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Trailing Doc Holliday through Colorado

by | Jun 1, 2005 | Travel & Preservation

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Doc Holliday first saw Denver in 1876. Although his reputation was made in Texas, Dodge City and certainly Tombstone, it was to Colorado that he headed when he wanted to put trouble behind him. Born John Henry Holliday on August 14, 1851, in Griffin, Georgia, he graduated from Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1872, after which he practiced dentistry in Atlanta and then Griffin. But when a nagging cough was diagnosed as tuberculosis, he quit Georgia and headed to Texas, where he k


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