An old photo is reexamined by the world’s top Doc Holliday expert. “Doc Holliday is ten feet tall and weighs a ton.” —Tucson Daily Star, June 11,...
Is Doc Holliday in This Photo, or Not?
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Doc Holliday
No Holiday for Holliday Doc kept very busy in the mid 1880s.
For Doc Holliday, 1884-1885 was a booming period. In August 1884, he and Billy Allen got sideways over a $5 debt that Doc failed to repay. Doc took...
A Last Meeting of Father and Son Doc and Henry Holliday secretly saw each other in New Orleans.
Doc Holliday was estranged from his father Henry, probably as of the early 1870s, for a variety of reasons. And when he went West and took on a...
The Tom Jonas Map Quest
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at what it took to get a map of the location of Doc Holliday’s Saloon in Las Vegas, New Mexico (“Classic Gunfights,”...
The Legends of Dirty Dave Rudabaugh received a lot of myth-making over time.
There are a lot of legends surrounding bad man Dave Rudabaugh. First, there’s no evidence that he was called “Dirty Dave” during his lifetime—or...
Weapons In The Court? A claim that the Earps and Holliday had guns during their hearing.
Will McLaury, brother of the late Frank and Tom first attended the Spicer Hearing into the OK Corral gunfight on November 4, 1881. In a letter, he...
Overwhelming Grief The McLaury’s brother suffered a great loss even before the gunfight.
Attorney Will McLaury was the older brother of Frank and Tom, two of the Cowboys killed at the OK Corral. He assisted out with the prosecution of...
Doc Holliday: Was he as good with a gun and a knife as he was portrayed in the movie “Tombstone”? Movies are to entertain, not necessarily to educate.
No he wasn't, but then neither was Johnny Ringo nor were most of the other so-call “shooting stars of the silver screen.” Movies are to entertain,...
A Will For Payback A McLaury brother wants to get the Earps and Holliday—any way he can.
Will McLaury is in Tombstone in November 1881. He’s joined the prosecution, trying to hang the Earps and Doc Holliday for the OK Corral shootout. ...
Doc Comes To Town Holliday is called to Tombstone—and infamy.
On October 21, 1881, Wyatt Earp sends brother Morgan to Tucson to bring Doc Holliday back to Tombstone. Ostensibly, Doc is to calm Ike Clanton, who...
Eyewitness To Mayhem?
Did Big Nose Kate watch the Tombstone shootout?
Wyatt Earp: Good Guy Or Bad? “Wyatt Earp murdered at least three people when he wasn’t a lawman. In fact Arizona had a warrant out for him and Doc Holliday. Why is he considered a great man today?”
A True West reader asked me the other day, “Wyatt Earp murdered at least three people when he wasn’t a lawman. In fact Arizona had a warrant out for...