Did Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday’s fathers meet while serving in the Mexican-American War?
Marko Fancovic
Zagreb, Croatia
In 1847, Nicholas Earp joined the Illinois Mounted Volunteers to serve under his neighbor and commanding officer, Wyatt Berry Stapp, for whom Wyatt Earp was named. He was in Veracruz by November of that year and discharged the next month.
Henry Holliday, father of the gunfighter popularly known as Doc, was a member of Fannin’s Avengers, a group of Georgians named after
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