn't want to practice dentistry anymore, you know, so like he's at a little bit of a turning point, you know, so he took down, you know, as dental cherry did. He didn't do that anymore. Kate ended up leaving him. She took off for parts unknown. Nobody knows where she went for a while, and Doc himself actually took off too. He ended up going for Leadville,

which was in the Colorado Territory at the time. Now here's a couple more stories. On his way to Colorado Territory, Holiday is said to have become involved in an argument with two gamblers an argument that he won by killing both men. Once in Trinidad, Colorado Territory, he supposedly got into a gunfight with another gunman named Kid Colton. You know, the story has Doc shooting Colton, just straight up dead, so he's got another notch on his

gun. But again, there's no newspaper account or court records. Nobody else mentioned these two incidents. You know, not to argue that fact, because that is a good fact, because I do work on facts. I work on documented evidence. But again, we have to think this is the late nineteenth century in the West. If two men are out in the middle of nowhere and one shoots another one, there's no newspaper that's going to report it.

There's no court document that's ever gonna show it. Dude's gonna lay out there dead and he's gonna decompose, and nobody's ever going to know except for the other guy. So I absolutely fucking hate it when they discredit a lot of these stories based on that phrase right there, because they do that shit all the time. I always say, there's no court documents, you know, there's no newspaper articles. Yeah, that's cool, But when you're on

the side of a fucking mountain. There's not a newspaper office there, So you as a listener just kinda got to keep that in mind. There's two ways to think about that. While Doc is leaving Colorado, he's on his way to Las Vegas and New Mexico territory. In eighteen seventy nine Holiday, which you know, according to legend, killed some more people. He was at a railroad construction camp called O'taro. Doc is said to have killed another

person who pretty much he just left out there to decompose. Like I said, all historians say, there's no record, no evidence whatsoever such an event. It could have happened, it could not have happened. We don't know. There's only one person who knows whether or not it happened. So a little bit before Christmas in eighteen seventy eight Holiday and Big Nose Kate they are

back together. They both arrived in Las Vegas, New Mexico. There are supposedly twenty two hot springs near the town that were said to have favored individuals with tuberculosis. They had alleged healing properties, so a lot of people with tuberculosis would go there. They would bathe in the hot springs, and it was supposedly supposed to extend their lives, you know, as we know now, it was almost exactly the opposite. Probably didn't help him too much.

But there is another alleged victim of Dic Holliday in Las Vegas at this time. His name is Charlie White. Holiday had run White, who's a bartender, out of dodge and told him that if he ever saw him again, he would kill him. Well, Holiday sees White again, and he's attending bar at the Plaza Hotel saloon in Las Vegas's Old Town, and a guy named Miguel Antonio Otero. He ended up later becoming the governor of New Mexico.

But Miguel told the story because he was witnessed to it, and he straight up says that, you know, the two men faced each other, began shooting. They shoot and shoot with no one scoring a hit. Finally, Charlie White is down. What happened was, you know, they had had an argument previously. Doc straight up told him, if I ever see you again, I'm gonna kill you. So he sees him in the saloon,

he leaves to go get his gun, comes back. Doc Holliday literally just starts shooting blindly over the bar, and what he does is he shoots White in the head, but it wasn't a full shot. It actually just grazed his skull a little bit, So it really is just stunned. White didn't really, you know, do too much damage. There isn't again his story in say, there is no newspaper account or court records were found to

verify such a gunfight ever took place. But here's a deal. You have an eyewitness who later became governor who says, yeah, I saw the whole damn thing happen, like this is how it happened. So I mean, you can kind of take that as you will. Now. While they did get in the New Mexico Territory, Doc opened a dental practice again and continued

gambling as well. The winter was really unseasonably cold that year, business was really slow, and luck would have it that the New Mexico Territorial Legislature passed to bill banning gambling within the territory, and Doc said, fuck this, I'm about done, And in March eighth, eighteen seventy nine, Holiday was indicted again for keeping a gaming table. He was fine twenty five dollars. The ban combined with the ban on gambling, the fine he keeps getting indicted

on gambling charges. You got extreme low temperatures pretty much persuades him to return to Dodge City for just a few months. So on July twentieth, eighteen seventy nine, there's a lot of accounts of Doc Holliday killing a man named Mike Gordon. A coroner's end quest held the day that Gordon was killed, they made no mention of Doc Holliday. Was ruled that the fatal gunshot wound

to Gordon's chest was inflicted by some person unknown to that jury. The newspaper at the time expanded on the killings for days without a single mention of Holiday, who actually at this time had his own saloon. He had bought his own saloon on a center street. Again, we bring up bat Masterson, who adds to it. He pretty much gave it. He gave an interview

to the Arizona Weekly Citizen on August fourteenth, eighteen eighty six. He was the one who named Holiday as Gordon's killer, and even threw in a Mexican that Doc was supposed to have shot. When the Mexican was pissed about Doc shooting Gordon. So basically bat Masterson says towards the end of Doc's life and eighteen eighty six, he's like, yeah, Holiday fucking shoots this guy named Gordon, because I remember back in eighteen seventy nine when it happened. You

know, they never found him guilty. And then this Mexican gets pissed because he killed Gordon, so Doc kills him too. But like I had said, you know, Bat Masterson, he was kind of prone to exaggerate facts and making his own life story like a lot more colorful. And he did that same ship with Holiday too. You know, he fucking made him look bad. He put a lot of words into his mouth. He created all

these events that Holiday did as well. So by September of eighteen seventy nine, man Doc Holiday is pretty much developed an extreme reputation for his skill with a gun as well as with gambling and cards. A gamelike pharaoh gives the men the power to stop time. That is the appeal in my observation. When the bed is placed, a moment is carved away from the past and the future. In that enchanted moment, anything is possible. A man's debts

and regrets and limitations disappear. He is buying the chance to imagine, for one moment at a time, that the next card ideal will make him rich. John Henry Holiday. Okay, So, first and foremost, I'm going to address not so much some questions, but kind of some questions and stuff that people wanted me to go more in depth on, the first one being why did Doc want to become a dentist? Well, Doc was always known

to be like a very nervous kid. He was a nervous dude. His hands would like shake, Okay, So when his mom would teach him piano when he was younger, she used to put pennies on the back of his hands to steady his hands and keep them level and calm. And this is part of the reason he was such a talented piano player, you know. That being said, he realized that when he was doing something with his hands that he was concentrating on, that was the only time that he was like

really calm and his hands wouldn't shake. And above that, he had also previously mentioned to why Earp at one point in time that working on teeth was really the only thing that kept his hands still after he got out of playing piano. So that was one of the reasons that he did pursue dentistry because he knew that if he was concentrating on using his hands, then his hands

would stay still. And that's also a lot there's a lot of speculation as to why he was so fast with a six shooter is because of that. He just had those busy, nervous hands. Another question I got that kind of goes into the timeline. I got asked about the saloon that he had built, and then I got asked to elaborate more on the shooting of Mike Gordon as well. And here's how that goes down. Those actually kind of

tie into each other, all right. So the Santa Fe Company, which was like a railroad back then, they built tracks into Las Vegas, New Mexico, and they actually by pass a town by about a mile or so. Well, there's a new town built near the tracks, and as soon as that new town was built is the end of the tracks. So it's

one of those places where gambling and prostitution is just everywhere. And on July nineteenth, eighteen seventy nine, holiday and a guy named John Joshua Webb who was actually a former lawman but he had turned into an outlaw, and they were seated in a saloon that Doc had built. And how this all goes down is there was a former US Army scout by the name of Mike Gordon. Now he goes into this saloon and he tries to persuade one of the one of the dancers, one of the saloon girls, who actually was a

former girlfriend of his. Of Mike's, he tries to go in there and persuade her to leave town. You know, He's like, hey, you know, qu quit what you're doing now, just leave town with me, you know, blah blah blah. Well she ends up refusing, so Mike Gordon gets pissed and he goes outside and he pulls out his guns and he just starts firing bullets into this fucking building. And pretty much nobody really knows what happens after that, because a few hours later Gordon was found shot outside.

Like I had said, some people do attribute the shooting to Holiday, you know, Batmasterson being one of those people. There's no actual evidence that supports that claim that Holiday killed Gordon. There was no evidence ever found. Well, what happens is the next day, Holiday pays a carpenter three hundred and seventy two dollars and fifty cents to build a little building basically to how's Doc Holliday's saloon, and John Joshua Webb is going to be his partner.

Now, the reason that Mike Gordon was not shot in Doc Holliday's saloon like a lot of people say happened, is because when Mike Gordon was shot, the saloon hadn't actually been built yet. So even if he would have shot Gordon, Doc Holliday wouldn't have stuck around town. He wouldn't have built a fucking saloon right there in town. He would have left while he was in town. Though, in Los Vegas for that time period, it should be known that he was fined twice for keeping a gambling table. He was also

charged again for carrying a deadly weapon. So those were three charges in a very short amount of time. So there's a little bit of elaboration on that right there. Now, with jumping back into this timeline, we're actually going to answer another one of the questions that I had received about elaborating more on bat Masterson and Doc's relationship. You know, it was a relationship of necessity. What it was was bat Masterson was a lawman with wyat Earp. He

respected wyatt Earp, so he tolerated Doc. And you know, if Doc could be utilized to his advantage, then they would work together. And Doc was the same way with bat Masterson because he was a lawman, he could help him get out of trouble whenever. Needed to think about it was bat Masterson had so much respect for wyatt Earp, and Wyatterp credited Doc was saving his life. So there was like a mutual respect. Now Doc and Bat

honestly couldn't really you know, they tolerated each other. They weren't really friends, you know, they were more associates. But it was a relationship of necessity more than anything else. Before Doc had gone back to Las Vegas. While he was in Dodge City, he joined a team which was formed by

bat Masterson, who was a deputy US Marshal at the time. What was going on was Batmasterson had been asked like basically start a militia to prevent an outbreak of a small little war between the atchetson Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, which was known as the ATSF or just referred to as the Santa Fe, which I just did earlier. And the other railroad was the Denver and Rio Grand Western Railroad also known as D and R GW. Both these railroad companies

had hired people to basically fight a little war form now. They were fighting to be the first railroad to claim the right of way across the Royal Gorge. The Royal Gorge was one of very few natural routes, you know,

through the Rockies that crossed over the Continental Divide. Now, both of these two factions at the railroad, they were trying to be the first to provide this rail access to the boomtown of Leadville, Colorado, which dockheads and time in before the Royal Gorge was a bottleneck along the Arkansas, so it was too narrow for two railroads to pass through. There was no other access to

this area. So Doc was there for about two and a half months, all right, and he's basically fighting like a little war among you know, Bat Masterson and a little militia that he had formed to basically fight this other railroad. So there's actually an intervention. There's a federal intervention which prompted the so called what is referred to as the quote unquote Treaty of Boston, and they ended up ending the fight, the little fighting scenario that was going on

there. The Denver and Rio Grand Western Railroad, now they ended up completing the line first. And what they did was they leased it for the Santa Fe Railroad to use, so they got the money for building it, and there like, okay, Santa Fe Railroad, well, you guys can run

your trains on it, but you're gonna fucking pay us. The thing about that was Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson and their little group of guys, they controlled what was called the roundhouse, which is where all the locomotives were stored and where they were all serviced and fixed and stuff like that. And what the D and RGW Railroad did was they paid a bribe to Bat Masterson of ten thousand dollars to basically take over that roundhouse. So they took the bribe.

Doc Holliday took his share and then ended up going back to Las Vegas. So that's how he had a bunch of money when he got back to Las Vegas. Hopefully that clarify as some of the questions you guys had with getting more in depth. I know, the whole railroad thing was confusing. It was like a whole fucking thing that was going on that I really didn't I mean, I got in depth on it, but that was literally that could be like a whole fucking podcast in itself, you know what I'm saying.

All Right, So what's going on is it's October eighteenth, eighteen seventy nine. We're in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and Wyatt Earp shows up into town and he starts telling Doc about news of a boom going on in a place called Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Holiday and Kate were just settling into their life in Las Vegas. You know, they were kind of hesitant to

leave. But Holiday and Kate ended up joining Wyatt and his common law wife, Maddie Blaylock, as well as Jim Earp, which was one of Wyatt's brothers, and his wife and step daughter, and they ended up traveling the next day to Prescott, Arizona. Now, while they're in the Arizona Territory. In Prescott, Doc Holiday has just this crazy fucking run of good luck on the poker tables. So you know, Kate's there with them, and they're doing good. And like I had mentioned in part one, they had

a very tumultuous relationship. They were always fighting, like Kate would get drunk and like very fucking abusive, and Doc Holliday wasn't a big guy, so you know, he would just kind of take it and get pissed about it or whatever. But at this point in time, Doc Holliday is said to have been drinking two quarts of whiskey a day along with laudanum to help cure his pains of tuberculosis. So they're actually like getting along at this point.

So they end up hanging out in Prescott for a long time because everything's going pretty good right now. Now, in September of eighteen eighty, Holiday is just has a fucking pocketful of all these gamblers money and he decides to finally go to Tombstone. Holiday gets some living quarters for him and Kate and they're sandwiched in between a funeral parlor and the Soma Winery. And this is on the north side of Allen Street in sixth Street. Now Kate what she does.

She realizes an opportunity here. So as soon as they get into Tombstone. She goes into business. She purchased a large tent and she rounded up a few girls and a few barrels of bad, cheap whiskey. She ended up operating what is referred to as a quote unquote sporting house. And I'm pretty sure we all understand what the fuck that was. Okay, Wyatt Earp had already been in Tombstone like the previous December, so Holiday, you know,

finally joins them in Tombstone. There are some accounts out there that report that the Earth's sent for Holiday for assistance with a dealing with an outlaw faction known as the Cowboys. So when Doc gets there, he very quickly starts getting all tangled up in the local politics. There's a lot of violence going on, and you know, this is some of the ship that leads up

to the gunfight at the Ok Corral. What the cowboys were. Cowboys were mainly the Clanton mclowry families, and they were pretty much ranchers on the outskirts of Tombstone. The way that they were operating, which you know, we'll get to a little bit in the timeline, was they were pretty much stealing cattle from across the Mexican border and bringing them back here, you know, and then selling them, you know, having a butcher. They were wrestlers,

dude, they were They were fucking thieves. They were outlaws. But Tombstone pretty much tolerated them. Okay, it was It was like a fifty fifty thing there. Like either, you know, the townspeople were cool with the cowboys and you know, they would help them out run with them, and that does go along with with Sheriff John Bahn, who was the Coachis County sheriff at the time. But there was also another half of the town that that like, did not like the lawlessness. So the cowboys they fucking

hated that the Art brothers and Dike Holliday were in town. And basically it was because these dudes, the cowboys knew that the Earps and Holiday weren't going to take any shit, that they were actually going to stand up to him and fight back. The cowboys, like I said, mainly consisted of a Newton Clanton, which he was known as old Man Clanton, and he had three sons named Finn, Ike, and Billie. Now the mcclowry brothers were

Frank and Tom. Another cowboy was curly Bill Barocious, and then of course Johnny Ringo, Johnny Ringo, for those of you have seen the movie Tombstone, that's a pretty accurate proortrayal of Johnny Ringo. He was a fucking psychopath. He was one of those guys in the gang that his own gang members were fucking scared to death of. It is said there's a story of him literally shooting a guy's jaw off because he refused to have a drink with them.

This dude was legit a psychopath. These are the kind of guys that the Earps and Dic Holliday are dealing with. And the Cowboy he has made no qualms about saying, hey, we don't want these guys here, get them the hell out of town. But the thing about it was is the Coach's county sheriff, John Behan, usually always sighted with the cowboys. It's suggested that you know, either John Beehan was in cahoots with them, like working with them, or he was just straight up scared to death of them.

So he was absolutely no help to the townspeople whatsoever. So while they're in Tombstone, Arizona, doc ends up becoming a regular at a place called the Oriental Saloon. Now, whyatt Earp does own a little part of the Oriental Saloon. So Doc is in there all the time playing poker, playing Pharaoh, dealing Pharaoh, because as we learn from part one, Doc Holliday is very good with cards, he's very good with numbers. So he's in there trying to make some money. Now, the main owner of the Oriental

Saloon was a guy named Milt Joyce. Milt Joyce was not a big fan of the Earps. He did not like Dic Holiday. There's a lot of fucking tensions. There is a lot of tension going on in Tombstone at this point in time. So on October tenth, eighteen eighty, this local asshole

named Johnny Tyler he starts causing trouble in the saloon. Now there's a lot of speculation on whether or not he was just a total asshole in general, which he was, but it has also stated I did read in a few other places that some of the local bar owners did kind of pay him money to go into the Oriental and kind of shake shit up a little bit. What happens on October tenth is whyat ends up kicking his ass out, and

Doc is extremely happy about this, Like, I'm not gonna lie. Doc's a little bit of an instigator because he's already on borrowed time as it is, and he does not care about anything pretty much, so he's, you know, always instigating shit. So what happens is three gets out, Johnny Tyler goes and gets his pistol and comes back to the saloon to confront Doc. Doc ends up drawing his gun and he challenges Tyler to a fight right there where they stood. And when I talk about a fight, I'm not

talking about a fistfight. It was more like a pull your gun, I'm gonna fucking kill you before you kill me type of thing. That's what a fight was back then. So he challenged Tyler to a fight, like right there where they stood. Tyler backed down because, like I had said, Doc had this reputation and not that many people wanted to mess with them. So when Doc was all adamant about, you know, draw your pistol, man, let's do this right now, Johnny Tyler kind of backed down a

little bit. Now both men are pretty angry, and they were actually both disarmed before any shots were fired. Now, Johnny Tyler ends up leaving now the owner of the Oriental. Like I had said, Milt Joyce, he did not like Holiday or the herbs at all. But what he did was he started getting on Doc. He started instigating shit with Doc Holliday. So Doc gets pissed and he's already drunk, and Joyce ends up kicking Holiday out of the saloon. Well, when they broke up the fight, they took

Doc and Johnny Tyler's guns. So Doc demands his gun back, okay, and Milt Joyce pretty much says no, I'm not giving you your gun back, Like, get the hell out of here. Doc leaves and he goes and gets a double action Revolver, and he comes back to the saloon. Joyce sees Doc walk in the door and he's got a pistol in his hand. So Joyce pulls out a Revolver himself. Holliday just starts pulling the trigger. Man just starts shooting. Okay. Supposedly he one of two things happened.

Either he shoots the gun out of Joyce's hand and puts a bullet through

the palm of his hand, or he shoots his thumb off. Either way, I did read several accounts that say that Doc Holliday did shoot the gun out of his hand, and I did read in more than one place that the bullet did go through the palm of his hand, because he almost last lost his hand because of it. And now while that happens, one of the bartenders, a guy by the last name of Parker, he goes over and he tries to disarm Doc. And while this struggle is going on,

Doc ends up shooting him in the foot, blows his big toe off, and during the fight, Doc drops his pistol. Well, Joyce runs over picks up the pistol. He ended up firing one shot that missed Doc, but he when he had the pistol, he pistol whipped him hit him over the head with it. By about that time, law enforcement officer by the last name of Bennett pretty much appeared into the building. He separated them in.

Now the Epitaph, which was a local newspaper there in Tombstone, reported that a quote Holiday was picked up and placed in a chair, it being generally thought from his bloody appearance, that he was severely, if not fatally hurt. So, I mean, when Milt Joyce cracked Doc Holliday over the head with this pistol. We're not sure how many times. I mean, it messed him up good. So he's sitting in a chair just bleeding already, on top of being drunken stuff like that. It hurt him pretty bad.

But I will say this on a side note, the Tombstone Nuggets account which the Tombstone Nugget was very negatively biased, okay, towards Doc and the Herb brothers. Now, they said that Doc shot at Joyce first, who was ten feet away at the time, and then Joyce approached Doc in order

to pistol whip him. Now, this really doesn't seem very likely. It says it is doubtful that Joyce approached an armed Doc Holliday who was already firing at him from a distance of ten feet, So it makes sense that ducking for cover would probably have made more sense, and that along with maybe returning fire rather than attempting to pistol whip Doc. And they said that it is more likely that Doc's wilde shots were fired when Joyce first leap upon him from

the bar melt. Joyce's attack probably was provoked. Karen Holliday Tanner, who wrote the book A Doc Holliday a family affair. I did relay on that book for a lot of research. She went ahead and said by Doc's reappearance with the gun, and also, perhaps not surprisingly, by something Doc said. The nugget claimed that upon returning to the saloon, Doc made a remark to Joyce that if he didn't give him his gun back, he would not appear well in print, which basically says, you know, your name wouldn't

look good in the paper after I kill you. Man. There's no doubt about the fact that that Doc Holliday was hurt, really bad, and he was bleeding from the one or two or three blows that joy had dealt him. But that little quote about Doc Holliday coming back in and basically tell Milt Joyce, hey, man, give me my gun back because your name ain't gonna look good no obituary, dude. You know, I thought that was a pretty cool little fact, and that was something that Karen Holliday Tanner did

go on to say, so I thought that was pretty awesome. On October eleventh, eighteen eighty, Doc, believe it or not, is brought up on charges because of this shooting. A warrant is issued for his arrest on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Now. The very next day, on October twelfth, eighteen eighty, the Daily Nugget, which was the local paper there in Tombstone, did report that quote. Holiday appeared in court and the custody of Town Marshal Fred White. None of

the prosecution witnesses appeared in court. 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. Holiday was fined twenty dollars and the cost of eleven dollars and twenty five cents end quote. So Dic Holiday again, you know, gets out of some charges because literally none of these witnesses ever appeared in court

on behalf of the prosecution to charge Doc Holiday. Now, there is a lot of speculation that, you know, maybe whiter p had a lot to do with that and kind of talking them out of it. You know. So there is that things are going pretty shitty for Doc Holiday right now. He has that that he's dealing with right now, and his relationship with Big Notes Kate is going to shit now. They did live together, but Dic was really concentrating on his drinking and gambling, and Kate pretty much was concentrating

on her drinking and you know her other duties as a saloon woman. So you know, they were doing a lot of fighting. And around this time, Kate is starting to be very loud, very abusive when she's drunk. So Doc finally decides that he's had enough and he throws her ass out. Okay. On October twenty eighth, Tombstone Town, Marshall, guy by the name of Fred White was trying to break up a group of just some late

night dudes getting rowdy. You know, they were some of the cowboys, and pretty much what they're doing is they're out on Allen Street and Tombstone in there fucking howling and shooting at the moon. So he walks over and he tries to confiscate the pistol of Curly Bill Barrocius. Now he ended up getting shot in the abdomen. Now, Wyatt Earp goes over and he does what

they call he went over in Buffalo to Curly Bill Brocius. Now what that means is basically just went over and intimidated the shit out of him, and he ended up knocking him unconscious and he arrested him. A lot of years wait later, Wyatt ended up telling his biographer that he thought bro Sis was still armed at the time and had not noticed that Brosius's pistol was already on the ground, so that's why he kind of took it to the next level

and ended up knocking his ass out. The pistol when it was picked up, it contained one fired off cartridge and he had five live rounds in it. Curly Bill ended up waving a preliminary hearing so he in his case could be transferred to the Tucson District Court because he thought they would get more fair of a trial there. Now White ended up dying two days later because of the shooting, and in return, curly Bill Brosius ended up getting charged with

murder. Now on December twenty seventh, eighteen eighty end court, Wyatt RB himself did testify that he thought the shooting was accidental. It was also demonstrated that curly Bill's pistol could have been fired from the half cock position. That combined with the fact that Fred White left a statement before he died he didn't die immedia, and he actually said himself that the shooting was not intentional, that it was an accident, So the judge ended up releasing curly Bill Brocius.

But Curly Bill kind of had a little bit resentment towards Wyatt Earp for beating the shit out of him when he was arresting him, because Whader pretty much did, I mean, he kicked his ass pretty good. So Curly Bill just kind of had that kind of had that resentment about him ever since then. So on March fifteenth, eighteen eighty one, this is where we start getting in some pretty cool stuff. There were four masked men that attempted

to hold up of the Caneer and Company stage near Contentions City. Now, these four masked robbers killed the stage driver, which was Bud Philpott. Another guy named Peter Roig, who was a passenger. Doc was not involved. He was later accused by the cow Boys of being involved. It was proven later on that the cowboys themselves were actually involved or connected somewhat to this robbery.

So they're basically taking an opportunity to pass this on to Doc and to get him into trouble because nobody liked Doc, you know what I'm saying. So according to Wyatter, Doc was in town at the Alhambra Saloon at the time of the robbery was reported, and had been in town since late afternoon.

Now the stage was robbed at ten PM, and this was actually while Doc was dealing or playing Pharaoh. But a friend of Doc's, who was a respectable jeweler, who used to be a respectable jeweler, i should say, by the name of Leonard, is named as one of the bandits. That's how the Cowboys kind of got Doc's name going on in there. Doc's involvement came pretty much from that former jeweler by the last name of Leonard and

the Cowboy faction and Sheriff Behan himself. Now they're basically trying to cover up their own involvement in the robbery. So all the residents in this town, they even thought the members of the Cowboy gang, you know, Ike Clanton, Frank Stillwell, Curly Bill dude named Pete Spencer were involved in the holdup. So literally, like the whole town is like Cowboys are the ones who did it. Sheriff Behan's probably involved too, Like why the fuck are they

trying to blame Dike Holliday for this shit? So Cowboy faction ended up accusing Holiday of being one of the holdup men, and Milt Joyce, the owner of the Oriental he was actually county supervisor as well. Now him and Sheriff John Behan. What they did was they found Kay on one of her drunken binges. Okay, she's pissed off because Dike Holliday had thrown her ass out. So she's sitting there just talking all this shit about Dic Holliday and this

and that. So Joyce and be Hand pretty much see this as an opportunity, right, So they go over and they buy her all the whiskey that she can drink, and they start sympathizing with her, you know, like, oh man, he's such a horrible guy. You know, I can't believe he did that to you. You're such a good woman. And what they start doing is start suggesting on how she can even the score with Doc

Holiday. Now what happens is they eventually persuade her to sign an affidavit implicating Doc Holiday in this hold up. They also persuade her to say that he was the guy who pulled the trigger on the gun that killed Bud Philpott. So Justice of the Peace guy named by the name of Wells Spicer. He issues a warrant for Holiday's arrest and he's using big nosed Kate's Affidavid for this.

Now, while Kate is so bring up, what the Earth's are doing is they start rounding up witnesses who could testify Doc's whereabouts on the night that the hold up occurred. And this is very very important to the Oka Koral thing. Okay, now listen, what Wyatt Earp does is he secretly goes

to Ike Clanton and offers him money. Now, what he's doing is he's trying to find out the whereabouts of the remaining stage robber and basically, if he gets this information, he can clear Doc's name and get him out of this trouble. Not only that, but Whyatt's planning on running for sheriff as well, so this would help his political ambitions and he'll get his best friend out of trouble. Now, the reason we know this this is fact because

Wyatt actually admitted this in a later newspaper interview. He had these two motives

right here. So when Kate actually sobered up, she realized what she had done and she went ahead and she insisted that you know she had signed a paper while drinking with b Hannon Joyce, but that she couldn't remember what the paper was when all these witnesses came forward, witnesses to you know, Holiday's whereabouts at the time of the robbery, and then Kate saying, Hey, I don't I was so fucking drunk, Like these two guys got me to sign this AFFI David, I don't even know what it was. Basically,

it was this big plot run by the Cowboy faction. Holiday ends up getting released. The district attorney labeled the charges ridiculous and he pretty much threw them out. Now, Doc at this time is like seriously pissed at Kate, all right, and he gives her some money and he pretty much puts her on a stage coach and he where the funk out of town. He's like,

just go, I'm not even dealing with this shiit anymore. So she gets out of town and basically at this point, as far as he's concerned, his debt to her is even because she did break him out of the house situation in Fort Griffin by you know, setting that fucking fire and pretty much you know, had the horses waiting when they went to Dodge City and stuff, and on his side of the argument, he's like, we're even okay, you got me out of jail, but you literally almost got me

charged with murder. Here's some money, get the fuck out of town. We're done. She supposedly had made like two or three trips back to Tombstone to visit Doc, because she does say that she was a witness to the gunfight at the Okay Corral. We're not one hundred percent sure if she actually was or not, but we do know that they did share a room at a boarding house by the name of Missus Flies boarding House, So there's a very good chance that she was back into town by the time the shooting at

the Okay Corral did happen. Now, even before the stage coach was robbed, because dude, these stage coaches were robbed pretty often by the cowboys. All right, all these businessmen, and like the higher ups in Tombstone, they're pretty much sick of like all this violence going on with the cowboys. Along with that, the state of Arizona is starting to get pissed at the cowboys because they keep crossing the Mexican border and coming back and they're rustling cattles

and mules. They did not want a border war with Mexico because you have the Mexican authorities saying, hey, you guys, don't fucking do something about this, We're going to So there's even more attention right there now. Along with that, Whyatt wanted to win the upcoming sheriff's election. He had been running against, you know, Sheriff Behan, who actually lost his last election. Now, Behan is described as corrupt. You know, more often than

not, Behand only enforced the law when it pretty much suited him. He was that kind of cop. He was seriously corrupt, like I said, even before the Okay Corral. Whyatt figured that enforcing the law against the cowboys, which Behand would never really do, would likely win him that upcoming sheriff's election. So Wyatt wanted the town of Tombstone to see him as a tough, a fair kind of guy with morals and stuff like that. So he

would pretty much be the perfect man for sheriff. So he's sitting here like, you know, he's promoting his image and the local press, you know, and he has business connections in town, so they're supporting him. And more often than not, you know, in a place like Tombstone at this point in time, they're more often they're going to elect a hero, which Behand obviously was not. Behan was kind of a piece of shit. Okay,

So Wyatt's whole thing was cleaning up the town. Behand knew that he was gunning for his job, and they both had that animosity for each other. Doc and Wyatt being such good friends. They were fiercely loyal to each other. Okay. Doc's reputation and kind of shady past, you know, as well as the fact that he had taken part in the stagecoach robbery, kind of meant that Doc was he was literally a political liability for Wyatt. But Wyatt honestly did not care. He still kept him close, He still

always had his back, He still defended him. That was the cool thing about it. Like to Wyatt, having Doc around to have his back in a fight was priceless. They trusted each other, and that's what it came down to in the end. So moving on to August thirteenth, eighteen eighty one. All right, at this point in time, the border between New Mexico and Arizona is there's a lot of tension there and some ship goes down. Okay, old man Clanton, who technically at this time is the head

of the cowboys. He's driving a herd of cattle into Tombstone Market. He's expected, you know, to have a quick sale, make a quick profit, done with it. Well, what ends up happening is they made camp the first night, which was on August twelfth. Most likely it was in

Guadaloupe Canyon, which was about one mile south of the International Boarder. Now with him were Dixie Lee Gray, Billy Lang, Bud Snow, Billy Buyers, Harry Earnshaw, and Jim Crane. Now Crane was one of the four men who had attempted to rob the stage coach near Contention Shit City, like

five months earlier that they ended up trying to blame Doc for so. The other three men who had been involved were Harry Head, Billy Leonard, the former jeweler who was friends with Doc Holliday, and another guy named Luther King. Those were the four masked men who robbed that stage coach near Contention City.

Now Luther King was arrested by Morgan Earp Believe it or not, he had quote unquote escaped from Sheriff b Han's jail, so Head and Leonard had been killed by Ike and Bill, a guy named Bill Haslett over in New Mexico Territory for that right there. Now, in the early morning of August thirteenth, the Clanton party was attacked by riflemen. Lang Gray, Crane, Snow, and old Man Clant were all killed. Buyers and Earnshaw were wounded, but they did escape. Okay. The attackers were said to be Mexicans.

Now, several historians believe that the Earp Federal Posse was involved in the death of these men, and that would have included Doc Holliday. Now it should be stated that supposedly, according to some accounts, Doc Holliday in this altercation had been shot in the leg and it was kind of suspicious because some historians say that he was lightly wounded and possibly walking with a cane. But there are other historians who totally disregard this fact, so it's hard to tell

what exactly happened. Now, records show that Marshall Crawley Dake was ordered to send a posse down to the border to pretty much put to rest some of these disturbances caused by the cowboys. Now, Marshall Dake. He trusted wid Earp and likely it's more than likely wid Earp was head of this posse. Okay. Now, logically the first place for his federal posse to search would have been the area, you know, where Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Chihuahua, Mexico all meet, and it appears that they did.

They did indeed find the cowboys in Guadaloupe Canyon or possibly Skeleton Canyon, and the posse must have been happy to see Jim Crane with them, because you know, Jim Crane was one of the one of the guys who robbed the stage coach. Now, the Mexican government was they had a stance, you know, with the cowboy wrestling problem. It was pretty much either the Americans would have to stop the cowboys from coming across the border to steal or the

Mexicans were going to handle it themselves. So there may have been some Mexicans present in the canyon too, either working with the American lawman or like a joint effort type thing, or they might have just been there like observing the American effort to take out the cowboys. But dic Holiday and another Earb brother by the name of Warren were wounded at the border gun battle, and they

did not appear in Tombstone until they had recovered. So you know, there's that side of historians that say that, So that would explain why Holiday had a cane when the Okay Corral did happen, and why Warren RB actually did miss the gunfight at the Okay Corral. Now, according to some other historians, it was the Mexican authorities, not the art Posse, who were involved in the shootout with the cowboys, you know who, Like I'd said,

they were known for stealing cattle across the border. So you know, you have the other side saying, you know, the EARP Posse was working with the Mexican authorities. You know, we really are not sure. All we know is that the Earps were directly involved with investigating the stagecoach robbery. We do know that, all right, that is fact. So here's what happens

on October twenty fifth, eighteen eighty one. Now, when we start getting into the Okay Corral shootout, I'm just going to let you know right now, like there are so many varying eyewitness accounts. I literally had to take all these accounts I had to put them all together, and then I kind of had to go through them and make sense of what happened. Now, when the Okay Corral shootout does come, because that happened on October twenty six, where the day before this is what leads up to it. You got

to keep in mind that it's very fast paced. This all happened. The Okay Karl shoot out happened in a matter of thirty seconds, so there's a lot of stuff going on. This is leading up. This is the day before October twenty fifth, eighteen eighty one. Doc and Kate had pretty much by this time kind of rekindled their romance, and they were in Tucson.

Ike Clampton spends the entire day in Tombstone just getting ship faced drunk, all right, and he's going from saloon to saloon, and he's threatening to kill the RPS and Doc Holiday basically telling every single person who would listen, I'm

gonna kill these guys, so big nos. Kate made a statement saying that Perr and Doc were in Tucson. Doc was playing Pharaoh, Kate said, and I quote, I was standing behind him when Morgan RP came and tapped Doc on the shoulder and said, Doc, we want you in Tombstone tomorrow. Better come up this evening. Now, Doc claimed that they went back to their room and quote Doc left me at his room and went with Morgan at ten thirty pm that night end quote. Now that later that night Doc

gets into Tombstone. Okay, Ike Clanton is kind of in panic mode, and why he's in panic mode is because of his involvement was selling out the cowboys to the Earps, because like I had mentioned, Earp had secretly made that deal with Ike Clant to sell out the other cowboys to basically clear Doc's name with his involvement in the stagecoach robbery. So Ike's kind of in panic

mode because he's scared that his actions are going to be discovered. When he sees Doc Holliday arrive in to town, he's he's pissed because he thinks that Wyatt had told him about their arrangement about you know him and why it's arranged. So Ike accuses Whyat of telling Doc about it, he was afraid that that Doc Holiday might leak the story to the other cowboys or to the other people in town. So Whyatt tells Ike Clant He's like, listen, I

didn't tell Doc anything about the payoff. I didn't tell him that I gave you money to sell out your friends. You know, because, as you're going to come to find out, Ike clantons, he's a total piece of shit. He's only looking out for himself all the time. So Whyatt tells him? He's like, listen, dude, I didn't tell Doc anything about the payoff. So later that in night, Doc starts noticing, Hey, why why is he so fucking weird? Why is he being all nervous and

panicky? So Whyatt actually tells Doc? Then he's like, Okay, here's the deal, here's what happened. So Doc's spending the next few hours drinking, playing some cards, and about two hours later, Doc and Morgan are pretty much verbally abusing the shit out of Ike Clanton. They're making fun of him that you know, they're on them all kinds of names. Ike Clanton reaches his boiling point. So at one am, Doc Holliday gets hungry and he goes to the Alhambra's eating counter to get some food. Okay, Doc

and Ike have a confrontation. Now, during this confrontation, Doc is sitting there cursing at him, calling him a damned liar and a son of a bitch of a cowboy. You know, those are quoted because there's a lot of witnesses to this. Clanton pretty much says that, you know, by selling information to Wyatt, he was really trying to lure you know, the earth Posse into a trap. You know, So he's kind of covering his

tracks. He's like, listen, the only reason I sold out members of my own gang is because I literally was trying to kill Wyatt Earp, which it probably wasn't true. You know, he was trying to save some face. So Doc Holliday gets even more pissed. Okay, and he had been hearing about all the talk about Ike Clanton, saying, hey, you know, I clans run around town telling everybody I'm gonna kill the Europe So I'm

gonna kill Doc Holiday as soon as I see them. So Doc Holiday walks up to him, looks I'm straight in the face and quote, I heard you're going to kill me. Ike, get out your gun and commence. So Doc standard there literally looking at Ike Clanton saying, I heard you're gonna kill me. Man, pull out, You're gonna do it right now. That pretty much ended the cursing match, and Ike Clanton says, you know, hey, I'm unarmed. I have nothing to fight with. So Doc

Holliday says, go get healed. I'll wait. So he's basically telling Ike Clant, go get a gun, dude, I'll wait for you. Come on back. So he's sitting there just kind of antagonizing him even further, and he tells Ike Clanton that his big mouth is what caused his old man to be killed, and that Doc Holiday himself had had the pleasure of pulling the trigger and killing him and he would take just as much enjoyment in doing

the same Tyke. Doc Holliday is known to you know, kind of you know, be an instigator, but there's still that speculation that there's a good possibility that TyC Holiday was the one who killed his fucking dad. So he's in this bar literally just looking this dude straight in the face, like I heard you're gonna kill me, man, pull out your gun and do it. And to piss I clamping off even more, he tells him he was the one who killed his dad and he would enjoy just as much if he

killed him too. So that's what's going on. Okay, So Virgil or who at this time is a US Deputy Marshal, and Wyatt, who's an appointed and acting city Marshal, by Virgil, and Morgan, who is also a sworn officer. They're all present during this confrontation. That's how we know it's so well documented. And yeah, I will say that Whyatt was known to speak in favor of Doc Holiday quite a bit. But Virgiler was one of the few that one of the few Earb brothers that really didn't care for

Doc. Like Virgil, Earp was known as you know, a very fair guy. So a lot of what he says is true, and he had no qualms about saying, hey, listen, I really didn't like the guy. He was best friends with two of my brothers. I really didn't care for him. You know, he was an all right guy. So when he said something, you know, we usually take it as fact. And all three of these guys said the same thing. So Virgil tells Doc and Ike that he would arrest both of them if they continue the argument. Well

why it ends up convincing Doc to just go away. You know, He's like, just come on with me, man, let's just go back to the room. And Whyatt later says, you know, you know, Doc was pretty fucking pissed, all right, but he says, you know, so was Ike. But Ike wasn't as easily led away by the earps like they're trying to leave Dike away. And he's still making threats, you know, the whole time, he's talking about killing Doc for the rest of the

night, up until the early morning hours. Okay, he's saying, quote, I promise to kill you when the others come to town. And basically he's saying, you know, when my other cowboys come to town, you guys are all dead. So Ike runs into Wyatt a little bit later, after he had dropped Doc Holiday off at the room. Ike tells him, he says, tell your consumptive friend, you're Arizona Nightingale. He's a dead man tomorrow. And Wyatt looks at him and he says, don't you tangle

with Doc Holiday. He'll kill you before you've begun. Ike looks at him and says, get ready for a showdown. All right, that's all we have for part one. Part two will be out soon enough. I hope you enjoyed this, and I can guarantee if you did, you're gonna love Part two that much more that Epistas to do this, Spists Stills to do this, Spot Stars Stills to do those bass I and I and I