Those who have come to know Doc Holliday take him pretty seriously. It might be said that Holliday’s stock and measure has risen to the degree that it sometimes threatens to eclipse even his best friend Wyatt Earp, the same way, and for some of the same reasons, that Keith Richards has come to often overshadow his fellow Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger. It’s a question of taste and temperament, but the consumptive, quick-tempered dentist from Georgia who stood beside the Earps behind the O.K.


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