By 1887, Doc Holliday was in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, taking in the healing waters, trying to nurse his lungs that had been ravaged by tuberculosis. But the sulfur from those waters might have done him in. Bedridden by the fall of that year, Doc died in the Glenwood Springs Hotel on November 8 at the age of 36, by some accounts, prematurely gray and rail-thin. Enter one William Forsyth McIlwraith. Born in Ontario, Canada, in 1867, he moved to the U.S. in 1887. On his way to Oregon, he went
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