DOC HOLLIDAY

1851-1887

Born John Henry Holliday, he arrived with a cleft palate, so his mother spent hours refining his speech and instilling in him superb etiquette and southern manners. This charming persona belied a dark side as, much later in life, he was forced to flee Dallas on charge of murder. Moving to Tombstone, Arizona with his friend Wyatt Earp, he became involved in the infamous ‘Gunfight at the OK Corral’. Despite his violent edge, Holliday became something of a folk hero, and his death in 1887 was met with a sense of loss.