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All right, folks, welcome to
part two of the DIC Holiday series here

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on Blood and Dust. And again
this is a solo hosted episode by me

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Justin. Also, again, there
is explicit language. There is explicit content.

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Whether you're a child listening or an
adult, just be aware of that.

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I will say this these two episodes, all the DIC Holiday stuff I

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did took me months to research.
The information in here is crazy, and

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I just really hope that you enjoy
it. So with that being said,

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let's get on with this episode.
We are none of us born into Eden.

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The world's plenty evil when we get
here. Question is what's the best

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way to play a bad hand John
Henry Holiday. When the Herbs made up

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their minds to go down and confront
the mcclowdy's and their group for Doc,

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it was a no brainer. He
was going to back their play no matter

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what. This famous gunfight is a
most legendary shootout of the real West.

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In the small towns and farms outside
Tombstone, many saw the irp's as unprovoked

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killers and the dead men as innocent
victims. The biggest misconception people have about

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Doc Holiday is that he was simply
wide Earth sidekick, Doc's his own men,

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who chooses to live by chance and
violence over dying in a sick bit,

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Doc Holliday's anger fuel by a life
cut short, desperate to die on

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his own terms. For fifteen years, he lives in the shadow of certain

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Yeah. The cowboys were robbing and
murdering Mexican citizens at a time when the

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last thing they wanted to do was
stir up what one official called an international

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controversy, if not war. It
was obvious that the cowboys would strike again.

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It was obvious that there would be
more trouble. I Clapton was eager

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to exact any degree of revenge he
could. Many historians agree that Doc is

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the first to cock his weapon and
one of the first to pull the trigger.

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There's a good chance that if Doc
Holiday is not there that day,

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the gunfight at the Okay Corral might
never have happened. Right after the gunfight,

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it seemed almost like the town and
like the West as a whole,

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was celebrating. They were considered heroes
for taking action against those dirty cowboys.

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The lines of animosity that were created
by that gunfight were far far deeper and

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potentially lethal that any disagreements that had
happened before. Rumors of assassination were everywhere.

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The Earths were said to be targets. Along with Doc Holiday, Doc

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Holiday represents the darkness, the villainy, the inequity that lies inside of all

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of us, that part of us
that we know we need to repress,

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but is also useful. Now we're
on October twenty sixth, eighteen eighty one,

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the day of the shootout at the
Ok Corral. It's eleven am and

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Whyat and Virgil they basically see Ike
Clanton still drunk in the streets and probably

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trying to sober up a little bit. They take him into custody. After

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a little bit of a fight,
Virgil ends up pistol whipping Ike Clanton.

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Ike is brought into the court on
a weapon's charge. You know, he

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had been carrying a Winchester rifle and
a pistol. Whyat also has words with

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Tom mclowry and Pistol whips the shit
out of him. So there was an

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ordinance in town when Virgil came around
that you know, there were no there

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were no weapons allowed in town.
That was just the way it was,

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and these two kept breaking the rules. So at one thirty pm Ike is

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out of jail. He has his
guns, okay, and he's around town

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looking for Doc. Now Doc is
asleep when Ike comes into the Flies boarding

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house looking for him, which is
actually adjacent to the photography studio, which

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is right next to the alley where
the shootout takes place. Now Doc is

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asleep, so obviously he doesn't find
there. Kate notices that Ike clants around

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looking for him, and she warns
Doc via the landlady pretty much. She

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like relays a message to the landlady
and says, hey, tell like Doc

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isn't here, you know, or
that she wasn't sure where he was,

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so Ike, Clanton's just like all
right, whatever you know now, big

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nos. Kate was visiting Doc at
the time, okay, missus Fly told

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her that Clanton had been trying to
find Holiday. They're up in the room.

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Kate tells Doc that Ike is out
looking for him and that he's threatening

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to kill him again and all this
other stuff. According to Kate's account,

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Doc says, if God will let
me live long enough, he will see

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me. So he gets addressed,
throws on a black suit with a light

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colored linen shirt, a broad hat, long gray overcoat, and he goes

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out and he meets up with the
Earps, who have been all day long,

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all morning long, receiving reports from
various townspeople. You know that the

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Cowboy gang is out gunning for him. They're looking for him, they want

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to kill him. So John Beehan, the county sheriff, shows up,

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and he says, hey, Ike
Clanton and his crew are on Fremont Street

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talking gun talk. There are some
reports that say Wyatt telling Doc, you

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know, on his arrival, he
didn't need to get mixed up in what

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was about to happen, probably more
than likely because he wasn't officially a lawman,

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in which Doc replied, that is
a hell of a thing for you

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to say to me. And that
was pretty much assuming that it was because

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he was already involved so deep with
the Earps that it didn't matter to him

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whether he was a lawman or not. He was already living on borrowed time.

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It should be noted that when Karen
holiday Tanner did write her book,

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she really did not make any mention
of this little conversation, so you know,

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you should know that. But there
are other witnesses who did corroborate that

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two thirty pm. The earps and
Doc decide to go confront the cowboys who

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were, like I said, in
that alley about ten feet away from that

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Okay corral because the shoot out technically
didn't happen at the corral. And Virgil

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asks Sheriff Bihan to go with him
and literally looks at him, starts laughing

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and says, hell, this is
your fight, not mine. The next

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chain of events are from thirty days
worth of testimony from preliminary hearings from a

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large number of witnesses and all of
the people involved, and this is all

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stated by Justice of the Peace Wells
Spicer. Okay. So Doc and Virgil

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they exchange walking stick and shotgun.
Doc takes virgil shotgun, Virgil takes Doc's

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walking stick. Holiday Tanner, like
I had stated, the author of Doc

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Holliday A Family Affair, she seems
to think that Virgil carried Dock's walking stick

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to appear more imposing, but more
than likely he probably carried it as a

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weapon because a lot of historians feel
that Virgil and Wyatt just intended to disarm

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the cowboys by pistol whipping them,
and the way that they actually approached that

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small lot would probably have been evidence
of that, so that should be noted.

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Now, Doc carries the shotgun,
partially concealed beneath his gray overcoat,

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and the foursomes start walking towards the
lot by the Ok Corral. Now the

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cowboys which included a now unarmed Ike
Clanton, along with Billy Clanton, his

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brother, the mclowry brothers Frank and
Tom, and Billy Clayborne, they were

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nearby. Now, what they were
doing there was they were actually waiting there

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for Doc because they were planning on
ambushing him. Doc and the Earps actually

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believe this, and most historians believe
it as well, because Doc was staying

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at the adjoining boarding house, which
was right next door. Right when they

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get close by, Sheriff Bhan runs
over and he claims that he disarmed the

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cowboys. The Earps and Doc brush
them off. They're like, whatever,

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dude, just get the fuck out
of here. They didn't trust him anyway.

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They didn't think that he did disarm
them, and Virgil actually later suggested

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even if they did believe them,
they were going over to make sure that

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they were disarmed. Now, as
it turns out, you know, Sheriff

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b Hand either didn't disarm them or
he didn't completely disarm them. Billy Clanton

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and the mcclowary brothers still had weapons
on them. Now, this is one

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cool thing that I did find stated
in several eyewitness accounts. As they are

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on their way to the OK Corral. Witnesses said that the three Art brothers

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were all dressed in black with firm, mean grimaces on their faces, while

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Doc was Natalie clad in gray and
was whistling. Now, if you can

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picture that these dudes are getting or
heady to head over to a shootout,

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Doc's dressed in gray, just whistling
on his way there. I thought that

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was like personality wise, that was
just perfect for me. I just smiled

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when I read that as like his
kick ass. So when they actually get

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there, the cowboys are really surprised
because the RBS show up with Doc,

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and like I had said, they
were planning on ambushing Doc. He was

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supposed to be alone. Okay,
So Doc was there as armed backup.

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Now, he stood slightly behind the
street with the shotgun. He covered the

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flank. His job was to cover
the side so that you know, the

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cowboys couldn't come around the side or
whatever. Now, you got to remember

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this lot literally is fifteen feet wide. Okay, it's a very confined area,

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and his job was basically to make
sure that Virgil and Wyatt were not

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fired upon as they disarmed the clans
and McClory's. Now, Virgil and Wyatt

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probably did not think the cowboys would
fire on them with Doc and Morgan covering

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them in this manner, because Morgan
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the other flank. Virgil says,
throw up your hands, I intend to

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disarm you, and obviously the cowboys
did not comply. Now, the shooting

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started when Billy Clanton and Frank McClory
cocked their pistols. Now, too,

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shots are fired initially and simultaneously.
Now, apparently these shots are fired by

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Wyatt and Frank McLaury. Some accounts
do have Billy Clanton drawing first. Now

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it's not really known who fired the
first shot, but Doc's bullet was the

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first one to hit. He hit
Tom McLaury in the stomach with a double

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barreled shotgun as he was reaching for
a weapon in his saddle sheath as mccloudy

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was pulling his gun when Doc shot
him. Mccloudy pulled the trigger and a

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bullet went through Wyatrp's coattail. Billy
Clayborne. As soon as he hears the

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shots fired, he takes off running. He's gone, so Doc ends up

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getting hit in the hip. Kate
later reported that his hip was only grazed

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by mccloudy's bullet. Kate asked Doc
if he was hurt, and he replied

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no. She could see like a
small reddish welt from the bullet the tombstone

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nugget. The newspaper also reported that
Doc skin was just grazed because the bullet

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hit his pistol holster. So at
this point, Ike Clanton he panocks.

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He throws his gun down and basically
starts begging for his life, and Wyatt

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yells at him fight or get out
like Clayborne, and he watched Ike Clanton

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straight up dessert his brother Billy,
and he ran towards the door of the

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photography shop. Now, while he
gets into the photography shop, Ike draws

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up hid and gun from his back
and he fires one more round towards Wyatt

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before he pretty much disappeared out aside
into hiding. The sound actually distracted Morgan

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enough so that Frank mclowy sent a
bullet into Morgan's side, so Morgan is

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now shot. Then by this time
Doc tossed the shotgun and he had drawn

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his nickel plated pistols, and he
covers starts covering some ground to come face

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to face with Frank mclowery, who
was wounded at this point. Now,

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Frank mclowry levels his pistol, looks
right at Doc and says, quote,

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I got you now, And Doc
looks at him and says, you're a

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daisy if you have, and then
he hurries up, draws his pistol shoots

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Frank mcclowry right behind the right ear. At the same exact time, Morgan

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Herb fires a shot at Frank mcclowry, which also hits him. Now Billy

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Clanton fired at Virgil, but his
shot went astray when he was hit with

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Morgan's shot through the ribcage. Some
did claim that Doc may have shot at

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Ike as he fled, but he
more than likely didn't, according to eyewitness

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accounts and to Wyatt's account, indicate
the only his only shots were at the

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mcclowry brothers. Now Billy Clanton,
who's pretty much just wounded he's pretty much

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dying. He starts firing blindly into
the gun smoke around him, and he

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hits Virgil in the leg. Now
Wyatt responds and he walks up and just

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fills him full of bullets, just
not even a hesitation. So all in

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all, the lawmen killed three of
the cowboys during that gunfight. But the

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thing about it was is Dic Holiday, being the sikest person who probably should

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have been bedridden covering the flank,
actually covers more ground than anybody in this

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gunfight. He was constantly moving around
just covering everybody's fire, which is awesome.

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I thought that was so cool because
this guy is literally on his damn

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deathbed for the last x amount of
years, but he's the one moving around

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the most making sure nobody else gets
shot. So you would think that this

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would be the end of it,
but it's not. Ike Clanton ends up

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filing fucking murder charges, and they
did like I had said, Well,

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Spicer, Justice of the Piece had
thirty days of preliminary hearings and where he

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heard witness test Moony, he heard
from everybody involved, and he ended up

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finding that the lawman and Doc Holliday
acted within their duty Now to Ike Clanton

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and the other cowboys, well,
Spicer's findings really didn't mean shit to them.

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Now, the aftermath of the Okay
Corral, you know, Virgil and

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Wyatt both believed that Sheriff Behan had
pretty much betrayed them the minutes right before

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the Okay Corral went down, you
know, when he stated, hey,

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I have disarmed them, which he
obviously didn't do. At the end of

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the day, the mclowry brothers and
eighteen year old Billy Clanton were the three

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that were killed. According to Kate's
reports, she which it's still debatable whether

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or not she was even present,
but Doc supposedly returns to his room,

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sits on the side of the bed, puts his face in his hands,

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you know, just downcast, and
says, this is just awful. It's

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awful. And she's basically referring to
the fact that he had taken a couple

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lives that day, or at least
one life that day. Now, like

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I said, this is highly debatable. Kate does say some things throughout history

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relating to Doc that could be taken
as kind of true, kind of not

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true. So you got to kind
of take that with a grain of salt.

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Now what happens next is Ike Clampton, he was the one who ran

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away from the fight. He goes
and files in a complaint against Wyat,

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Eeran Doc. Holliday, Doc and
Wyat are both arrested and the hearings were

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held in Justice of the Piece,
Well Spicer's court, from November second till

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November twenty ninth. Now, when
Spicer had hurt all the testimony, he

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issued an opinion, and he said, in the view of all the facts

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and circumstances in the case, considering
the threats made, the character and position

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of the parties, and the tragical
results accomplished in manner and form as they

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were, with all surrounding influences,
is bearing upon the result of the affair,

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I cannot resist the conclusion that the
defendants were fully justified in committing these

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homicides, and that it was a
necessary act done in the discharge of official

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duty. So the Justice of the
Piece is pretty much saying, hey,

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look, these guys were justified.
This was they were I mean, they

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did several witnesses, they had everybody
come up give their testimonies, and after

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all that it was says, you
know what this is justifiable homicide. They

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were, they were in duty of
what they were doing. So this really

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really pissed the cowboys off. So
on December twenty eighth, eighteen eighty one,

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at about midnight, Virgil Earp is
on his way from the Oriental Saloon

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to the Crystal Palace. Now I
had heard a separate report that he was

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at the Schiffelin Hotel back to the
Cosmopolitan. Now the herbs had moved to

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either one or the other for mutual
support and protection because they did know that

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the cowboys and Ike Clanton were out
for revenge for killing the mcclowry's and Ike

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Clanton's little brother Billy. The weird
thing about that is the Ok Corral,

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the citizens were split pretty fifty fifty. It was really weird because all the

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people within Tombstone pretty much heralded him
yet them as heroes, you know,

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they had saved the day because there's
all this violence always going on. But

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the other half of them in the
little ranches outside of Tombstone, they did

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not see it that way. They
saw the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday as

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the villains because you know, they
were friendly with the cowboys and shit like

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that, and on top of it, mcclowry brothers that were killed. The

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mclowry's were pretty much seen as everybody. Yeah, they were in cahoots with

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the cowboys, but they were also
seen as being in the wrong place at

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the wrong time. So a lot
of people took sympathy towards the mcclowry's and

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and even young Billy Clanton who was
eighteen years old, you know, when

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he got killed. So you got
to understand, like, even though the

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movie's portray it this way, or
sometimes history might portray it that way,

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it was very fifty fifty on whether
or not the citizens in and around Tombstone

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actually liked the Earps and dic holiday
for what they did. So there was

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a shitload of tension going on right
now. Okay, So on December twenty

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eighth, eighteen eighty, wanted about
midnight, Virgil RB like I had said,

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it was on his way from one
saloon to another, and like I

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had said, they had moved there
for mutual support and protection. Virgil was

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ambushed by three men with shotguns.
Two out of the five shots fired that

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struck Virgil, one of them shattered
his left arm and the other one entered

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his left side and back by about
he was hit by about twenty pellets worth

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a buckshot. Now this shattered the
humorous and his left arm. Virgil herb

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kind of when he got hit by
the bolts, he kind of spun completely

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around, but he never left his
feet. He stayed on his feet the

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entire time. And doctor George Goodfellow, he was the one who worked on

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Virgil Ert. He had ended up
removing about five and a half inches worth

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of bone, which is about one
hundred and forty millimeters. Now, these

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wounds did cripple Virgil for the rest
of his life. They were very serious

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wounds, but he was able to
walk back to whichever one he was at.

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Let's say it's the Oriental, whereas
brother Wyatt was playing poker. Now,

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the first thing Whyatt did was he
telegraphed US Marshall Crawley Dake. He

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requested appointment as a Deputy US Marshal
for Eastern Pima County and he wanted the

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authority to form a posse. Now, I'm not going to get into two

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money details about the ambush of Virgil
Earp, the shooting of Morgan Earp,

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and a lot of the details pertaining
to the Vendetta ride, because that is

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going to pertain more to the Herbs
than it is to Doc Holliday. I

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will mention the things that Doc Holliday
was involved in, but when it comes

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to the Earth episode down the line, I don't want to be redundant and

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repeat a lot of that information,
especially when it doesn't pertain to Doc Holliday.

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This is Doc's episode, so us
Marshall Dake replied right away with yes,

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so why earp. First thing he
did was he deputized his brother Warren,

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a guy named Sherman McMaster, guy
named Jack Turkey Creek Johnson, another

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guy named Harelip, Charlie Smith,
another guy named Daniel Tipton, guy named

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John Texas, Jack Vermillion, and
of course Doc Holliday is suspected as well

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to be one of those deputized members. Now, what he was looking for

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was he was looking to protect his
family and pursue the suspects. And what

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he was doing was he was paying
these guys five dollars per day, which

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would be in today's money about one
hundred bucks a day. The men responsible

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for the attack on Virgil were more
than likely Ike Clanton, Johnny Ringo,

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Frank still well, Hank Swelling,
Pete Spencer, and Johnny Barnes. Some

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of the men were arrested and brought
into court. But what happened was a

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number of eyewitnesses who were friendly with
the cowboys or even cowboys themselves, swore

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that the guys that were being charged
with the crime we're in Charleston at the

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time that Virgil was shot. So
the judge really had no reason, you

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know, he had no reason to
hold him. He couldn't hold them.

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He had no choice but to release
them because of the eyewitness accounts of them

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being elsewhere. So in January of
eighteen eighty two, there's this huge rash

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of crime. There's all kinds of
horse thefts, there's a bunch of stagecoach

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robberies that are happening. And what's
going on is the Earps and Doc Holliday

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are losing a lot of popularity in
Tombstone, and it's mostly due to the

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feud between the cowboys and the Earps, And it was also the series of

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crimes and shootings that were pretty much
pissing everybody off because the Earps had promised

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that they were going to stop all
this. Now another reason that the townspeople

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were getting pissed at Dic Holliday in
the Earps is because Virgil Earp shooting.

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It happened right in the heart of
the business district of Tombstone, and there

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was a bunch of patrons at a
local place right by where Virgil was,

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called the Golden Eagle Brewery, and
some of those shots barely missed some of

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the patrons inside there. So they're
starting to fear for their own lives because

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the Earths are targets and basically starting
a bunch of shit, and of course

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Dic Holiday being the instigator of a
ton of this shit, they also were

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not liking him very well either.
So in January of eighteen eighty two,

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Deputy Sheriff Breckinridge was out on patrol
near the Birdcage One Knives Birdcage Theater.

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He feels a pistol against his chest
and it's Frank Stillwell. One of the

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cowboys. Stillwell claimed that he was
waiting for someone, and Bragg that he

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was going to kill him that night. Now Breckinridge cautioned Stillwell to go home.

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He was already out home bail and
awaiting trial. So just a little

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bit later Breckinridge finds Doc Holliday.
Nothing actually happens, obviously, but because

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Doc Holliday is still here, we
don't know the details of that altercation.

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Ike Clanton later goes and he refiles
murder charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday

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for the slang of his brother and
the mcclowery boys. Now, Ike was

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unable to produce any kind of sufficient
evidence, so the judge had no choice

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but to pretty much dismiss all the
charges. Now, on January seventeenth,

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eighteen eighty two, there is a
street standoff between Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo.

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Now, if you've seen the movie
Tombstone, which I'm pretty sure everybody

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has, there's a lot of writers, and in the movie, you know

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Ringo confronts Doc and the Earp brothers. That is not true Virgil and Morgan

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where are still recovering from their wounds
from the Okay Corral and from Virgil getting

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ambushed that night about a month beforehand
or three weeks beforehand. So the thing

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about it too is Ringo knew he
really wasn't at that much risk because he

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knew they wouldn't accept the challenge.
Because there's still all this shit going on,

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but he was drinking a lot of
whiskey that day. He knew that

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they were having troubles enough with the
aftermath of the gunfight at the Okay Corral,

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Ringo knew all this. So pretty
much how it goes down is Ringo

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steps out into the street to quote
unquote have it out with Doc Holliday in

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a man to man fight. Now, the Holiday, being the kick ass

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dude that he is, was more
than happy to oblige, and he comes

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out. He says he'll give Ringo
any kind of fight that he wanted.

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Doc specifically says he looks at Ringo
and he says, all I want of

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you is ten paces out in the
street. So one of the townspeople.

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Actually, this was seen by plenty
of witnesses, including the Earps. One

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of the towns people described it in
a journal and he said he described it

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as bad time expected with the cowboy
leader in Dike Holliday. I passed both

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not knowing blood was up, one
with hand in breast pocket and the other

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possibly ready. He was referring to
Dike Holliday, who was just standing there,

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just waiting for it to go down, says Earp's just beyond crowded streets

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and looked like another battle police vigilant
for once. And both were disarmed.

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So if you can imagine Dic Holliday, He's got one hand in his breast

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pocket, he's got the other one
on his revolver, ready to shoot,

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and he straight up tells Johnny Ringo, you know all, I wanted to

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use ten paces in the street.
He was ready to go right there.

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Now what happens is James Flynn,
who is the acting town Marshal at the

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time, goes and grabs Ringo and
held him while Wyatt pretty much hustled and

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got he got Doc Holliday out of
there, and that was pretty much the

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extent of the confrontratation. No shots
were fired, like I said, Wyatt,

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and there was a lot of other
people witnessed to it. Now,

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according to Karen Holiday Tanner's biography,
it was recorded in the journal of a

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Tombstone resident, which is what I
just read to you. Doc and Ringo

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were both arrested for carrying weapons on
the street, and Ringo was actually retained

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on account of existing charges of robbery. Both were fined thirty dollars for carrying

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concealed weapons and doc was eventually released. Now, on January twenty third,

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eighteen eighty two, warrants are issued
for Ike and Finclanton in the connection with

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a Virgil Earp shooting. Another guy
named Pony Deal had warrant issued for a

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stagecoach robbery. On January thirty first, eighteen eighty two, citizen of Tombstone

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demanded town meeting for the appointment of
deputies who were not aligned with either faction

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of the parties who are now distracting
the community. So basically, they wanted

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some kind of law enforcement that was
not cowboy related and that was not involved

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with the Earps. The townspeople are
telling Wiad Earp to resign, They don't

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want him anywhere around in town.
But wid Earp does resign, and of

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course his resignation is quote unquote conveniently
ignored. Now. On February seventeenth,

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eighteen eighty two, Earp and Company
Doc included leave Tombstone armed with a warrant

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for the arrest of Pony Deal for
the suspected stagecoach robbery. While the robbery

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was unsuccessful. At this time,
Earp and Doc they heard rumors that the

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clant In faction was planning revenge.
So they're, like I said, there's

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still a lot of tension going on. And by March eighteen eighty two,

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there are multiple death threats against Wide
Earp, Doc Holliday, Morgan Earp,

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and a guy named Dan Tipton who
was riding with them as well. So

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I mean Doc Holliday and the Earps, they're all getting death threats all the

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time, literally on a daily basis, from all these cowboys. So on

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March eighteenth, what happens. March
eighteenth, eighteen eighty two, Morgan Earp

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is shot while playing pool with Bob
Hatch at Campbell and Hatch's Saloon and billiard

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parlor. It's located right on Alan
Street and Tombstone. He is struck in

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the back and he ends up dying
right there on the pool table, while

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Wyatt is right there beside him.
Now I have heard two separate accounts of

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the following events. It is known
that Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday were also

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very very good friends, and some
actually suggest that they were better friends than

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Wyatt himself. They actually got along
quite a bit. So the next cham

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of events, the one side is
that Doc pretty much flips out and he

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goes around kicking indoors to all these
places, and he's looking for the killers,

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and he's telling everybody on the street
he's going to kill anybody that's responsible,

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and at that same time, Wyatt
swears revenge as well. Wyatt and

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Doc then began the Vendetta ride against
the cowboys, which is what we're about

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to get into. But I also
heard the other side of that story was

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that Wyatt Earp himself actually took a
cowboy as a human shield with a gun

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to his head and went around kicking
indoors doing the same thing, looking for

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the killers and swearing revenge on whoever
killed his brother right then. But what

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ends up happening is Whyatt unless the
help of Warren Arp, Sherman McMasters,

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Turkey Creek, Johnson, Texas,
Jack Vermillion, and Doc Holiday And on

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March twentieth, eighteen eighty two,
Wyatt and his posse escort the Earth Wives

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and Virgil along with Morgan's body.
And Morgan's body is actually dressed in one

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of Doc's tailored suits that he had
given for the burial. And what they're

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doing is they're going to the railroad
station because they're taking they're letting Virgil and

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the earth Wives, and they're taking
Morgan's body out to California, which is

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where the Earp family had lived like
their parents and stuff like that. So

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what happens is cowboys Ike Clanton and
Frank Stillwell are at the train station.

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Wyatt most likely killed Stillwell, who
was found with multiple gunshot wounds. Now

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Wyatt has a shotgun and how it
supposedly goes down is the first barrel of

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the shotgun rips through Stillwell's stomach,
spends him around, and the second shot

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almost takes his leg clean off.
And from all reports that I could read,

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after he was down on the ground, Doc Holliday walks up and puts

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two more bullets in them us to
make sure he's dead. What happens is

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a twoson Arizona Coroner's Jury named Wyatt, Warrenerp, Doc Holliday, Texas Jack,

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and McMasters as the men who killed
Stillwell. Sheriff b Hand while he

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was there, he attempts to arrest
Wyatt, Earp and the men, and

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they pretty much refused to comply and
just rode off out of town. Doc

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and Wyatt both refused to be arrested
by behnd for Stillwell's death, and a

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Tuson judge did issue warrants for their
arrests. Now, as far as Wyatt

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was concerned, the manning shot Virgil
and killed Morgan were dead men. They

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did not care. And for Doc
Holliday it was the same thing because those

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were his friends. As we all
know, Dic Holliday did not have many

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friends whatsoever. The only reason that
they were going to be living is if

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they hadn't been found by Dic Holliday
and the Art brothers. And that was

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the way it was going to be. The killing of Stillwell's was just the

399
00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:01.920
beginning, all right. Doc Holliday, like I said, he rode beside

400
00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:07.759
him the whole way, which is
just a staple of his loyalty that he

401
00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:13.440
had for the few friends that he
did have. On March twenty second,

402
00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:17.880
eighteen eighty one, Wyatt received word
that Pete Spencer was at his wood camp

403
00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:23.880
in the Dragoons. The quote unquote
federal posse rode there and found They didn't

404
00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:28.640
find Pete Spencer there, but they
found a guy by the name of what

405
00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:32.839
they referred to as Indian Charlie.
His real name was Florentino Cruz. He

406
00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:37.359
was scared shitless when he saw these
dudes right up and got you know,

407
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:40.160
they pretty much got him. Now, he named all the men who murdered

408
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:46.160
Morgan Earp, which was himself included. After he confessed to everything and gave

409
00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:52.039
all the names. Wyatter, Doc
Holliday and the others just put a lot

410
00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:55.720
of bull holes in that dude and
shot him up pretty good. From what

411
00:33:55.759 --> 00:34:02.240
I understand, the jury did determine
that Cruise had been killed by WIDERP WARRENERP

412
00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:07.720
Sherman, McMaster, Jack Johnson,
Dic Holiday, Texas, Jack Dan Tipton,

413
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:15.800
and or another guy named Charlie Smith. Now, on March twenty fourth,

414
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:20.239
eighteen eighty two, Wyatt goes and
he kills Curly Bill Barocius with a

415
00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:23.760
shotgun during a shootout with a whole
bunch of cowboys were there. And it's

416
00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:28.760
a place called Burley Springs. Now, the thing about it is is the

417
00:34:28.840 --> 00:34:32.400
exact location of the meeting place is
unknown. There's a lot of conflicting reports.

418
00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:37.000
One of them is Burly Springs,
another one is Iron Springs, another

419
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:44.559
one is Cottonwood Springs. But it
is thought that the exact location is Iron

420
00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:49.599
Springs. Located in the wet Stone
Mountains. Cowboy named Johnny Barnes and others

421
00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:53.519
were also gone down. According to
Doc in a later newspaper interview, his

422
00:34:53.639 --> 00:35:00.360
and Wyatt's escape from the shootout is
nothing short of miraculous. He indicates that

423
00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:04.239
that basically God was on their side
that day. Now, according to all

424
00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:09.840
accounts, and this is not just
Whyatt's posse, this is also from cowboy

425
00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:15.519
accounts, Wyatt stood his ground during
a battle, literally stood there firing while

426
00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:21.320
he's getting shot at, while everyone
else took cover. During this heavy shootout,

427
00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:25.639
Doc was the only one that rode
forward Texas Jack. He was on

428
00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:30.639
his horse, and his horse got
shot from underneath him. So Doc rode

429
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:36.119
up and under huge, huge amounts
of fire, grabbed Texas Jack, put

430
00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:39.320
him on his horse, and got
him out of there. Which I mean,

431
00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:44.239
as we've come to know from Doc
Holiday, the dude legit had a

432
00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:46.039
set of balls. He did not
care. He knew he was on borrow

433
00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:50.880
time, didn't care if he lived
or died, so this would be totally

434
00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:54.679
in his character. Now, on
March twenty fifth, eighteen eighty two,

435
00:35:54.760 --> 00:36:00.719
Sheriff B Hand forms a posse of
twenty five men and they're comprised of all

436
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:06.079
known criminals, and this would include
cowboys, Johnny Ringo and a bunch of

437
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:10.239
other ones. And what they do
is he deputizes them and he sets them

438
00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:15.159
out to find Doc Holiday and Wyat
Earp and all their little posse. And

439
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:21.360
during April May of eighteen eighty two, Doc and Wyatt's posse they get provisions,

440
00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:23.280
they get a little bit of money, they get some ammo, they

441
00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:28.320
get some weapons, fresh horses,
and they get that guy named Henry Hooker's

442
00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:34.400
ranch. While they're there, Doc
goes and he sends off this taunting letter

443
00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:39.639
to the local newspaper and Tombstone,
and he's pretty much mocking the entire Sheriff

444
00:36:39.719 --> 00:36:45.519
be Hand posse. The letter is
written out of torn sheets from an account

445
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:50.239
book and it's dated in Camp April
fourth, eighteen eighty two, and it's

446
00:36:50.239 --> 00:36:55.599
signed quote yours respectfully one of them
end quote. And it's so funny because

447
00:36:55.679 --> 00:37:00.760
it presents a response to the article
in the Nugget which was on March thirty

448
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:08.360
first, which was uncomplimentary of the
Earth Posse. It's basically the Tombstone Nugget.

449
00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:13.880
They were very very in favor of
Behand. They were on the cowboys

450
00:37:13.880 --> 00:37:16.760
side, so any chance they got, they would totally be rate the herbs

451
00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:22.039
and Doc holiday. So that's why
Doc went ahead and did that. And

452
00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:25.079
it's really funny because in the response, Doc terms the cowboys and be Hand

453
00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:30.719
as quote, honest ranchers, and
he does it with a lot of irony.

454
00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:34.719
And he also suggests that there might
have been trouble near camp if the

455
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:40.400
bee Hand posses quote trailing abilities had
been equal to those of the average Arizona

456
00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:45.800
ranchmen. And it's so funny because
he keeps referring to them as gentlemen,

457
00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:51.119
and literally, I'm not even quoting
this for him, Like in the letter,

458
00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:57.679
Doc purposely quotes these words and does
that just to mock them because he's,

459
00:37:57.719 --> 00:38:00.440
as we all know, he's extremely
Wetty's very smart. Now, there

460
00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:06.559
is no definitive proof that Doc was
the one who wrote these letters, but

461
00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:10.960
based on other letters that Doc had
written, all historians agree that there's literally

462
00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:16.199
no doubt that Doc was actually the
one who wrote these letters because of him

463
00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:22.000
being sarcastic and ironic and the way
he was speaking. He was very,

464
00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:25.639
very refined. So you know why
I didn't Warren Earp and Doc Holliday did

465
00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:30.440
remain in Arizona Territory until April.
They were pretty reluctant to leave. They

466
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:36.960
had been writing over the countryside.
They were just hoping to encounter Ringo Johnny,

467
00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:39.639
Ringo, Clanton, Spencer, and
Swelling. They didn't know where the

468
00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:44.039
guys were, and in all actuality, all the dudes were hiding out in

469
00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:49.360
Mexico at this point in time,
so they were writing for about three weeks.

470
00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:53.440
The whole Vendettoride in total was about
three weeks, with the Okay Corral

471
00:38:53.719 --> 00:38:59.760
and the events beforehand, starting with
the killing of Old Man Clanton. Within

472
00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:05.679
a about a year's time, the
number of cowboy outlaws that had been killed

473
00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:10.039
were Old Man Clanton, Billy Clanton, Frank mcloughery, Tom Mclowery, Frank

474
00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:15.000
Stillwell, Indian Charlie, Dixie Gray, Florentino Cruise, which is the same

475
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.760
guy as Indian Charlie. I don't
know why I put both of them in

476
00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:22.559
there, but Curly Bill Brocius,
which his death is still a little bit

477
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:28.199
questionable because supposedly after the gunfight he
was never heard from again. Wyatt Earp

478
00:39:28.360 --> 00:39:32.960
and somebody else actually came forward in
later years that would include one of the

479
00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:37.480
cowboys also said that Whyat Earp was
the one who killed Curly Bill and just

480
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:42.719
gave him a burial out of the
middle of nowhere, But technically he was

481
00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:45.840
just never heard from again, so
the cowboys, to save a little bit

482
00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:51.119
of face, said that he took
off to Mexico into hiding. Also killed

483
00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:54.840
were Johnny Barnes, Jim Crane,
Henry head Bill, Leonard Joe Hill,

484
00:39:55.400 --> 00:40:00.079
Luther King, Charlie snow Billie Laning, Swing Hunt, Billy Grounds, and

485
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:07.000
Hank Swilling. Pete Spencer volunteered to
go to the penitentiary for his own safety.

486
00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:09.800
He literally volunteered to go to fucking
prison. He ended up serving about

487
00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:14.239
a year and a half of a
five year sentence and then was let out.

488
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:20.880
According to all accounts that I read, Dic Holiday was supposedly responsible for

489
00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:25.199
most of these cowboy killings. The
rest were split up between Wyat Earp and

490
00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:30.000
some of the other guys in the
posse. When him and Earp left Tombstone

491
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:34.599
for good, pretty much what they
did was they rode their horses to Silver

492
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:37.400
City, New Mexico, they sold
them, They rode a stage to Demming

493
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:43.400
and on April fifteenth, they boarded
a train for Colorado, and like I

494
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:46.079
said, you know, April fifteenth, wiat Earp and a lot of his

495
00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:51.159
guys. When they get to Colorado, they stay in Trinidad with a bat

496
00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:57.559
Masterson, and from there they pretty
much split up and had their separate ways.

497
00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:00.639
On April twenty ninth, eighteen eighty
two, Doc Holliday and Dan Tipton

498
00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:06.760
they had to Pueblo, Colorado,
and then a little bit further in the

499
00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:10.119
future they had to Denver. Now. In May eighteen eighty two, while

500
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:15.599
in Pueblo, Colorado, a guy
named Perry Mallen approached Doc Holliday for the

501
00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:21.400
first time during the second week of
May and the Theater Co meet in Pueblo,

502
00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:23.800
Colorado. This guy, he's a
small, little bearded guy, and

503
00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:30.119
he informed Doc Holliday that the brother
of Frank Stillwell was looking for Doc and

504
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:36.360
wanted to kill him. Doc Holliday
had no reason to doubt this info because

505
00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:39.960
he had lots of people that were
out looking to kill him. So Doc

506
00:41:40.039 --> 00:41:45.320
Holliday being Doc Holliday, he asks
the guy to point out Stillwell's brother.

507
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:51.760
This guy Mallin refused to do so, so about another week later, also

508
00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:54.559
in eighteen eighty two, Obviously,
Holiday and two other gamblers had taken a

509
00:41:54.599 --> 00:42:00.760
train to Denver to attend some horse
races. Now, on May fifteenth,

510
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:05.920
he was walking near the corner of
sixteenth and Lawrence Streets in Denver, and

511
00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:09.039
Holiday was forced to surrender when this
guy, Perry Mallon appeared out of the

512
00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:15.280
darkness and leveled two revolvers at him. Now what ended up happening was Mallon

513
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:20.400
claimed to be a lawman from California. He had the help of a local

514
00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:25.320
deputy sheriff named Charles Linton. They
escorted Holiday to the sheriff's office. Now

515
00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:30.400
Mallon convinced Linton that Doc was wanted
an Arizona territory for murder and that the

516
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:35.440
reward was offered for his arrest.
Now, while he was at the sheriff's

517
00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:39.119
office, Mallon kept the two six
shooters aimed at Holiday the entire time because

518
00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:45.000
he was literally scared to death of
Doc Holliday. Holiday was sentting here protesting.

519
00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:46.360
You know, He's like, dude, no, this isn't right.

520
00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:50.840
I mean, in all honesty,
there really was some warrants out for his

521
00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:54.840
arrest for murder. But They end
up calling for a transport and they transport

522
00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:59.719
him to the county jail. Mallon
also goes on and claims that Doc was

523
00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:04.719
in Utah Territory as well for the
murder of a guy named Harry White,

524
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:09.360
which was said to be this guy's
partner in law. Well, what ends

525
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:15.920
up happening is that this Perry Mallon
was pretty much a con man. He's

526
00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:20.679
basically telling all these stories about how
he's been pursuing Doc Holliday for seven years

527
00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:24.000
and Doc Holliday was the reason he
had his middle finger shot off. They

528
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:28.920
end up finding out that Perry Mallen
is totally full of shit. They let

529
00:43:29.039 --> 00:43:32.800
Doc go. What also happens and
not too much longer after that, is

530
00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:37.519
Doc, while still in Denver,
is taken into custody by a bounty hunter

531
00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:43.599
who was hired by the b Handon
Cowboy faction. He is arrested for the

532
00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:49.280
killing of Frank Stillwell in Arizona,
and charges are dropped because bat Masterson basically

533
00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:57.199
creates a bunch of trumped up charges
against Doc Holliday which would allow him to

534
00:43:57.239 --> 00:44:01.679
not be extradited to Arizona like Governor
of Colorado. Because of these trumped up

535
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:08.519
charges, ends up refusing to honor
Arizona's request to extradite Doc Holliday for the

536
00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:13.719
murder of Frank Stillwell, now I
know, as we've come to find out,

537
00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:17.719
Bat Masterson not a huge fan of
Doc Holliday, not a huge fan

538
00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:22.719
at all. But what it was
was they had worked together previously. They

539
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:24.800
didn't like each other, but they
had a mutual respect for each other.

540
00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:30.599
And above that, Bat Masterson and
White Earp were very good friends. And

541
00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:37.400
why Earp owed Doc Holliday his life. So that's how all that went down.

542
00:44:38.039 --> 00:44:44.000
While he's in jail, a lot
of the newspapers are kind of going

543
00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:49.920
back and forth on how to portray
Doc while he's in jail. You know,

544
00:44:50.039 --> 00:44:53.000
some are calling him a murderer.
Others are calling him a justified lawman

545
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:59.639
who was deputized. But all of
them describe him as well dressed, usually

546
00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:04.679
rest neatly in black and with a
colored linen shirt, tall, slender,

547
00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:09.119
delicate, handsome, soft spoken,
sophisticated. He has described as one man

548
00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:15.679
as being a man of considerable culture, and another one describes him as having

549
00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:19.679
a soft voice in a modest manner. And then you have another one that

550
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.239
says, you know, he has
these piercing blue eyes. You have yet

551
00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:27.519
another one that says, you know, he has this well defined look of

552
00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:30.719
determination, you know, and they
describe his hands of being somewhat small and

553
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:35.320
slender. And it's so funny because
the report, all these reporters are just

554
00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:39.639
like, this is Dic Holiday.
They literally describe him as an elegant man

555
00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:45.039
with a polite and refined personality.
And it's so funny because when they actually

556
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:49.760
see him for the first time,
compared to what his reputation was, they're

557
00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:53.159
just like, there's no way this
is Dic Holiday. So it's it's really

558
00:45:53.199 --> 00:45:58.599
interesting to read different accounts on Dic
Holiday throughout the years, especially in this

559
00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:05.199
time period when his reputation was so
fucking vast. And speaking of his reputation,

560
00:46:05.239 --> 00:46:08.960
I mean, even the people in
Georgia did not know about the shooting

561
00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:15.719
at the Okay Corral. Now,
even though Doc was technically justified, he

562
00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:17.960
was with the posse and he was
with the earps when they did this.

563
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.679
They made it a point. Now
we don't know if it was actually Doc

564
00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:27.480
Holliday himself or his dad that did
it, but they purposely left the shooting

565
00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:32.840
at the okay, corral out of
the newspapers so that Doc Holliday's family name

566
00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:37.320
would not look bad. Now.
Like I said, I've read plenty of

567
00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:42.159
things that say it was Doc Holliday
that letter to her sent a telegraph ahead

568
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:44.599
and was like, listen, this
is what happened. To keep this out

569
00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:47.800
of the papers because I don't want
my family to look bad. I've also

570
00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:52.840
read other accounts to where it was
his dad who purposely did it after he

571
00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:59.079
had found out ahead of time from
Doc Holliday. So we're not exactly sure

572
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:05.039
about about how that goes. But
while he's in jail in Denver, Doc

573
00:47:05.199 --> 00:47:09.760
is defending himself. He's doing a
lot of interviews and he pretty much talks

574
00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:15.159
about the conspiracy you know, by
Sheriff b Han and the cowboys and all

575
00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:22.000
this other shit. And after all
this legal maneuverings that bat Masterson is doing,

576
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:25.199
he helps Doc get released on bail. And it's really weird because this

577
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:34.760
is the one time that bat Masterson
actually makes statements to defend Doc Holliday's character,

578
00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:37.440
and he says, quote, I
tell you all of this talk is

579
00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:40.840
wrong about Holiday. I know him
well. He is a dentist and a

580
00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:46.719
good one. So it's kind of
defending his character, but it's kind of

581
00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:51.840
saying, Okay, he's kind of
a piece of shit guy, but he's

582
00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:54.840
a hell of a good dentist.
But he's also kind of saying, you

583
00:47:54.880 --> 00:48:00.320
know, you guys are saying this
dude's a stone cold killer, but he's

584
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:02.360
not. Like it's all rumors and
all this other shit. So, I

585
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:07.119
mean, it was kind of defending
him kind of not you know what I'm

586
00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:12.320
saying. So that was pretty interesting. Now, in June eighteen eighty two,

587
00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:15.599
Doc meets up with Wyatt, Earp
and Gunnison. While he's there,

588
00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:21.519
he has interviewed briefly by a reporter, and at first Doc tells him quote,

589
00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:25.079
I'm not traveling about the country in
search of notoriety, and I think

590
00:48:25.360 --> 00:48:30.880
you newspaper fellows have already had a
fair hack at me. End quote.

591
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:36.480
He does answer a few questions about
the background and the recent troubles in Denver,

592
00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:37.840
you know, with his arrest and
a lot. I mean, that

593
00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:43.519
was a really huge deal at the
time. He does kind of mention he's

594
00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:47.239
smiling while he mentions the bounty hunter
that was hired by b hand It had

595
00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:53.159
left town four days before he was
released from jail, and he indicates his

596
00:48:53.239 --> 00:49:00.000
intention to mind his own business and
let others do the same Again this journey

597
00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:04.679
list, a separate one describes him
as having piercing dark blue eyes and being

598
00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:08.400
dressed all in black, which you
know, which was pretty signature of Doc

599
00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:15.519
Holiday for the most part. In
July of eighteen eighty two, Doc reunites

600
00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:22.760
with Wyat just outside Salida, Colorado. Wyatt and docs many newspaper interviews at

601
00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:27.519
this time may have been part of
an attempt to establish their whereabouts legitimately,

602
00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:32.880
but they have disappeared from public view
abruptly that July. Now check this out.

603
00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:37.960
Now I've heard all three days.
It's either July thirteenth, fourteenth,

604
00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:43.239
or eighteenth. Like I said,
I had read all three dates. Eighteen

605
00:49:43.320 --> 00:49:46.800
eighty two, a guy named John
Yost, who is bound for a place

606
00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:52.559
called Morse's Sawmill, discovers a dead
man in West Turkey Creek Canyon, east

607
00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:58.360
of Dragoon Mountains. The body was
sitting in the intertwined limbs of an oak

608
00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:01.920
tree, and there was a bullet
that had entered the right temple and exited

609
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:07.480
through the top of the head,
and the gun supposedly used was a cult

610
00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:12.519
revolver. The dead man was one
of the famous cowboys, Johnny Ringo.

611
00:50:12.800 --> 00:50:19.599
Yost quickly notified the sheriff of the
grizzly find, which technically suicide was suggested

612
00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:23.039
by some members of the coroner's jury, but most people disagreed. They did

613
00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:29.320
not agree on who had shot him, only that somebody had shot him.

614
00:50:29.719 --> 00:50:34.239
What they say happened is that Wide
Rupe and Doc Holliday returned to Arizona and

615
00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:40.000
had a rendezvous with a few friends
named Fred Dodge, Oregon Smith, Johnny

616
00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:45.760
Greene, John Meager, and one
other, probably by the name of Lou

617
00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:50.320
Cooley. They were near Henry Hooker's
ranch. Now a short time later they

618
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:55.280
all had taken the trail towards Galliville. Johnny Ringo had been spotted while camped

619
00:50:55.480 --> 00:51:00.480
on Turkey Creek, and when he
ran up a canyon, Wyatt had shot

620
00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:04.920
him. The body had been placed
between the oak trees. Bat Masterson,

621
00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:09.239
Wore Earp and some newspaper friends helped
establish alibis for Wyatt. Earp and Doc

622
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:15.039
Holliday. They really don't know if
Johnny Ringo committed suicide. The official ruling

623
00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:19.760
was a suicide, but a lot
of people say that Wyatt Earp killed him.

624
00:51:19.880 --> 00:51:22.280
A lot of people say that Doc
Holliday killed him. Nobody really knows,

625
00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:30.079
but it's pretty much all agreed by
historians that the suicide was not the

626
00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:34.079
cause of death. For one,
his hat was still on his head when

627
00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:37.800
he was found up against this tree. His gun belt was on upside down,

628
00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:43.039
one of the guns was sitting on
the other side of his body.

629
00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:47.519
So it is pretty much agreed upon
that he was killed, but nobody really

630
00:51:47.559 --> 00:51:52.239
knows by who, And because of
all these alibis, it's hard telling.

631
00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:59.719
But some historians believe Ringo committed suicide
and that Doc was in Pueblo, Colorado

632
00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:04.119
at the time of his death.
Now, Karen Holiday Tanner, she does

633
00:52:04.199 --> 00:52:07.400
point out in her book that Doc
was not in Pueblo at the time.

634
00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:13.599
The reason that they say he was
in Pueblo, Colorado at this time is

635
00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:20.119
because he was supposed to be in
court on July eleventh. They say that

636
00:52:20.199 --> 00:52:24.559
he did show up in court himself, but in all actuality, an attorney

637
00:52:24.599 --> 00:52:30.280
appeared on his behalf that day.
The wording of the court was that they

638
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:36.960
said in propara persona, which means
in his own proper person. Now,

639
00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:42.039
that was standard legal filler text at
the time, and that didn't actually mean

640
00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:45.880
that the person was there at all. Now, you also got to consider

641
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:50.880
the fact that the Pueblo charge which
he was Doc was charged for larceny at

642
00:52:50.920 --> 00:52:53.400
that point in time, and that
was a fake charge. That was one

643
00:52:53.440 --> 00:52:59.199
of the charges that was trumped up
by Bab Masterson to provide an obstacle for

644
00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:04.440
his extra addition back to Arizona.
So even though the authorities were unaware of

645
00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:07.639
this, they had no real urgency
for him actually to be there to face

646
00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:12.760
like a bogus charge. You know, there's no question that the case was

647
00:53:12.920 --> 00:53:16.960
continued more than once, and all
of the times it was continued is because

648
00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:22.800
Doc was not present at the court
at that time. It is stated that

649
00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:28.800
Doc for sure did arrive in Celida
on July seventh, because the newspaper reported

650
00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:34.760
his arrival in town. Karen Holiday
Tanner does believe that he met there with

651
00:53:34.840 --> 00:53:38.519
Wyatt and others just west of town
that day. This account is based on

652
00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:45.840
statements supposedly made by Josie Marcus Earp, which was Wyatt's wife at the time.

653
00:53:45.239 --> 00:53:51.800
Doc's next document appearance was in Leadville
on July eighteenth, which was the

654
00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:58.000
very date that his bogus poeblo court
case was again continued. So if Doc

655
00:53:58.199 --> 00:54:02.400
did kill Ringo, why it may
have claimed to killing himself to protect Doc's

656
00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:08.320
reputation since Doc had no legal authority
to actually kill Johnny Ringo, and why

657
00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:14.000
it did at this point, So
there's a lot of speculation that whyatt did

658
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:19.880
claim to kill Johnny Ringo just to
protect Doc Holiday from being incarcerated and protect

659
00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:24.400
his reputation. Like I said,
nobody really knows the circumstances of Johnny Ringo's

660
00:54:24.440 --> 00:54:30.199
death, Okay, but whyatt earp
did accept responsibility for the death of Johnny

661
00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:35.480
Ringo and Karen Holliday. Tanner also
goes on to point out that he did

662
00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:37.320
have the means, he had the
motive, he had the opportunity, and

663
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:43.559
a confession that would convict in most
courts, which why E did later on

664
00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:46.840
confess to it. So you know, there's that little bit of information for

665
00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:51.960
you. A little bit later,
on eighteen eighty two, the Tombstone trouble

666
00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:57.519
is pretty much over with by now, and Doc and Leadville, Colorado Nobleshit

667
00:54:57.639 --> 00:55:00.880
dying of TV and he's down to
literally about one hundred and twenty two pounds.

668
00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:05.800
At this point in time, he
helps fight a fire in Leadville,

669
00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:08.639
Colorado, and he has They all
the people who were involved in it said

670
00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:13.719
he pretty much showed no regard for
his own personal safety while he was fighting

671
00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:16.719
this fire. So I thought that
was a really cool fact to throw in

672
00:55:16.760 --> 00:55:21.519
there about him being in Leadville,
Colorado, because around this time period,

673
00:55:21.559 --> 00:55:25.440
he's really traveling between Leadville, Pueblo
and Denver. He's going back and forth

674
00:55:25.519 --> 00:55:30.920
quite a bit. Now in eighteen
eighty three, eighty four, you know,

675
00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:34.920
he's back in Colorado. Like I
said, he's he has several bouts

676
00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:39.519
with pneumonia at this point in time, which and it affects his tuberculosis and

677
00:55:39.639 --> 00:55:45.559
it leaves him like really really emaciated, and he's very very weak. Like

678
00:55:45.599 --> 00:55:47.920
I said, he had dropped from
about one hundred and sixty pounds down to

679
00:55:49.000 --> 00:55:52.199
about one hundred and twenty pounds.
And right now at this point in his

680
00:55:52.280 --> 00:55:55.960
life, he's very very dependent on
laudanum, which is like a liquid pain

681
00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:00.320
killer. It's like an opiate.
He's drinking a lot of whisk A lot

682
00:56:00.320 --> 00:56:04.719
of reports say he's drinking up to
two quarts of whiskey a day. Big

683
00:56:04.800 --> 00:56:07.880
Nose Kake goes on to say,
no, he would only sip a little

684
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:13.000
bit of whiskey throughout the day to
ease the pain. Several eyewitnesses who knew

685
00:56:13.079 --> 00:56:16.280
Doc Holliday straight up said, man, this guy was literally pounding whiskey as

686
00:56:16.280 --> 00:56:22.360
fast as he could, drinking law
in him because he was literally in so

687
00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:28.320
much pain from tuberculosis. But what
happens is Holliday ends up going back to

688
00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:32.320
Leadville, and he's pretty much living
quietly there for a long time and until

689
00:56:32.360 --> 00:56:37.039
he runs into some old enemies.
He runs into Johnny Tyler and Billy Allen.

690
00:56:37.960 --> 00:56:43.960
What happens is Billy Allen is armed
and he's making threats. He's saying

691
00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:47.679
he's gonna kill Doc Holliday. He's
telling everybody in town all this. So

692
00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:53.239
Doc Holliday is on all points.
He's paranoid as shit. Let alone,

693
00:56:53.320 --> 00:56:58.280
he's like totally fucked up, out
of his mind and trying to ease the

694
00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:02.239
pain of his tuberculosis the best he
can. So in August nineteenth, eighteen

695
00:57:02.280 --> 00:57:07.320
eighty four, Holliday goes into Hyman's
Saloon and he placed himself at the end

696
00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:13.559
of the bar because he had seen
Billy Allen walking down the sidewalk. So

697
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:16.920
as soon as Billy Allen crossed the
threshold, Holliday leveled as a revolver and

698
00:57:17.079 --> 00:57:21.320
fired and he hit Alan in the
right arm. Now Alan fell to the

699
00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:25.039
floor and he's screaming. So Doc
Holliday rushes and he goes back behind the

700
00:57:25.079 --> 00:57:29.880
cigar case and he leaned over and
he fires again, and the second bullet

701
00:57:29.920 --> 00:57:34.599
barely misses Alan's head just by a
little bit, just by a little bit.

702
00:57:34.920 --> 00:57:37.719
And Doc leveled his revolver again,
getting ready to take another shot,

703
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:43.920
and a couple guys in the bar
pretty much disarmed him, tackled him to

704
00:57:43.920 --> 00:57:49.679
the ground or whatever. Now what
it was. Doc had borrowed five bucks

705
00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:53.000
I think it was from Billy Allen
and he had not paid it back,

706
00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:55.239
and Billy Allen straight up told him. He's like, if you don't give

707
00:57:55.280 --> 00:57:59.719
me my five dollars back, I'm
gonna kill you. And that's pretty much

708
00:57:59.719 --> 00:58:04.719
where all that came from. Doc
explains his actions to the paper the next

709
00:58:04.800 --> 00:58:07.320
day and he does get arrested.
He does, and he's able to establish

710
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:12.880
in the court that his life was
threatened. He was later exonerated of the

711
00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:16.679
shooting, and it was a ruled
self defense, and his basic defense was

712
00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:20.880
he literally went in there and he's
like, listen, this guy has been

713
00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:23.880
threatening to kill me all over town. He outweighs me by fifty pounds.

714
00:58:24.400 --> 00:58:28.440
He basically says something to the effect
of, you know, I would be

715
00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:30.280
a baby in his arms if he
got a hold of me, like I

716
00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:35.760
had no other choice, and it
actually works. He ends up getting off

717
00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:38.639
on self defense. Now, there
were a lot of people who were surprised

718
00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:43.480
that Doc was found not guilty by
the jury. No one could recall that

719
00:58:43.559 --> 00:58:49.400
Doc was extremely ill at this point
and Doc had not ever cared about his

720
00:58:49.480 --> 00:58:52.400
life, and because he was so
ill, they could have gone either way.

721
00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:55.599
You know. They really people who
were there, they said that they

722
00:58:55.639 --> 00:59:00.079
don't remember Doc Holiday actually being that
ill, you know. So it was

723
00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:06.400
it was a very fifty fifty outcome
when Doc was found not guilty by the

724
00:59:06.480 --> 00:59:08.840
jury. So, you know,
at this point, like I said,

725
00:59:08.920 --> 00:59:15.639
Doc keeps traveling back and forth between
Leadville and Denver. He's in Denver because

726
00:59:15.639 --> 00:59:19.679
of his reputation and his legal problems
there in the past. The law enforcement

727
00:59:19.920 --> 00:59:23.920
truly fucking hates him. They do
not like this dude whatsoever. Now,

728
00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:29.519
in eighteen eighty six, according to
some sources, he sees why It Earp

729
00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:34.360
for the last time at the Windsor
Hotel in Denver, Colorado. Now Josie

730
00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:39.119
Earp goes on to report that the
emaciated Doc he had a continuous coffin,

731
00:59:39.239 --> 00:59:45.559
is so weak that he can't even
stand steadily at this point. And Holiday

732
00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:52.159
Tanner's biography about Doc Holiday, she
really doesn't say anything about that. What

733
00:59:52.440 --> 00:59:58.239
is known as that why it was
traveling with Josephine Sarah Marcus asked his wife,

734
00:59:58.320 --> 01:00:00.639
which as we know that was Josie, and they were in and out

735
01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:05.519
of Colorado in eighteen eighty four,
in eighteen eighty five, and he was

736
01:00:05.599 --> 01:00:08.719
operating a saloon at that time in
Aspen. But while he was in town

737
01:00:08.800 --> 01:00:13.119
in those years, he never really
made any kind of effort to get ahold

738
01:00:13.159 --> 01:00:16.239
of Doc Holliday, even though he
knew that he was in Denver. Now,

739
01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:22.039
when they did meet at the Denver
Hotel in eighteen eighty six, Josephine,

740
01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:28.559
it's really the only account of their
last goodbye. She says that the

741
01:00:28.639 --> 01:00:32.400
Earps were sitting at the lobby when
they saw quote a thinner, more delicate

742
01:00:32.440 --> 01:00:38.159
appearing Doc Holliday than I had seen
in Tombstone end quote, and he was

743
01:00:38.239 --> 01:00:44.280
walking towards Wyatt and Josie. Now, Wyatt immediately got up to greet him,

744
01:00:44.280 --> 01:00:47.440
and they sat down nearby and talked
for a while, and Doc Holliday

745
01:00:47.480 --> 01:00:51.480
says, you know, when I
heard you were in Denver, I wanted

746
01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:54.440
to see you once more, for
I can't last much longer. You can

747
01:00:54.519 --> 01:01:00.119
see that now, Josie says,
quote, my husband was affected by this

748
01:01:00.320 --> 01:01:05.440
parting from a man who, like
an ailing child, had clung to him

749
01:01:05.519 --> 01:01:10.360
as though to derive strength from him, which is a very very weird way

750
01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:15.559
to twist. Doc Holiday like he
was dependent on Wyatt Earp like a child

751
01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:20.119
to a father, which I really
didn't appreciate that, and I'm not sure

752
01:01:20.719 --> 01:01:23.840
she was very weird. And later
interviews with Wyatt Earp, and when we

753
01:01:23.880 --> 01:01:29.239
do the wide Earp episode, you'll
know exactly what I'm talking about. She

754
01:01:29.320 --> 01:01:32.239
says, quote, there were tears
in Wyatt's eyes. When at last they

755
01:01:32.320 --> 01:01:37.679
took leave of each other, Doc
threw his arm across his shoulder and said,

756
01:01:37.159 --> 01:01:40.960
goodbye, old friend. It will
be a long time before we meet

757
01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:49.079
again, and they parted and they'd
never saw each other again. Now,

758
01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:53.800
in August of eighteen eighty six,
after Denver authorities arrested Holiday for vagrancy,

759
01:01:54.440 --> 01:01:59.679
he returned to Leadville, where he
still had friends, only a couple.

760
01:02:00.119 --> 01:02:04.320
And in May of eighteen eighty seven, he did go to Glenwood Springs,

761
01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:07.639
Colorado, and he what he was
doing was he went to Glenwood Springs,

762
01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:14.440
Colorado because there were some sulfur vapors
there. His health is getting very,

763
01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:17.719
very bad at this point in time, and it was stated by a lot

764
01:02:17.760 --> 01:02:23.320
of people who had suffered from tuberculosis
that they could go to the Hot Springs

765
01:02:23.320 --> 01:02:30.360
and Glenwood Springs inhale the sulfur vapors
and that would help easier tuberculosis and all

766
01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:35.039
actuality. It worked the exact opposite
way. It actually, it actually sped

767
01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:39.480
up his health problems and it made
him a lot sicker. And what he

768
01:02:39.559 --> 01:02:45.079
did, there was no sanitarium there
for anybody suffering from tuberculosis. So he

769
01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:50.920
ends up going to the hotel Glenwood. And this was a hotel that catered

770
01:02:50.960 --> 01:02:55.760
to those that were hoping to be
healed by the Yampa Hot Springs. Nothing

771
01:02:55.800 --> 01:03:00.719
could be done for Doc at this
point in time, as tuberculosis was far

772
01:03:00.800 --> 01:03:06.000
advanced for a very short while.
He actually still tries dealing faroh. But

773
01:03:06.199 --> 01:03:09.719
by September he is just two week
and he becomes bedridden. While he's in

774
01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:15.679
bed, I mean he's getting sores. The tuberculosis is basically eating his body

775
01:03:15.719 --> 01:03:20.400
from the inside out. The dude
is in so much pain. This terminal

776
01:03:20.440 --> 01:03:25.440
stage of tuberculosis is described by a
nineteenth century physician, and he says the

777
01:03:25.599 --> 01:03:31.679
emaciation is frightful and the most mournful
change is witnessed. The cheeks are hollow,

778
01:03:31.800 --> 01:03:37.840
rendering the expression harsh and painful.
The eyes are commonly sunken in their

779
01:03:37.880 --> 01:03:43.440
sockets and often look morbidly bright and
staring. At this point, throat ulcers

780
01:03:43.519 --> 01:03:47.159
made eating difficult, and speech was
limited to a hoarse whisper. Once the

781
01:03:47.239 --> 01:03:54.039
distinctive graveyard cough began, diagnosis was
certain and death inevitable. Rarely, he

782
01:03:54.079 --> 01:04:00.400
wrote, life wasted to the most
feeble spark, and it goes out almost

783
01:04:00.719 --> 01:04:05.760
insensibly. More typically, they would
have severe stomach cramps, excessive sweating,

784
01:04:05.800 --> 01:04:12.440
a choking sensation, vomiting blood.
I mean, just the most painful excruciate,

785
01:04:12.559 --> 01:04:15.840
one of the most painful, excruciating
desks you could ever imagine at this

786
01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:20.000
point, and Doc Holidays going through
this. Now, he spent the last

787
01:04:20.360 --> 01:04:26.920
fifty seven days of his life in
bed in a half comatose state, and

788
01:04:27.039 --> 01:04:31.880
he was delirious for fourteen of them. The delirium was more than likely induced

789
01:04:31.920 --> 01:04:38.800
and intensified by the combination of the
extreme illness that he was suffering from and

790
01:04:39.119 --> 01:04:44.679
his addiction to laudanum, which obviously
Doc can't take himself, so Kate is

791
01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:49.239
providing him laudanum in order to ease
his pain. And Doc does run out

792
01:04:49.239 --> 01:04:53.480
of money, but Kate takes money
out of her savings. She takes all

793
01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:58.280
the money that she has to help
support him in his final days. Now,

794
01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:01.920
I did read one report, actually
I read a couple different places.

795
01:05:02.440 --> 01:05:06.119
Whether it's confirmed or not, I
tried my hardest to find out, but

796
01:05:06.519 --> 01:05:11.559
it is saying in these last fifty
seven days, in his delirious and comatose

797
01:05:11.679 --> 01:05:16.199
state, that most of the people
who would bring dinner up to Doc Holliday

798
01:05:16.239 --> 01:05:21.400
were greeted with two pistols pointing at
them, and Doc ready to shoot them

799
01:05:21.440 --> 01:05:26.559
because he had no clue what was
going on. But he was still so

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used to living that life that he
figured somebody was walking in the door to

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kill him. Every time somebody would
do anything, just bringing up food to

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him. So on the morning of
November eighth, eighteen eighty seven, John

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01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:46.559
Henry Holiday, known as Doc,
awakens and he's clear eyed, he's clear

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01:05:46.599 --> 01:05:51.199
headed, and he asked for a
glass of whiskey, and it was given

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01:05:51.239 --> 01:05:57.599
to him, and he drank it
down with enjoyment, very slowly, and

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then he looks down at his feet
and he says, quote, this is

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funny. And then he dies at
the age of thirty six. Now,

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Doc Holliday claimed that he almost lost
his life a total of nine times.

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Four attempts were made to hang him, and he was shot at in a

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01:06:15.079 --> 01:06:21.639
gunfight or from ambush five times.
His few remaining belongings were sent back to

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01:06:21.760 --> 01:06:27.840
Georgia, along with a straight razor, a small knife, some gambling items,

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01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:32.840
and the Holiday family did receive Doc's
trademark diamond stockpen, but when they

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01:06:32.880 --> 01:06:35.920
did get it, the diamond was
gone. I know a lot of you

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01:06:35.960 --> 01:06:40.639
were wondering why he looked down at
his feet his final days, and literally

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01:06:40.639 --> 01:06:45.519
his last words were this is funny
because of the life that Doc Holliday lived.

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01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:49.519
He thought that he was going to
die with his boots on. He

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01:06:50.079 --> 01:06:55.559
purposely made it his goal to die
in a gunfight. He wanted to go

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01:06:55.639 --> 01:06:59.639
out, he wanted to go out
quick, and it just never happened.

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01:06:59.679 --> 01:07:02.679
So when he looked down, took
his final breath and looked at his feet,

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01:07:02.719 --> 01:07:06.480
he never thought for a second that
he would die die in a bed.

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So Holiday ends up going to be
buried in Lynnwood Cemetery, which is

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on the top of a smaller mountain
overlooking Glenwood Springs. Now, Holiday did

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01:07:17.039 --> 01:07:20.559
die in November, and the grounds
may have been frozen, and a lot

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01:07:20.599 --> 01:07:26.840
of authors do speculate that it would
have been impossible to transport him to the

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cemetery, which was only accessible by
one road up the side of the mountain,

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all right, and a lot of
reports that I read because they wouldn't

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01:07:35.039 --> 01:07:39.280
have been able to get him up
the side of that mountain because of the

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weather being so bad. They actually
buried him at the base of the mountain,

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01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:46.320
and they were going to transport him
in the spring when all the snow

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01:07:46.360 --> 01:07:49.639
had melted in the ground was softer
and he was able to be buried,

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and what happened when springtime came around
is that they just pretty much left him

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01:07:55.239 --> 01:08:00.039
there. So if you know anybody
that lives around the base of Limb in

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01:08:00.039 --> 01:08:05.840
the Wood Cemetery that overlooks Glenwood Springs, if there's houses or residential some kind

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01:08:05.880 --> 01:08:12.119
of anything around there, there's a
good chance that Doc Holliday is buried somewhere

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01:08:12.519 --> 01:08:15.679
near there. Nobody really knows.
Now, granted, there are a lot

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01:08:15.719 --> 01:08:20.119
of authors nowadays that say that,
well, you know, it probably didn't

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01:08:20.119 --> 01:08:25.960
happen, because there's other accounts of
other people being buried that exact same time

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01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:30.159
of year, and they got up
the mountain just find as you guys know,

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01:08:30.239 --> 01:08:32.439
I always go by what I read
more of, and there are more

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01:08:32.479 --> 01:08:39.279
accounts from people who were there that
say he was buried at the base of

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01:08:39.279 --> 01:08:43.359
the mountain and he was actually left
there. Nobody came back to bury him

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01:08:43.840 --> 01:08:48.279
the following springs. So but I
want to end on a quote from Virgil

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Earp. Virgil Earp and Doc Holliday
weren't that good of friends. Okay,

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01:08:53.560 --> 01:08:58.920
you know they were acquaintances, But
Virgil was also known as a very fair

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01:08:59.000 --> 01:09:02.520
man, very fair man and a
very honest man, and he knew Doc

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01:09:02.720 --> 01:09:06.680
about as good as anybody else,
did any of the Art Brothers. In

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01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:12.720
May of eighteen eighty two, when
he's doing an interview with the Arizona Daily

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01:09:12.880 --> 01:09:17.520
Star, Virgil Ert had this to
say about Doc Holiday. There was something

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01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:24.880
very peculiar about Doc. He was
gentlemanly, a good dentist, a friendly

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01:09:24.920 --> 01:09:29.600
man, and yet outside of us
boys, I don't think he had a

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01:09:29.640 --> 01:09:33.359
friend in the territory. Tales were
told that he had murdered men in different

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01:09:33.399 --> 01:09:39.159
parts of the country, that he
had robbed and committed all manner of crimes,

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01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:44.119
and yet when persons were asked how
they knew it, they could only

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01:09:44.119 --> 01:09:47.880
admit that it was hearsay and that
nothing of the kind could really be traced

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01:09:47.880 --> 01:09:54.359
to Doc's account. He was a
slender, sickly fellow. But whenever a

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01:09:54.479 --> 01:09:59.920
stage was robbed or a row started, and help was needed, Doc was

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01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:41.279
one of the first to saddle up
his horse and report for duty. A

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minute a minute, a minute,
a minute, and