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John Henry Holliday (August 14, 1851 [1]: 13 – November 8, 1887), better known as Doc Holliday, was an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter who was a close friend and associate of lawman Wyatt Earp. Holliday is best known for his role in the events surrounding and his participation in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona ...
Wyatt and Holliday had been fast friends since Holliday saved Earp's life in Dodge City three years prior. [63] Wyatt was staying with prominent businessman Henry N. Jaffa, who was also president of the local board of trade, and first Mayor of Albuquerque. [106] Like Marcus, Jaffa was Jewish. [105]
According to the book I Married Wyatt Earp, which author and collector Glen Boyer claimed to have assembled from manuscripts written by Earp's third wife, Josephine Marcus Earp, Earp and Doc Holliday returned to Arizona with some friends in early July and found Ringo camped in West Turkey Creek Valley.
Morgan Earp was standing on Fremont Street to Wyatt's right, and Doc Holliday anchored the end of their line in Fremont Street, a few feet to Morgan's right. [106] Wyatt Earp drew a sketch in 1924 and another with John Flood on September 15, 1926, that depicted Billy Clanton near the middle of the lot, close to the Harwood house. Tom and Frank ...
Wyatt and Holliday, who had been fast friends since Holliday saved Earp's life in Dodge City during 1878, [70] had a serious disagreement and parted ways in Albuquerque. [71] According to a letter written by former New Mexico Territory Governor Miguel Otero , Wyatt and Holliday were eating at The Retreat Restaurant in Albuquerque owned by "Fat ...
Clanton had told others that Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, and Morgan Earp had all confided in him that they had actually been involved in the Benson stage robbery. On October 25, 1881, while Clanton was in Tombstone, drunk and very loud, Holliday accused him of lying about the Benson stagecoach robbery.
My Darling Clementine is a 1946 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp during the period leading up to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The ensemble cast also features Victor Mature (as Doc Holliday), Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Cathy Downs and Ward Bond.
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is the first Western television series written for adults. [1] [2] It premiered four days before Gunsmoke on September 6, 1955. [3] Two weeks later came the Clint Walker western Cheyenne. The series is loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp.