The actual gunfight took place off Fremont Street between Fly’s Photo Gallery and Jersey’s Livery Stable. Join us as we go in search of the real "Doc" Holliday. A fight ensued and Doc nearly cut Ryan’s head off with his lethal knife. This page contains a list of all candidates who ran in the 2020 Congress elections. He was moody, a heavy drinker, and with no fear of death, perhaps was more prone to the life he ended up living. On August 14, 1851, John Henry (Doc) Holliday was born. The Glenwood Springs cemetery sits high upon a steep hill overlooking the valley below. Behan only laughed. Major Holliday quickly became one of the town’s leading citizens, serving two terms as Mayor, acting as Secretary of the County Agricultural Society, a Member of the Masonic Lodge, Secretary of the Confederate Veterans Camp, and the Superintendent of local elections. Dedicated, he started practicing with a six-shooter and a long, wicked knife, honing his skills. When the Earps had arrived in Tombstone, the outlaw Clanton Gang had been running roughshod over the territory and immediately resented the Earps arrival. The rustlers tightened and Morgan and Doc simultaneously braced for action. Holliday faced a long legal process, his popularity notwithstanding, but on March 28, 1885, a jury found him not guilty of the shooting or attempted murder. Where the two forces finally met was actually 90 yards down an alley from the O.K. But the Leadville police kept a strict watch out for concealed weapons and no violence came to pass. Doc Holliday claimed he almost lost his life a total of nine times. The “Kid”, either wishing to make himself a reputation or very unaware of Doc’s gunmanship, wound up in the dusty street with two bullets. Consequently, the two split up, as they were destined to do many times during the remainder of Doc’s life. The Cowboys, as they were referred to, were often heard telling bar room stories of how they were going to send Wyatt Earp to Boot Hill. “Hell, this is your fight, not mine.”. In a news report only days later, the Leadville Daily Democrat August 26, 1884, stated, in part, the following: “The public sentiment, which has nothing to do with the law, is largely in favor of Holliday. Four attempts were made to hang him and he was shot at five times. By the winter of 1885, Holliday fearing a bout of pneumonia in the city in the clouds migrated to Denver. He had been the terror of the lawless element in Arizona, and with the Earps was the only man brave enough to face the bloodthirsty crowd which has made the name of Arizona a stench in the nostrils of decent men.”. Sadie Marcus described the skeletal Holliday as having a continuous cough and standing on “unsteady legs.”. Having become an expert shot, he was involved in three more gunfights in a short amount of time. Reaching over the tobacco counter, Doc fired again, hitting Allen in the right arm. Then John Behan, the County Sheriff, appeared pronouncing, ” Ike Clanton and his crew are on Fremont Street talking gun-talk.”  Evidently, Ike Clanton, the two McLaurys, Billy Clanton and Billy Claiborne were meeting in a vacant lot planning to bushwhack Doc Holliday, who passed that way every morning. Furious, Doc saddled his horse and headed out, winding up in Trinidad, Colorado. John Holliday Bobbitt (born October 15, 1937), known professionally as Johnny Holliday, is an American radio and TV sportscaster and a former Top 40 radio disc jockey.He has maintained a long association with the University of Maryland football and basketball teams and from 2007 to 2018 hosted a pre- and post-game television program for the Washington Nationals baseball team. If you would like to read more on the topic, here's a list: We love to hear from our listeners! Corral. However, he was still arrested and incarcerated in a local hotel room, there being no jail in the town. “I found him a loyal friend and good company. Eleanora Harris Fagan naît en 1915.Sa mère [2], Sarah Julia "Sadie" Harris [3] qui se faisait aussi appeler Sadie Fagan (nom de son grand père maternel) [4] d'origine irlandaise, a 13 ans et son père, Clarence Holiday, a 15 ans ; il est musicien professionnel. He always figured he would be killed with his boots on. Though he did not improve in Denver, he was able to see his old friend, Wyatt Earp in the late winter of 1886, where they met in the lobby of the Windsor Hotel. A friend to Wyatt Earp, he was deputized in Tombstone, Arizona before the famous gunfight at the O.K. Wyatt visited the largest saloon in town, Shanssey’s asking about Rudabaugh. But, her legacy extends way beyond music with one song in particular — "Strange Fruit." Finally, settling down in Denver, he assumed the name of Tom Mackey, while dealing Faro at Babbitt’s House. Shortly afterward, Kate was running a boarding house in Globe, Arizona, some 175 miles away from Tombstone. Relatively unknown for a while, that changed when he got involved in an argument with Bud Ryan, a well-known gambling tough. Though Dodge City citizens thought the friendship between Wyatt and Doc was strange, Wyatt ignored them and Doc kept to the law while in Dodge City. In the early summer of 1880, the two reached Tombstone. Marshal. His obituary, appearing in the Leadville Carbonate Chronicle on November 14, 1887, stated the following: “There is scarcely one in the country who had acquired a greater notoriety than Doc Holliday, who enjoyed the reputation of being one of the most fearless men on the frontier, and whose devotion to his friends in the climax of the fiercest ordeal was inextinguishable. Making stops along the way in Pueblo, Leadville, Georgetown and Central City, he left three more dead bodies in his wake. However, he arrived only to find that Wyatt had gone to a new silver strike, in a place called Tombstone, Arizona. Knowing that the mob would quickly overtake the local lawmen, “Big Nose” Kate devised a plan to free Doc from his confines. After this latest confrontation, the outlaws retreated in a group around the corner off Allen Street. He never believed that he would die in bed. The Earps passed by the O.K. Wyatt and Tom McLaury, both hearing what had happened, met at the judge’s door at the same time, literally bumping into each other. (Last Privacy Policy Update July 2020), Byways & Historic Trails – Great Drives in America, Soldiers and Officers in American History. In just over a year, the Earp “posse” along with Doc Holliday eliminated “Old Man” Clanton, Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury, Frank Stilwell, Indian Charlie, Dixie Gray, Florentino Cruz, Johnny Barnes, Jim Crane, Harry Head, Bill Leonard, Joe Hill, Luther King, Charley Snow, Billy Lang, Zwing Hunt, Billy Grounds and Hank Swilling. What happened next was a blur, occurring in about 30 seconds. The thin and weakened doctor knew that a career as a gambler was a dangerous profession, requiring that he have the means to protect himself.