biography
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Holliday, Doc
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popular name of John Henry Holliday
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| male
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| lived:
| (1852–87)
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| biography:
| Gambler, gunslinger, and dentist, baptised at Griffin, Georgia, USA. After attending the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery (1872), he moved to Dallas, but soon adopted a life of gambling, drinking, and gunfighting. He drifted his way through the West, and in Dodge City befriended Wyatt Earp, later becoming involved in the famous gunfight at the OK Corral, Tombstone (26 Oct 1881), between the Earp brothers and the Clanton gang. He died of tuberculosis a few years later. |
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