“Doc Holliday...He Died in Bed.”
Wow, who knew this deathbed twist would jolt True West’s Facebook fans to generate the first major top-rated feed in the magazine’s social media history? It is shocking that tuberculosis turned out to be the loaded gun that claimed the life of one of the Old West’s most iconic gunfighters.
That milestone post’s 7,500 views has long been beaten, but the ungovernable passion that drives folks to walk the weeds to locate a lone marker or tombstone,

June 2013
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- Mattie Earp Rests in Peace
- The Cowboy Artist’s Mentor
- The Bloody Bozeman
- Doc Hits Bottom (But Not Much Else)
- Gunfighter Graves
- Who was the first man killed by Billy the Kid?
- Who was Tombstone cowboy Frank Patterson?
- What is a “grass widow?”
- Colt’s Cavalry Pistol to the Rescue
- Guarding Custer’s Guidon
- Doc Holliday’s Lost Colorado Years
- Pistol Pete
- The Navajo War of 1913
- This Far-Off Wild Land
- Are there any photos of Curly Bill Brocius?
- The Red Man’s Bones
- During a stampede, did cowboys use guns to control the cattle?
- Pinedale, Wyoming
- A Feel-Good Story
- The Windsor Widow
- Custer’s Dash
- Drinking with the Friars
- June 2013 Events
- Top Five Koblas Reads
- A Lawless Breed
- Outlaws
- “A Killer is What They Needed”
- Rough Drafts 6/13
- Hardin Biopic
- IN THE WORKS
- Heaven’s Gate
- Which Dodge City dance hall star was shot in her sleep at the mayor’s home?