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Is Doc Holliday in This Photo, or Not?

by | May 6, 2021 | Features & Gunfights

An old photo is reexamined by the world’s top Doc Holliday expert. “Doc Holliday is ten feet tall and weighs a ton.” —Tucson Daily Star, June 11, 1882 J.J. Webb at the Old Town Las Vegas Jail, 1880This photo first came to our attention when it appeared in Frederick Nolan’s book The West of Billy the Kid. Nolan published it, in part, because the Kid spent time in this jail in December 1880, when Pat Garrett escorted


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