John "doc" Holliday (1851-87) Photo W/ Signature For Sale

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JOHN "DOC" HOLLIDAY (1851-87) PHOTO w/ SIGNATURE

THIS GALLERY sale / STORE ITEM IS A COPY OF A 8 1/2"x 11" BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH WITH A REPRINTED SIGNATURE. THE PHOTO IS PRINTED ON A HIGH QUALITY GLOSSY WHITE HEAVY DUTY PAPER. THIS ITEM WILL MAKE A PERFECT ADDITION (MOUNTED, MATTED OR FRAMED) TO YOUR OFFICE, DEN, OR LIBRARY.

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John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter of the American Old West frontier who is usually remembered for his associations with Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

In 1870, 19 year-old Holliday left home to begin dental school in Philadelphia. On March 1, 1872, he received the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. Later that year he opened a dental office with Arthur C. Ford in Atlanta

Shortly after beginning his dental practice, Holliday was diagnosed with tuberculosis (generally called "consumption" in that era). It is possible Holliday contracted the disease from his mother, though no one would have thought this at the time as tuberculosis was not known to be contagious until 1882.

He was given only a few months to live, but thought moving to the drier and warmer southwestern United States might reduce the deterioration of his health.

Dodge was not a frontier town for long; by 1879 it had become too respectable for the kinds of people who had seen it through its early days. For many, it was time to move on to places not yet reached by the civilizing railroad, places money was being made. Holliday, by this time, was as well known for his gunfighter reputation as for his gambling, though the latter was his trade and the former simply a reputation. Through his friendship with Wyatt and the other Earp brothers, especially Morgan and Virgil, Holliday made his way to the silver-mining boom town of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in September 1880. The Earps had been there since December 1879, some accounts state the Earps sent for Holliday when they realized the problems they faced in their feud with the Cowboy faction. In Tombstone, Holliday quickly became embroiled in the local politics and violence that led up to the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in October 1881.

Holliday spent the rest of his life in Colorado. After a stay in Leadville, he suffered from the effects of the high altitude; as a result of this and his increasing dependence on alcohol and laudanum, often taken by consumptives to ease their symptoms, his health, and evidently his gambling skills, began to deteriorate badly.

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