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Doc
was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom
disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had
made a caustic wit; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with
consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the
nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a gun that I ever knew.
—Wyatt
Earp
Doc Holliday was
afraid of nothing on earth.
—Bat
Masterson
Doc Holliday, Prescott, Arizona, 1880
This site is dedicated to the enduring memory of one fascinating
southern gentleman, gunman, and "lunger," immortalized, for
better or worse, in the historical records of the American West and in the
stories and images of popular culture. Curious to discover the truth about
this little-understood man? Interested in determining the accuracy,
or lack thereof, of film depictions of Doc? Wondering where you can view
an authentic photo? This site was
created as a repository for factual remnants of his amazing, and
brief, life.
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