Doc Holliday

John Henry Holliday, better known as Doc Holliday, was a legendary gambler and gunfighter famous for the gunfight at OK Corral, where he fought alongside his good friend, Wyatt Earp. He was a dentist but gained the reputation of being skilled with cards and quick on the trigger. He suffered from tuberculosis. He was also a heavy drinker, which had badly affected his health. He spent most of his life on the gambling trail that led to the Wild West, where he met Wyatt Earp and got deputed as a deputy marshal to fight a band of cowboys who were becoming a nuisance in Tombstone. He was arrested multiple times on various charges, ranging from unlawful possession of gambling material to murder. Mary Katherine Horony-Cummings, better known as ‘Big Nose Kate,’ was the only woman with whom Holliday was known to have had a relationship. However, there is no record of them having got married or having had any children. He spent the last days of his life at Colorado in the hope that he would be cured by the hot springs, but succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of 36. Many movies, folk songs, and novels depicting his legendary life in the Wild West have been released and are popular to date.