Look closely at the street scene from Silver City, New Mexico. Notice the skinny cat standing by the third stagecoach window, right hand in pocket, left hand on lapel. Could that man be John Henry “Doc” Holliday?
He does not appear to be throwing up blood, drunk, cranky or ready to draw down, but the man in the photo certainly resembles the revered gunfighter who participated in the 1881 Gunfight Behind the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
We know the Earp party, including our favorite t
September 2016
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Lost in the Wilderness
- Marshal Harvey Whitehill
- Crossroads of the West
- Fred Harvey Days
- Ghosts Going Gangbusters?
- John Hance, Grand Canyon’s Windjammer
- The Slopers
- My family connections include John Wesley Hardin and Clay Allison, both of whom had Tennessee ancestors. Did the outlaws ever meet?
- Big Wheel on the River
- Hot Times in Hillside Boom Towns
- Tombstone Jackpot
- Unsung Hero?
- A Western Life Well Lived
- The Loomis Gang
- Broken Lance
- Burt Alvord’s Train Robbing Posse
- Can a person ride his horse to death?
- The Fix
- Big Jim French
- A Barn Worth Saving
- Tom Horn, Roper Extraordinaire
- The Shoot Out in Holbrook
- A Defiant Outlaw-Hero Ballad
Departments
- Did American Indians have some version of bathrooms or latrines?
- What History Has Taught Me
- Eating Out
- On the Trail of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company
- What is the Hole-in-the-Wall Pass in Wyoming?
- Western Events for September 2016
- Did the Wild West era have any famous deaf people?
- The Shoots Far Gun
- Jesse James Tastes Blood
- What can you tell me about Jack Slade’s wife?