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Was “Doc” a Prolific Killer?

by | Sep 25, 2018 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

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Was “Doc” a prolific killer? Jim McCall Chico, California No. John Henry “Doc” Holliday’s only confirmed kill was Tom McLaury at the O.K. Corral gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, on October 26, 1881. He possibly killed Mike Gordon in Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, in 1879, but many bullets were flying that night; his shot may not have been the fatal one. Holliday did get into a fair amount of trouble. In 1873, he reportedly shot at black youngsters in his uncle’s swimmi


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