Holliday, John, ‘Doc’ (1849–1887), a friend of the US
marshal Wyatt Earp. He fought on the side of Earp and his brothers in the
gunfight at the
OK Corral. He was a
gambler and
dentist, and one of the most dangerous gunfighters of the wild west. He died of
tuberculosis.
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