Part 2 of 2 - Doc Holliday

All right, folks, welcome to part two of the DIC Holiday series here on Blood and Dust. And again this is a solo hosted episode by me Justin. Also, again, there is explicit language. There is explicit content. Whether you're a child listening or an adult, just be aware of that. I will say this these two episodes, all the DIC Holiday stuff I did took me months to research. The information in here is crazy, and I just really hope that you enjoy it. So with that being said,

let's get on with this episode. We are none of us born into Eden. The world's plenty evil when we get here. Question is what's the best way to play a bad hand John Henry Holiday. When the Herbs made up their minds to go down and confront the mcclowdy's and their group for Doc, it was a no brainer. He was going to back their play no matter what. This famous gunfight is a most legendary shootout of the real West. In the small towns and farms outside Tombstone, many saw the irp's as unprovoked

killers and the dead men as innocent victims. The biggest misconception people have about Doc Holiday is that he was simply wide Earth sidekick, Doc's his own men, who chooses to live by chance and violence over dying in a sick bit, Doc Holliday's anger fuel by a life cut short, desperate to die on his own terms. For fifteen years, he lives in the shadow of certain

Yeah. The cowboys were robbing and murdering Mexican citizens at a time when the last thing they wanted to do was stir up what one official called an international controversy, if not war. It was obvious that the cowboys would strike again. It was obvious that there would be more trouble. I Clapton was eager to exact any degree of revenge he could. Many historians agree that Doc is the first to cock his weapon and one of the first to pull the trigger.

There's a good chance that if Doc Holiday is not there that day, the gunfight at the Okay Corral might never have happened. Right after the gunfight, it seemed almost like the town and like the West as a whole, was celebrating. They were considered heroes for taking action against those dirty cowboys. The lines of animosity that were created by that gunfight were far far deeper and potentially lethal that any disagreements that had happened before. Rumors of assassination were everywhere.

The Earths were said to be targets. Along with Doc Holiday, Doc Holiday represents the darkness, the villainy, the inequity that lies inside of all of us, that part of us that we know we need to repress, but is also useful. Now we're on October twenty sixth, eighteen eighty one, the day of the shootout at the Ok Corral. It's eleven am and Whyat and Virgil they basically see Ike Clanton still drunk in the streets and probably

trying to sober up a little bit. They take him into custody. After a little bit of a fight, Virgil ends up pistol whipping Ike Clanton. Ike is brought into the court on a weapon's charge. You know, he had been carrying a Winchester rifle and a pistol. Whyat also has words with Tom mclowry and Pistol whips the shit out of him. So there was an ordinance in town when Virgil came around that you know, there were no there were no weapons allowed in town. That was just the way it was,

and these two kept breaking the rules. So at one thirty pm Ike is out of jail. He has his guns, okay, and he's around town looking for Doc. Now Doc is asleep when Ike comes into the Flies boarding house looking for him, which is actually adjacent to the photography studio, which is right next to the alley where the shootout takes place. Now Doc is asleep, so obviously he doesn't find there. Kate notices that Ike clants around

looking for him, and she warns Doc via the landlady pretty much. She like relays a message to the landlady and says, hey, tell like Doc isn't here, you know, or that she wasn't sure where he was, so Ike, Clanton's just like all right, whatever you know now, big nos. Kate was visiting Doc at the time, okay, missus Fly told her that Clanton had been trying to find Holiday. They're up in the room. Kate tells Doc that Ike is out looking for him and that he's threatening

to kill him again and all this other stuff. According to Kate's account, Doc says, if God will let me live long enough, he will see me. So he gets addressed, throws on a black suit with a light colored linen shirt, a broad hat, long gray overcoat, and he goes out and he meets up with the Earps, who have been all day long, all morning long, receiving reports from various townspeople. You know that the Cowboy gang is out gunning for him. They're looking for him, they want

to kill him. So John Beehan, the county sheriff, shows up, and he says, hey, Ike Clanton and his crew are on Fremont Street talking gun talk. There are some reports that say Wyatt telling Doc, you know, on his arrival, he didn't need to get mixed up in what was about to happen, probably more than likely because he wasn't officially a lawman, in which Doc replied, that is a hell of a thing for you

to say to me. And that was pretty much assuming that it was because he was already involved so deep with the Earps that it didn't matter to him whether he was a lawman or not. He was already living on borrowed time. It should be noted that when Karen holiday Tanner did write her book, she really did not make any mention of this little conversation, so you know, you should know that. But there are other witnesses who did corroborate that

two thirty pm. The earps and Doc decide to go confront the cowboys who were, like I said, in that alley about ten feet away from that Okay corral because the shoot out technically didn't happen at the corral. And Virgil asks Sheriff Bihan to go with him and literally looks at him, starts laughing

and says, hell, this is your fight, not mine. The next chain of events are from thirty days worth of testimony from preliminary hearings from a large number of witnesses and all of the people involved, and this is all stated by Justice of the Peace Wells Spicer. Okay. So Doc and Virgil they exchange walking stick and shotgun. Doc takes virgil shotgun, Virgil takes Doc's

walking stick. Holiday Tanner, like I had stated, the author of Doc Holliday A Family Affair, she seems to think that Virgil carried Dock's walking stick to appear more imposing, but more than likely he probably carried it as a weapon because a lot of historians feel that Virgil and Wyatt just intended to disarm the cowboys by pistol whipping them, and the way that they actually approached that small lot would probably have been evidence of that, so that should be noted.

Now, Doc carries the shotgun, partially concealed beneath his gray overcoat, and the foursomes start walking towards the lot by the Ok Corral. Now the cowboys which included a now unarmed Ike Clanton, along with Billy Clanton, his brother, the mclowry brothers Frank and Tom, and Billy Clayborne, they were nearby. Now, what they were doing there was they were actually waiting there

for Doc because they were planning on ambushing him. Doc and the Earps actually believe this, and most historians believe it as well, because Doc was staying at the adjoining boarding house, which was right next door. Right when they get close by, Sheriff Bhan runs over and he claims that he disarmed the cowboys. The Earps and Doc brush them off. They're like, whatever, dude, just get the fuck out of here. They didn't trust him anyway.

They didn't think that he did disarm them, and Virgil actually later suggested even if they did believe them, they were going over to make sure that they were disarmed. Now, as it turns out, you know, Sheriff b Hand either didn't disarm them or he didn't completely disarm them. Billy Clanton and the mcclowary brothers still had weapons on them. Now, this is one cool thing that I did find stated in several eyewitness accounts. As they are

on their way to the OK Corral. Witnesses said that the three Art brothers were all dressed in black with firm, mean grimaces on their faces, while Doc was Natalie clad in gray and was whistling. Now, if you can picture that these dudes are getting or heady to head over to a shootout, Doc's dressed in gray, just whistling on his way there. I thought that was like personality wise, that was just perfect for me. I just smiled

when I read that as like his kick ass. So when they actually get there, the cowboys are really surprised because the RBS show up with Doc, and like I had said, they were planning on ambushing Doc. He was supposed to be alone. Okay, So Doc was there as armed backup. Now, he stood slightly behind the street with the shotgun. He covered the flank. His job was to cover the side so that you know, the cowboys couldn't come around the side or whatever. Now, you got to remember

this lot literally is fifteen feet wide. Okay, it's a very confined area, and his job was basically to make sure that Virgil and Wyatt were not fired upon as they disarmed the clans and McClory's. Now, Virgil and Wyatt probably did not think the cowboys would fire on them with Doc and Morgan covering them in this manner, because Morgan was actually on the other side, covering the other flank. Virgil says, throw up your hands, I intend to

disarm you, and obviously the cowboys did not comply. Now, the shooting started when Billy Clanton and Frank McClory cocked their pistols. Now, too, shots are fired initially and simultaneously. Now, apparently these shots are fired by Wyatt and Frank McLaury. Some accounts do have Billy Clanton drawing first. Now it's not really known who fired the first shot, but Doc's bullet was the

first one to hit. He hit Tom McLaury in the stomach with a double barreled shotgun as he was reaching for a weapon in his saddle sheath as mccloudy was pulling his gun when Doc shot him. Mccloudy pulled the trigger and a bullet went through Wyatrp's coattail. Billy Clayborne. As soon as he hears the shots fired, he takes off running. He's gone, so Doc ends up getting hit in the hip. Kate later reported that his hip was only grazed

by mccloudy's bullet. Kate asked Doc if he was hurt, and he replied no. She could see like a small reddish welt from the bullet the tombstone nugget. The newspaper also reported that Doc skin was just grazed because the bullet hit his pistol holster. So at this point, Ike Clanton he panocks.

He throws his gun down and basically starts begging for his life, and Wyatt yells at him fight or get out like Clayborne, and he watched Ike Clanton straight up dessert his brother Billy, and he ran towards the door of the photography shop. Now, while he gets into the photography shop, Ike draws up hid and gun from his back and he fires one more round towards Wyatt

before he pretty much disappeared out aside into hiding. The sound actually distracted Morgan enough so that Frank mclowy sent a bullet into Morgan's side, so Morgan is now shot. Then by this time Doc tossed the shotgun and he had drawn his nickel plated pistols, and he covers starts covering some ground to come face

to face with Frank mclowery, who was wounded at this point. Now, Frank mclowry levels his pistol, looks right at Doc and says, quote, I got you now, And Doc looks at him and says, you're a daisy if you have, and then he hurries up, draws his pistol shoots Frank mcclowry right behind the right ear. At the same exact time, Morgan Herb fires a shot at Frank mcclowry, which also hits him. Now Billy Clanton fired at Virgil, but his shot went astray when he was hit with

Morgan's shot through the ribcage. Some did claim that Doc may have shot at Ike as he fled, but he more than likely didn't, according to eyewitness accounts and to Wyatt's account, indicate the only his only shots were at the mcclowry brothers. Now Billy Clanton, who's pretty much just wounded he's pretty much dying. He starts firing blindly into the gun smoke around him, and he hits Virgil in the leg. Now Wyatt responds and he walks up and just

fills him full of bullets, just not even a hesitation. So all in all, the lawmen killed three of the cowboys during that gunfight. But the thing about it was is Dic Holiday, being the sikest person who probably should have been bedridden covering the flank, actually covers more ground than anybody in this gunfight. He was constantly moving around just covering everybody's fire, which is awesome.

I thought that was so cool because this guy is literally on his damn deathbed for the last x amount of years, but he's the one moving around the most making sure nobody else gets shot. So you would think that this

would be the end of it, but it's not. Ike Clanton ends up filing fucking murder charges, and they did like I had said, Well, Spicer, Justice of the Piece had thirty days of preliminary hearings and where he heard witness test Moony, he heard from everybody involved, and he ended up finding that the lawman and Doc Holliday acted within their duty Now to Ike Clanton and the other cowboys, well, Spicer's findings really didn't mean shit to them.

Now, the aftermath of the Okay Corral, you know, Virgil and Wyatt both believed that Sheriff Behan had pretty much betrayed them the minutes right before the Okay Corral went down, you know, when he stated, hey, I have disarmed them, which he obviously didn't do. At the end of the day, the mclowry brothers and eighteen year old Billy Clanton were the three

that were killed. According to Kate's reports, she which it's still debatable whether or not she was even present, but Doc supposedly returns to his room, sits on the side of the bed, puts his face in his hands, you know, just downcast, and says, this is just awful. It's awful. And she's basically referring to the fact that he had taken a couple lives that day, or at least one life that day. Now, like

I said, this is highly debatable. Kate does say some things throughout history relating to Doc that could be taken as kind of true, kind of not true. So you got to kind of take that with a grain of salt. Now what happens next is Ike Clampton, he was the one who ran away from the fight. He goes and files in a complaint against Wyat, Eeran Doc. Holliday, Doc and Wyat are both arrested and the hearings were held in Justice of the Piece, Well Spicer's court, from November second till

November twenty ninth. Now, when Spicer had hurt all the testimony, he issued an opinion, and he said, in the view of all the facts and circumstances in the case, considering the threats made, the character and position of the parties, and the tragical results accomplished in manner and form as they were, with all surrounding influences, is bearing upon the result of the affair, I cannot resist the conclusion that the defendants were fully justified in committing these

homicides, and that it was a necessary act done in the discharge of official duty. So the Justice of the Piece is pretty much saying, hey, look, these guys were justified. This was they were I mean, they did several witnesses, they had everybody come up give their testimonies, and after all that it was says, you know what this is justifiable homicide. They were, they were in duty of what they were doing. So this really

really pissed the cowboys off. So on December twenty eighth, eighteen eighty one, at about midnight, Virgil Earp is on his way from the Oriental Saloon to the Crystal Palace. Now I had heard a separate report that he was at the Schiffelin Hotel back to the Cosmopolitan. Now the herbs had moved to either one or the other for mutual support and protection because they did know that the cowboys and Ike Clanton were out for revenge for killing the mcclowry's and Ike

Clanton's little brother Billy. The weird thing about that is the Ok Corral, the citizens were split pretty fifty fifty. It was really weird because all the people within Tombstone pretty much heralded him yet them as heroes, you know, they had saved the day because there's all this violence always going on. But the other half of them in the little ranches outside of Tombstone, they did

not see it that way. They saw the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday as the villains because you know, they were friendly with the cowboys and shit like that, and on top of it, mcclowry brothers that were killed. The mclowry's were pretty much seen as everybody. Yeah, they were in cahoots with the cowboys, but they were also seen as being in the wrong place at

the wrong time. So a lot of people took sympathy towards the mcclowry's and and even young Billy Clanton who was eighteen years old, you know, when he got killed. So you got to understand, like, even though the movie's portray it this way, or sometimes history might portray it that way, it was very fifty fifty on whether or not the citizens in and around Tombstone actually liked the Earps and dic holiday for what they did. So there was

a shitload of tension going on right now. Okay, So on December twenty eighth, eighteen eighty, wanted about midnight, Virgil RB like I had said, it was on his way from one saloon to another, and like I had said, they had moved there for mutual support and protection. Virgil was

ambushed by three men with shotguns. Two out of the five shots fired that struck Virgil, one of them shattered his left arm and the other one entered his left side and back by about he was hit by about twenty pellets worth a buckshot. Now this shattered the humorous and his left arm. Virgil herb kind of when he got hit by the bolts, he kind of spun completely around, but he never left his feet. He stayed on his feet the entire time. And doctor George Goodfellow, he was the one who worked on

Virgil Ert. He had ended up removing about five and a half inches worth of bone, which is about one hundred and forty millimeters. Now, these wounds did cripple Virgil for the rest of his life. They were very serious wounds, but he was able to walk back to whichever one he was at. Let's say it's the Oriental, whereas brother Wyatt was playing poker. Now,

the first thing Whyatt did was he telegraphed US Marshall Crawley Dake. He requested appointment as a Deputy US Marshal for Eastern Pima County and he wanted the authority to form a posse. Now, I'm not going to get into two money details about the ambush of Virgil Earp, the shooting of Morgan Earp, and a lot of the details pertaining to the Vendetta ride, because that is

going to pertain more to the Herbs than it is to Doc Holliday. I will mention the things that Doc Holliday was involved in, but when it comes to the Earth episode down the line, I don't want to be redundant and repeat a lot of that information, especially when it doesn't pertain to Doc Holliday. This is Doc's episode, so us Marshall Dake replied right away with yes,

so why earp. First thing he did was he deputized his brother Warren, a guy named Sherman McMaster, guy named Jack Turkey Creek Johnson, another guy named Harelip, Charlie Smith, another guy named Daniel Tipton, guy named John Texas, Jack Vermillion, and of course Doc Holliday is suspected as well to be one of those deputized members. Now, what he was looking for

was he was looking to protect his family and pursue the suspects. And what he was doing was he was paying these guys five dollars per day, which would be in today's money about one hundred bucks a day. The men responsible for the attack on Virgil were more than likely Ike Clanton, Johnny Ringo, Frank still well, Hank Swelling, Pete Spencer, and Johnny Barnes. Some

of the men were arrested and brought into court. But what happened was a number of eyewitnesses who were friendly with the cowboys or even cowboys themselves, swore that the guys that were being charged with the crime we're in Charleston at the time that Virgil was shot. So the judge really had no reason, you know, he had no reason to hold him. He couldn't hold them. He had no choice but to release them because of the eyewitness accounts of them

being elsewhere. So in January of eighteen eighty two, there's this huge rash of crime. There's all kinds of horse thefts, there's a bunch of stagecoach robberies that are happening. And what's going on is the Earps and Doc Holliday are losing a lot of popularity in Tombstone, and it's mostly due to the feud between the cowboys and the Earps, And it was also the series of crimes and shootings that were pretty much pissing everybody off because the Earps had promised

that they were going to stop all this. Now another reason that the townspeople were getting pissed at Dic Holliday in the Earps is because Virgil Earp shooting. It happened right in the heart of the business district of Tombstone, and there was a bunch of patrons at a local place right by where Virgil was, called the Golden Eagle Brewery, and some of those shots barely missed some of

the patrons inside there. So they're starting to fear for their own lives because the Earths are targets and basically starting a bunch of shit, and of course Dic Holiday being the instigator of a ton of this shit, they also were not liking him very well either. So in January of eighteen eighty two, Deputy Sheriff Breckinridge was out on patrol near the Birdcage One Knives Birdcage Theater. He feels a pistol against his chest and it's Frank Stillwell. One of the

cowboys. Stillwell claimed that he was waiting for someone, and Bragg that he was going to kill him that night. Now Breckinridge cautioned Stillwell to go home. He was already out home bail and awaiting trial. So just a little bit later Breckinridge finds Doc Holliday. Nothing actually happens, obviously, but because Doc Holliday is still here, we don't know the details of that altercation. Ike Clanton later goes and he refiles murder charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday

for the slang of his brother and the mcclowery boys. Now, Ike was unable to produce any kind of sufficient evidence, so the judge had no choice but to pretty much dismiss all the charges. Now, on January seventeenth, eighteen eighty two, there is a street standoff between Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo. Now, if you've seen the movie Tombstone, which I'm pretty sure everybody has, there's a lot of writers, and in the movie, you know

Ringo confronts Doc and the Earp brothers. That is not true Virgil and Morgan where are still recovering from their wounds from the Okay Corral and from Virgil getting ambushed that night about a month beforehand or three weeks beforehand. So the thing about it too is Ringo knew he really wasn't at that much risk because he knew they wouldn't accept the challenge. Because there's still all this shit going on,

but he was drinking a lot of whiskey that day. He knew that they were having troubles enough with the aftermath of the gunfight at the Okay Corral, Ringo knew all this. So pretty much how it goes down is Ringo steps out into the street to quote unquote have it out with Doc Holliday in a man to man fight. Now, the Holiday, being the kick ass dude that he is, was more than happy to oblige, and he comes out. He says he'll give Ringo any kind of fight that he wanted.

Doc specifically says he looks at Ringo and he says, all I want of you is ten paces out in the street. So one of the townspeople. Actually, this was seen by plenty of witnesses, including the Earps. One of the towns people described it in a journal and he said he described it as bad time expected with the cowboy leader in Dike Holliday. I passed both not knowing blood was up, one with hand in breast pocket and the other

possibly ready. He was referring to Dike Holliday, who was just standing there, just waiting for it to go down, says Earp's just beyond crowded streets and looked like another battle police vigilant for once. And both were disarmed. So if you can imagine Dic Holliday, He's got one hand in his breast pocket, he's got the other one on his revolver, ready to shoot, and he straight up tells Johnny Ringo, you know all, I wanted to use ten paces in the street. He was ready to go right there.

Now what happens is James Flynn, who is the acting town Marshal at the time, goes and grabs Ringo and held him while Wyatt pretty much hustled and got he got Doc Holliday out of there, and that was pretty much the extent of the confrontratation. No shots were fired, like I said, Wyatt, and there was a lot of other people witnessed to it. Now, according to Karen Holiday Tanner's biography, it was recorded in the journal of a

Tombstone resident, which is what I just read to you. Doc and Ringo were both arrested for carrying weapons on the street, and Ringo was actually retained on account of existing charges of robbery. Both were fined thirty dollars for carrying concealed weapons and doc was eventually released. Now, on January twenty third, eighteen eighty two, warrants are issued for Ike and Finclanton in the connection with a Virgil Earp shooting. Another guy named Pony Deal had warrant issued for a

stagecoach robbery. On January thirty first, eighteen eighty two, citizen of Tombstone demanded town meeting for the appointment of deputies who were not aligned with either faction of the parties who are now distracting the community. So basically, they wanted some kind of law enforcement that was not cowboy related and that was not involved with the Earps. The townspeople are telling Wiad Earp to resign, They don't want him anywhere around in town. But wid Earp does resign, and of

course his resignation is quote unquote conveniently ignored. Now. On February seventeenth, eighteen eighty two, Earp and Company Doc included leave Tombstone armed with a warrant for the arrest of Pony Deal for the suspected stagecoach robbery. While the robbery was unsuccessful. At this time, Earp and Doc they heard rumors that the clant In faction was planning revenge. So they're, like I said, there's

still a lot of tension going on. And by March eighteen eighty two, there are multiple death threats against Wide Earp, Doc Holliday, Morgan Earp, and a guy named Dan Tipton who was riding with them as well. So I mean Doc Holliday and the Earps, they're all getting death threats all the time, literally on a daily basis, from all these cowboys. So on

March eighteenth, what happens. March eighteenth, eighteen eighty two, Morgan Earp is shot while playing pool with Bob Hatch at Campbell and Hatch's Saloon and billiard parlor. It's located right on Alan Street and Tombstone. He is struck in the back and he ends up dying right there on the pool table, while Wyatt is right there beside him. Now I have heard two separate accounts of

the following events. It is known that Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday were also very very good friends, and some actually suggest that they were better friends than Wyatt himself. They actually got along quite a bit. So the next cham of events, the one side is that Doc pretty much flips out and he goes around kicking indoors to all these places, and he's looking for the killers, and he's telling everybody on the street he's going to kill anybody that's responsible,

and at that same time, Wyatt swears revenge as well. Wyatt and Doc then began the Vendetta ride against the cowboys, which is what we're about to get into. But I also heard the other side of that story was that Wyatt Earp himself actually took a cowboy as a human shield with a gun to his head and went around kicking indoors doing the same thing, looking for

the killers and swearing revenge on whoever killed his brother right then. But what ends up happening is Whyatt unless the help of Warren Arp, Sherman McMasters, Turkey Creek, Johnson, Texas, Jack Vermillion, and Doc Holiday And on March twentieth, eighteen eighty two, Wyatt and his posse escort the Earth Wives and Virgil along with Morgan's body. And Morgan's body is actually dressed in one

of Doc's tailored suits that he had given for the burial. And what they're doing is they're going to the railroad station because they're taking they're letting Virgil and the earth Wives, and they're taking Morgan's body out to California, which is where the Earp family had lived like their parents and stuff like that. So what happens is cowboys Ike Clanton and Frank Stillwell are at the train station.

Wyatt most likely killed Stillwell, who was found with multiple gunshot wounds. Now Wyatt has a shotgun and how it supposedly goes down is the first barrel of the shotgun rips through Stillwell's stomach, spends him around, and the second shot almost takes his leg clean off. And from all reports that I could read, after he was down on the ground, Doc Holliday walks up and puts

two more bullets in them us to make sure he's dead. What happens is a twoson Arizona Coroner's Jury named Wyatt, Warrenerp, Doc Holliday, Texas Jack, and McMasters as the men who killed Stillwell. Sheriff b Hand while he was there, he attempts to arrest Wyatt, Earp and the men, and they pretty much refused to comply and just rode off out of town. Doc and Wyatt both refused to be arrested by behnd for Stillwell's death, and a Tuson judge did issue warrants for their arrests. Now, as far as Wyatt

was concerned, the manning shot Virgil and killed Morgan were dead men. They did not care. And for Doc Holliday it was the same thing because those were his friends. As we all know, Dic Holliday did not have many friends whatsoever. The only reason that they were going to be living is if they hadn't been found by Dic Holliday and the Art brothers. And that was the way it was going to be. The killing of Stillwell's was just the

beginning, all right. Doc Holliday, like I said, he rode beside him the whole way, which is just a staple of his loyalty that he had for the few friends that he did have. On March twenty second, eighteen eighty one, Wyatt received word that Pete Spencer was at his wood camp in the Dragoons. The quote unquote federal posse rode there and found They didn't find Pete Spencer there, but they found a guy by the name of what

they referred to as Indian Charlie. His real name was Florentino Cruz. He was scared shitless when he saw these dudes right up and got you know, they pretty much got him. Now, he named all the men who murdered Morgan Earp, which was himself included. After he confessed to everything and gave all the names. Wyatter, Doc Holliday and the others just put a lot

of bull holes in that dude and shot him up pretty good. From what I understand, the jury did determine that Cruise had been killed by WIDERP WARRENERP Sherman, McMaster, Jack Johnson, Dic Holiday, Texas, Jack Dan Tipton, and or another guy named Charlie Smith. Now, on March twenty fourth, eighteen eighty two, Wyatt goes and he kills Curly Bill Barocius with a shotgun during a shootout with a whole bunch of cowboys were there. And it's

a place called Burley Springs. Now, the thing about it is is the exact location of the meeting place is unknown. There's a lot of conflicting reports. One of them is Burly Springs, another one is Iron Springs, another one is Cottonwood Springs. But it is thought that the exact location is Iron Springs. Located in the wet Stone Mountains. Cowboy named Johnny Barnes and others were also gone down. According to Doc in a later newspaper interview, his

and Wyatt's escape from the shootout is nothing short of miraculous. He indicates that that basically God was on their side that day. Now, according to all accounts, and this is not just Whyatt's posse, this is also from cowboy accounts, Wyatt stood his ground during a battle, literally stood there firing while he's getting shot at, while everyone else took cover. During this heavy shootout, Doc was the only one that rode forward Texas Jack. He was on

his horse, and his horse got shot from underneath him. So Doc rode up and under huge, huge amounts of fire, grabbed Texas Jack, put him on his horse, and got him out of there. Which I mean, as we've come to know from Doc Holiday, the dude legit had a set of balls. He did not care. He knew he was on borrow time, didn't care if he lived or died, so this would be totally

in his character. Now, on March twenty fifth, eighteen eighty two, Sheriff B Hand forms a posse of twenty five men and they're comprised of all known criminals, and this would include cowboys, Johnny Ringo and a bunch of other ones. And what they do is he deputizes them and he sets them

out to find Doc Holiday and Wyat Earp and all their little posse. And during April May of eighteen eighty two, Doc and Wyatt's posse they get provisions, they get a little bit of money, they get some ammo, they get some weapons, fresh horses, and they get that guy named Henry Hooker's ranch. While they're there, Doc goes and he sends off this taunting letter to the local newspaper and Tombstone, and he's pretty much mocking the entire Sheriff

be Hand posse. The letter is written out of torn sheets from an account book and it's dated in Camp April fourth, eighteen eighty two, and it's signed quote yours respectfully one of them end quote. And it's so funny because it presents a response to the article in the Nugget which was on March thirty first, which was uncomplimentary of the Earth Posse. It's basically the Tombstone Nugget.

They were very very in favor of Behand. They were on the cowboys side, so any chance they got, they would totally be rate the herbs and Doc holiday. So that's why Doc went ahead and did that. And it's really funny because in the response, Doc terms the cowboys and be Hand as quote, honest ranchers, and he does it with a lot of irony. And he also suggests that there might have been trouble near camp if the bee Hand posses quote trailing abilities had been equal to those of the average Arizona

ranchmen. And it's so funny because he keeps referring to them as gentlemen, and literally, I'm not even quoting this for him, Like in the letter, Doc purposely quotes these words and does that just to mock them because he's,

as we all know, he's extremely Wetty's very smart. Now, there is no definitive proof that Doc was the one who wrote these letters, but based on other letters that Doc had written, all historians agree that there's literally no doubt that Doc was actually the one who wrote these letters because of him being sarcastic and ironic and the way he was speaking. He was very, very refined. So you know why I didn't Warren Earp and Doc Holliday did

remain in Arizona Territory until April. They were pretty reluctant to leave. They had been writing over the countryside. They were just hoping to encounter Ringo Johnny, Ringo, Clanton, Spencer, and Swelling. They didn't know where the guys were, and in all actuality, all the dudes were hiding out in Mexico at this point in time, so they were writing for about three weeks. The whole Vendettoride in total was about three weeks, with the Okay Corral

and the events beforehand, starting with the killing of Old Man Clanton. Within a about a year's time, the number of cowboy outlaws that had been killed were Old Man Clanton, Billy Clanton, Frank mcloughery, Tom Mclowery, Frank Stillwell, Indian Charlie, Dixie Gray, Florentino Cruise, which is the same guy as Indian Charlie. I don't know why I put both of them in there, but Curly Bill Brocius, which his death is still a little bit

questionable because supposedly after the gunfight he was never heard from again. Wyatt Earp and somebody else actually came forward in later years that would include one of the cowboys also said that Whyat Earp was the one who killed Curly Bill and just gave him a burial out of the middle of nowhere, But technically he was just never heard from again, so the cowboys, to save a little bit

of face, said that he took off to Mexico into hiding. Also killed were Johnny Barnes, Jim Crane, Henry head Bill, Leonard Joe Hill, Luther King, Charlie snow Billie Laning, Swing Hunt, Billy Grounds, and Hank Swilling. Pete Spencer volunteered to go to the penitentiary for his own safety. He literally volunteered to go to fucking prison. He ended up serving about a year and a half of a five year sentence and then was let out.

According to all accounts that I read, Dic Holiday was supposedly responsible for most of these cowboy killings. The rest were split up between Wyat Earp and some of the other guys in the posse. When him and Earp left Tombstone for good, pretty much what they did was they rode their horses to Silver City, New Mexico, they sold them, They rode a stage to Demming and on April fifteenth, they boarded a train for Colorado, and like I said, you know, April fifteenth, wiat Earp and a lot of his

guys. When they get to Colorado, they stay in Trinidad with a bat Masterson, and from there they pretty much split up and had their separate ways. On April twenty ninth, eighteen eighty two, Doc Holliday and Dan Tipton they had to Pueblo, Colorado, and then a little bit further in the

future they had to Denver. Now. In May eighteen eighty two, while in Pueblo, Colorado, a guy named Perry Mallen approached Doc Holliday for the first time during the second week of May and the Theater Co meet in Pueblo, Colorado. This guy, he's a small, little bearded guy, and he informed Doc Holliday that the brother of Frank Stillwell was looking for Doc and wanted to kill him. Doc Holliday had no reason to doubt this info because

he had lots of people that were out looking to kill him. So Doc Holliday being Doc Holliday, he asks the guy to point out Stillwell's brother. This guy Mallin refused to do so, so about another week later, also in eighteen eighty two, Obviously, Holiday and two other gamblers had taken a

train to Denver to attend some horse races. Now, on May fifteenth, he was walking near the corner of sixteenth and Lawrence Streets in Denver, and Holiday was forced to surrender when this guy, Perry Mallon appeared out of the darkness and leveled two revolvers at him. Now what ended up happening was Mallon claimed to be a lawman from California. He had the help of a local

deputy sheriff named Charles Linton. They escorted Holiday to the sheriff's office. Now Mallon convinced Linton that Doc was wanted an Arizona territory for murder and that the reward was offered for his arrest. Now, while he was at the sheriff's office, Mallon kept the two six shooters aimed at Holiday the entire time because he was literally scared to death of Doc Holliday. Holiday was sentting here protesting. You know, He's like, dude, no, this isn't right.

I mean, in all honesty, there really was some warrants out for his arrest for murder. But They end up calling for a transport and they transport him to the county jail. Mallon also goes on and claims that Doc was in Utah Territory as well for the murder of a guy named Harry White, which was said to be this guy's partner in law. Well, what ends

up happening is that this Perry Mallon was pretty much a con man. He's basically telling all these stories about how he's been pursuing Doc Holliday for seven years and Doc Holliday was the reason he had his middle finger shot off. They end up finding out that Perry Mallen is totally full of shit. They let Doc go. What also happens and not too much longer after that, is Doc, while still in Denver, is taken into custody by a bounty hunter

who was hired by the b Handon Cowboy faction. He is arrested for the killing of Frank Stillwell in Arizona, and charges are dropped because bat Masterson basically creates a bunch of trumped up charges against Doc Holliday which would allow him to

not be extradited to Arizona like Governor of Colorado. Because of these trumped up charges, ends up refusing to honor Arizona's request to extradite Doc Holliday for the murder of Frank Stillwell, now I know, as we've come to find out, Bat Masterson not a huge fan of Doc Holliday, not a huge fan at all. But what it was was they had worked together previously. They didn't like each other, but they had a mutual respect for each other.

And above that, Bat Masterson and White Earp were very good friends. And why Earp owed Doc Holliday his life. So that's how all that went down. While he's in jail, a lot of the newspapers are kind of going back and forth on how to portray Doc while he's in jail. You know, some are calling him a murderer. Others are calling him a justified lawman who was deputized. But all of them describe him as well dressed, usually rest neatly in black and with a colored linen shirt, tall, slender,

delicate, handsome, soft spoken, sophisticated. He has described as one man as being a man of considerable culture, and another one describes him as having a soft voice in a modest manner. And then you have another one that says, you know, he has these piercing blue eyes. You have yet another one that says, you know, he has this well defined look of determination, you know, and they describe his hands of being somewhat small and

slender. And it's so funny because the report, all these reporters are just like, this is Dic Holiday. They literally describe him as an elegant man with a polite and refined personality. And it's so funny because when they actually see him for the first time, compared to what his reputation was, they're just like, there's no way this is Dic Holiday. So it's it's really interesting to read different accounts on Dic Holiday throughout the years, especially in this

time period when his reputation was so fucking vast. And speaking of his reputation, I mean, even the people in Georgia did not know about the shooting at the Okay Corral. Now, even though Doc was technically justified, he was with the posse and he was with the earps when they did this.

They made it a point. Now we don't know if it was actually Doc Holliday himself or his dad that did it, but they purposely left the shooting at the okay, corral out of the newspapers so that Doc Holliday's family name would not look bad. Now. Like I said, I've read plenty of things that say it was Doc Holliday that letter to her sent a telegraph ahead and was like, listen, this is what happened. To keep this out

of the papers because I don't want my family to look bad. I've also read other accounts to where it was his dad who purposely did it after he had found out ahead of time from Doc Holliday. So we're not exactly sure about about how that goes. But while he's in jail in Denver, Doc is defending himself. He's doing a lot of interviews and he pretty much talks about the conspiracy you know, by Sheriff b Han and the cowboys and all

this other shit. And after all this legal maneuverings that bat Masterson is doing, he helps Doc get released on bail. And it's really weird because this is the one time that bat Masterson actually makes statements to defend Doc Holliday's character, and he says, quote, I tell you all of this talk is wrong about Holiday. I know him well. He is a dentist and a good one. So it's kind of defending his character, but it's kind of saying, Okay, he's kind of a piece of shit guy, but he's

a hell of a good dentist. But he's also kind of saying, you know, you guys are saying this dude's a stone cold killer, but he's not. Like it's all rumors and all this other shit. So, I mean, it was kind of defending him kind of not you know what I'm saying. So that was pretty interesting. Now, in June eighteen eighty two,

Doc meets up with Wyatt, Earp and Gunnison. While he's there, he has interviewed briefly by a reporter, and at first Doc tells him quote, I'm not traveling about the country in search of notoriety, and I think you newspaper fellows have already had a fair hack at me. End quote. He does answer a few questions about the background and the recent troubles in Denver, you know, with his arrest and a lot. I mean, that

was a really huge deal at the time. He does kind of mention he's smiling while he mentions the bounty hunter that was hired by b hand It had left town four days before he was released from jail, and he indicates his intention to mind his own business and let others do the same Again this journey list, a separate one describes him as having piercing dark blue eyes and being dressed all in black, which you know, which was pretty signature of Doc

Holiday for the most part. In July of eighteen eighty two, Doc reunites with Wyat just outside Salida, Colorado. Wyatt and docs many newspaper interviews at this time may have been part of an attempt to establish their whereabouts legitimately, but they have disappeared from public view abruptly that July. Now check this out. Now I've heard all three days. It's either July thirteenth, fourteenth,

or eighteenth. Like I said, I had read all three dates. Eighteen eighty two, a guy named John Yost, who is bound for a place called Morse's Sawmill, discovers a dead man in West Turkey Creek Canyon, east of Dragoon Mountains. The body was sitting in the intertwined limbs of an oak tree, and there was a bullet that had entered the right temple and exited through the top of the head, and the gun supposedly used was a cult revolver. The dead man was one of the famous cowboys, Johnny Ringo.

Yost quickly notified the sheriff of the grizzly find, which technically suicide was suggested by some members of the coroner's jury, but most people disagreed. They did not agree on who had shot him, only that somebody had shot him. What they say happened is that Wide Rupe and Doc Holliday returned to Arizona and had a rendezvous with a few friends named Fred Dodge, Oregon Smith, Johnny Greene, John Meager, and one other, probably by the name of Lou

Cooley. They were near Henry Hooker's ranch. Now a short time later they all had taken the trail towards Galliville. Johnny Ringo had been spotted while camped on Turkey Creek, and when he ran up a canyon, Wyatt had shot him. The body had been placed between the oak trees. Bat Masterson, Wore Earp and some newspaper friends helped establish alibis for Wyatt. Earp and Doc

Holliday. They really don't know if Johnny Ringo committed suicide. The official ruling was a suicide, but a lot of people say that Wyatt Earp killed him. A lot of people say that Doc Holliday killed him. Nobody really knows, but it's pretty much all agreed by historians that the suicide was not the cause of death. For one, his hat was still on his head when he was found up against this tree. His gun belt was on upside down, one of the guns was sitting on the other side of his body.

So it is pretty much agreed upon that he was killed, but nobody really knows by who, And because of all these alibis, it's hard telling. But some historians believe Ringo committed suicide and that Doc was in Pueblo, Colorado at the time of his death. Now, Karen Holiday Tanner, she does point out in her book that Doc was not in Pueblo at the time. The reason that they say he was in Pueblo, Colorado at this time is

because he was supposed to be in court on July eleventh. They say that he did show up in court himself, but in all actuality, an attorney appeared on his behalf that day. The wording of the court was that they said in propara persona, which means in his own proper person. Now, that was standard legal filler text at the time, and that didn't actually mean that the person was there at all. Now, you also got to consider the fact that the Pueblo charge which he was Doc was charged for larceny at

that point in time, and that was a fake charge. That was one of the charges that was trumped up by Bab Masterson to provide an obstacle for his extra addition back to Arizona. So even though the authorities were unaware of this, they had no real urgency for him actually to be there to face like a bogus charge. You know, there's no question that the case was continued more than once, and all of the times it was continued is because

Doc was not present at the court at that time. It is stated that Doc for sure did arrive in Celida on July seventh, because the newspaper reported his arrival in town. Karen Holiday Tanner does believe that he met there with Wyatt and others just west of town that day. This account is based on statements supposedly made by Josie Marcus Earp, which was Wyatt's wife at the time. Doc's next document appearance was in Leadville on July eighteenth, which was the

very date that his bogus poeblo court case was again continued. So if Doc did kill Ringo, why it may have claimed to killing himself to protect Doc's reputation since Doc had no legal authority to actually kill Johnny Ringo, and why it did at this point, So there's a lot of speculation that whyatt did claim to kill Johnny Ringo just to protect Doc Holiday from being incarcerated and protect

his reputation. Like I said, nobody really knows the circumstances of Johnny Ringo's death, Okay, but whyatt earp did accept responsibility for the death of Johnny Ringo and Karen Holliday. Tanner also goes on to point out that he did have the means, he had the motive, he had the opportunity, and a confession that would convict in most courts, which why E did later on confess to it. So you know, there's that little bit of information for

you. A little bit later, on eighteen eighty two, the Tombstone trouble is pretty much over with by now, and Doc and Leadville, Colorado Nobleshit dying of TV and he's down to literally about one hundred and twenty two pounds. At this point in time, he helps fight a fire in Leadville, Colorado, and he has They all the people who were involved in it said he pretty much showed no regard for his own personal safety while he was fighting

this fire. So I thought that was a really cool fact to throw in there about him being in Leadville, Colorado, because around this time period, he's really traveling between Leadville, Pueblo and Denver. He's going back and forth quite a bit. Now in eighteen eighty three, eighty four, you know, he's back in Colorado. Like I said, he's he has several bouts with pneumonia at this point in time, which and it affects his tuberculosis and

it leaves him like really really emaciated, and he's very very weak. Like I said, he had dropped from about one hundred and sixty pounds down to about one hundred and twenty pounds. And right now at this point in his life, he's very very dependent on laudanum, which is like a liquid pain killer. It's like an opiate. He's drinking a lot of whisk A lot of reports say he's drinking up to two quarts of whiskey a day. Big Nose Kake goes on to say, no, he would only sip a little

bit of whiskey throughout the day to ease the pain. Several eyewitnesses who knew Doc Holliday straight up said, man, this guy was literally pounding whiskey as fast as he could, drinking law in him because he was literally in so much pain from tuberculosis. But what happens is Holliday ends up going back to Leadville, and he's pretty much living quietly there for a long time and until he runs into some old enemies. He runs into Johnny Tyler and Billy Allen.

What happens is Billy Allen is armed and he's making threats. He's saying he's gonna kill Doc Holliday. He's telling everybody in town all this. So Doc Holliday is on all points. He's paranoid as shit. Let alone, he's like totally fucked up, out of his mind and trying to ease the pain of his tuberculosis the best he can. So in August nineteenth, eighteen eighty four, Holliday goes into Hyman's Saloon and he placed himself at the end

of the bar because he had seen Billy Allen walking down the sidewalk. So as soon as Billy Allen crossed the threshold, Holliday leveled as a revolver and fired and he hit Alan in the right arm. Now Alan fell to the floor and he's screaming. So Doc Holliday rushes and he goes back behind the cigar case and he leaned over and he fires again, and the second bullet barely misses Alan's head just by a little bit, just by a little bit.

And Doc leveled his revolver again, getting ready to take another shot, and a couple guys in the bar pretty much disarmed him, tackled him to the ground or whatever. Now what it was. Doc had borrowed five bucks I think it was from Billy Allen and he had not paid it back, and Billy Allen straight up told him. He's like, if you don't give me my five dollars back, I'm gonna kill you. And that's pretty much where all that came from. Doc explains his actions to the paper the next

day and he does get arrested. He does, and he's able to establish in the court that his life was threatened. He was later exonerated of the shooting, and it was a ruled self defense, and his basic defense was he literally went in there and he's like, listen, this guy has been threatening to kill me all over town. He outweighs me by fifty pounds. He basically says something to the effect of, you know, I would be a baby in his arms if he got a hold of me, like I

had no other choice, and it actually works. He ends up getting off on self defense. Now, there were a lot of people who were surprised that Doc was found not guilty by the jury. No one could recall that Doc was extremely ill at this point and Doc had not ever cared about his life, and because he was so ill, they could have gone either way. You know. They really people who were there, they said that they

don't remember Doc Holiday actually being that ill, you know. So it was it was a very fifty fifty outcome when Doc was found not guilty by the jury. So, you know, at this point, like I said, Doc keeps traveling back and forth between Leadville and Denver. He's in Denver because of his reputation and his legal problems there in the past. The law enforcement truly fucking hates him. They do not like this dude whatsoever. Now, in eighteen eighty six, according to some sources, he sees why It Earp

for the last time at the Windsor Hotel in Denver, Colorado. Now Josie Earp goes on to report that the emaciated Doc he had a continuous coffin, is so weak that he can't even stand steadily at this point. And Holiday

Tanner's biography about Doc Holiday, she really doesn't say anything about that. What is known as that why it was traveling with Josephine Sarah Marcus asked his wife, which as we know that was Josie, and they were in and out of Colorado in eighteen eighty four, in eighteen eighty five, and he was operating a saloon at that time in Aspen. But while he was in town in those years, he never really made any kind of effort to get ahold

of Doc Holliday, even though he knew that he was in Denver. Now, when they did meet at the Denver Hotel in eighteen eighty six, Josephine, it's really the only account of their last goodbye. She says that the Earps were sitting at the lobby when they saw quote a thinner, more delicate appearing Doc Holliday than I had seen in Tombstone end quote, and he was

walking towards Wyatt and Josie. Now, Wyatt immediately got up to greet him, and they sat down nearby and talked for a while, and Doc Holliday says, you know, when I heard you were in Denver, I wanted to see you once more, for I can't last much longer. You can see that now, Josie says, quote, my husband was affected by this parting from a man who, like an ailing child, had clung to him as though to derive strength from him, which is a very very weird way

to twist. Doc Holiday like he was dependent on Wyatt Earp like a child to a father, which I really didn't appreciate that, and I'm not sure she was very weird. And later interviews with Wyatt Earp, and when we do the wide Earp episode, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. She says, quote, there were tears in Wyatt's eyes. When at last they took leave of each other, Doc threw his arm across his shoulder and said, goodbye, old friend. It will be a long time before we meet

again, and they parted and they'd never saw each other again. Now, in August of eighteen eighty six, after Denver authorities arrested Holiday for vagrancy, he returned to Leadville, where he still had friends, only a couple. And in May of eighteen eighty seven, he did go to Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and he what he was doing was he went to Glenwood Springs,

Colorado because there were some sulfur vapors there. His health is getting very, very bad at this point in time, and it was stated by a lot of people who had suffered from tuberculosis that they could go to the Hot Springs and Glenwood Springs inhale the sulfur vapors and that would help easier tuberculosis and all actuality. It worked the exact opposite way. It actually, it actually sped up his health problems and it made him a lot sicker. And what he

did, there was no sanitarium there for anybody suffering from tuberculosis. So he ends up going to the hotel Glenwood. And this was a hotel that catered to those that were hoping to be healed by the Yampa Hot Springs. Nothing could be done for Doc at this point in time, as tuberculosis was far advanced for a very short while. He actually still tries dealing faroh. But by September he is just two week and he becomes bedridden. While he's in

bed, I mean he's getting sores. The tuberculosis is basically eating his body from the inside out. The dude is in so much pain. This terminal stage of tuberculosis is described by a nineteenth century physician, and he says the emaciation is frightful and the most mournful change is witnessed. The cheeks are hollow, rendering the expression harsh and painful. The eyes are commonly sunken in their sockets and often look morbidly bright and staring. At this point, throat ulcers

made eating difficult, and speech was limited to a hoarse whisper. Once the distinctive graveyard cough began, diagnosis was certain and death inevitable. Rarely, he wrote, life wasted to the most feeble spark, and it goes out almost insensibly. More typically, they would have severe stomach cramps, excessive sweating, a choking sensation, vomiting blood. I mean, just the most painful excruciate, one of the most painful, excruciating desks you could ever imagine at this

point, and Doc Holidays going through this. Now, he spent the last fifty seven days of his life in bed in a half comatose state, and he was delirious for fourteen of them. The delirium was more than likely induced and intensified by the combination of the extreme illness that he was suffering from and his addiction to laudanum, which obviously Doc can't take himself, so Kate is providing him laudanum in order to ease his pain. And Doc does run out

of money, but Kate takes money out of her savings. She takes all the money that she has to help support him in his final days. Now, I did read one report, actually I read a couple different places. Whether it's confirmed or not, I tried my hardest to find out, but it is saying in these last fifty seven days, in his delirious and comatose state, that most of the people who would bring dinner up to Doc Holliday were greeted with two pistols pointing at them, and Doc ready to shoot them

because he had no clue what was going on. But he was still so used to living that life that he figured somebody was walking in the door to kill him. Every time somebody would do anything, just bringing up food to

him. So on the morning of November eighth, eighteen eighty seven, John Henry Holiday, known as Doc, awakens and he's clear eyed, he's clear headed, and he asked for a glass of whiskey, and it was given to him, and he drank it down with enjoyment, very slowly, and then he looks down at his feet and he says, quote, this is funny. And then he dies at the age of thirty six. Now, Doc Holliday claimed that he almost lost his life a total of nine times.

Four attempts were made to hang him, and he was shot at in a gunfight or from ambush five times. His few remaining belongings were sent back to Georgia, along with a straight razor, a small knife, some gambling items, and the Holiday family did receive Doc's trademark diamond stockpen, but when they

did get it, the diamond was gone. I know a lot of you were wondering why he looked down at his feet his final days, and literally his last words were this is funny because of the life that Doc Holliday lived. He thought that he was going to die with his boots on. He purposely made it his goal to die in a gunfight. He wanted to go out, he wanted to go out quick, and it just never happened.

So when he looked down, took his final breath and looked at his feet, he never thought for a second that he would die die in a bed. So Holiday ends up going to be buried in Lynnwood Cemetery, which is

on the top of a smaller mountain overlooking Glenwood Springs. Now, Holiday did die in November, and the grounds may have been frozen, and a lot of authors do speculate that it would have been impossible to transport him to the cemetery, which was only accessible by one road up the side of the mountain, all right, and a lot of reports that I read because they wouldn't have been able to get him up the side of that mountain because of the

weather being so bad. They actually buried him at the base of the mountain, and they were going to transport him in the spring when all the snow had melted in the ground was softer and he was able to be buried, and what happened when springtime came around is that they just pretty much left him

there. So if you know anybody that lives around the base of Limb in the Wood Cemetery that overlooks Glenwood Springs, if there's houses or residential some kind of anything around there, there's a good chance that Doc Holliday is buried somewhere

near there. Nobody really knows. Now, granted, there are a lot of authors nowadays that say that, well, you know, it probably didn't happen, because there's other accounts of other people being buried that exact same time of year, and they got up the mountain just find as you guys know, I always go by what I read more of, and there are more accounts from people who were there that say he was buried at the base of the mountain and he was actually left there. Nobody came back to bury him

the following springs. So but I want to end on a quote from Virgil Earp. Virgil Earp and Doc Holliday weren't that good of friends. Okay, you know they were acquaintances, But Virgil was also known as a very fair man, very fair man and a very honest man, and he knew Doc about as good as anybody else, did any of the Art Brothers. In May of eighteen eighty two, when he's doing an interview with the Arizona Daily Star, Virgil Ert had this to say about Doc Holiday. There was something

very peculiar about Doc. He was gentlemanly, a good dentist, a friendly man, and yet outside of us boys, I don't think he had a friend in the territory. Tales were told that he had murdered men in different parts of the country, that he had robbed and committed all manner of crimes, and yet when persons were asked how they knew it, they could only admit that it was hearsay and that nothing of the kind could really be traced

to Doc's account. He was a slender, sickly fellow. But whenever a stage was robbed or a row started, and help was needed, Doc was one of the first to saddle up his horse and report for duty. A minute a minute, a minute, a minute, and