August 14, 1851 - Griffin, Georgia - John Henry Holliday is born
January(?) 1(?), 1870 - Philadelphia - John Henry departs to Philadelphia
March 1, 1872 - Philadelphia - John Henry earns a degree in dentistry from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery
April(?) 1(?), 1872 - St.Louis, Missouri - John Henry moves to St.Louis, Missouri, to work as an assistant for a classmate, A.Jameson Fuches Jr. =(START)
July 30(?), 1872 - Atlanta - John Henry relocates to Atlanta to live with his uncle and to join a dental practice. The local dentist, Arthur C. Ford, advertised in the Atlanta papers that Holliday would substitute for him while he was attending dental meetings
January(?) 1(?), 1873 - Withlacoochee River, Georgia - Doc Holliday is involved in a shooting with african-americans on the Withlacoochee River, Georgia. No one is injured.
September 1(?), 1873 - Dallas, Texas - "Doc" Holliday is diagnosed with tuberculosis. He is given only a few months to live. Dr.Ford returns and Holliday departs to Dallas, Texas, hoping that a drier and warmer climate could slow the deterioration of his health. There, he partners with Dr. John A. Seegar, a friend of his father's
March 2, 1874 - Dallas - Dr.John A. Seegar and Holliday dissolve the partnership
May 12, 1874 - Dallas - Holliday and twelve others are indicted for illegal gambling
January 1, 1875 - Dallas - Doc Holliday is arrested after trading gunfire with a saloon keeper named Charles W. Austin. No one is injured
January 18, 1875 - Dallas - Doc Holliday is indicted for assault to murder because of the incident with the saloon keeper
January 25, 1875 - Dallas - Doc Holliday is found not guilty and released
June(?) 1(?), 1875 - Denison, Texas - Moves his office to Denison, Texas
August(?) 1(?), 1875 - Denver - Holliday settles in Denver under the alias "Tom Mackey" and fins work as a faro dealer for John A. Babb's Theatre Comique. Later, he get in an argument with Bud Ryan, a well-known and tough gambler - drawing knives, they fight and Holliday leaves Ryan seriously wounded
February 5, 1876 - Cheyenne, Wyoming - Holliday arrives in Cheyenne and finds work as a dealer for Babb's partner, Thomas Miller, who owned the "Bella Union Saloon"
October(?) 1(?), 1876 - Deadwood, South Dakota - Thomas Miller moves the Bella Union Saloon to Deadwood, and Holliday goes with him
January(?) 1(?), 1877 - Cheyenne - Returns to Cheyenne
March(?) 1(?), 1877 - Denver - Returns to Denver
May(?) 1(?), 1877 - Kansas - Holliday visits his aunt in Kansas
July 4, 1877 - Breckenridge, Texas - Disagreement with gambler Henry Kahn. Holliday beats him repeatedly with his walking stick. Both men are arrested and fined, but later that same day, Kahn shoots and seriously wounds the unarmed Holliday
July 7, 1877 - (While in Fort Worth, Texas) - The "Dallas Weekly Herald" incorrectly reports that Holliday had been killed
October(?) 1(?), 1877 - Fort Griffin, Texas - Once healed, Holliday relocates to Fort Griffin. He meets Mary Katharine "Big Nose Kate" Horony while dealing cards
September 19, 1878 - Dodge City, Kansas - Doc and Kate escape to Dodge City after he kills a man named Ed Bailey with a knife during an illegal game
March 8, 1879 - Las Vegas, New Mexico - Doc Holliday arrives in Las Vegas, New Mexico
July 19, 1879 - Las Vegas, New Mexico - Holliday and his business partner, former deputy marshal John Joshua Webb, are seated in their saloon in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Former U.S. Army scout Mike Gordon gets into a loud argument with one of the saloon girls that he wants to take with him. Gordon storms from the saloon and begins firing his revolver into the building. Before Gordon could get off his second shot, Holliday kills him. Holliday is tried for the murder but acquitted.
March 12, 1880 - Las Vegas, New Mexico - Doc Holliday and a man named Charlie White fire against each other. White is wounded.
September 27, 1880 - Tombstone, Arizona - Doc Holliday arrives in Tombstone, Arizona, to join his friend Wyatt Earp
October 11, 1880 - Tombstone - Showdown with Johnny Tyler in Tombstone's Oriental Saloon. Both are disarmed by friends, but later, Holliday shoots Milt Joyce in the hand and William Parker in the foot
March 15, 1881 - near Benson, Arizona - Three cowboys attempt to rob a Kinnear & Company stagecoach carrying $26,000 in silver bullion near Benson, Arizona, during which driver Eli "Budd" Philpot and passenger Peter Roerig are killed. Cochise County Cowboy Bill Leonard, is one of three men implicated in the robbery. When Kate and Holliday have a fight, County Sheriff Johnny Behan and Milt Joyce, a county supervisor and owner of the Oriental Saloon, decide to exploit the situation.
Behan and Joyce ply Kate with alcohol and suggest to her a way to get even with Holliday. She signs an affidavit implicating Holliday in the murders and attempted robbery. Judge Wells Spicer issues an arrest warrant for Holliday. The Earps find witnesses who could attest to Holliday's whereabouts elsewhere at the time of the murders. Kate says that Behan and Joyce had influenced her to sign a document she didn't understand. With the Cowboy plot revealed, Judge Spicer frees Holliday.
April 19, 1881 - Tombstone, Arizona - To reduce crime in Tombstone, the city council passes ordinance 9, requiring anyone carrying a bowie knife, dirk, pistol or rifle to deposit their weapons at a livery or saloon soon after entering town
August 12, 1881 - Skeleton Canyon - Doc Holliday kills a man named Newman Hayes with a rifle. A robber named Jim Crane is also killed
October 26, 1881 - Tombstone, Arizona - Doc Holliday is deputized by Tombstone City marshal Virgil Earp - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp and Morgan Earp kill Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury and Frank McLaury in a 30-second gunfight
October 30, 1881 - Tombstone - Ike Clanton, Billy Clanton's brother, files charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday
October 31, 1881 - Tombstone - After Ike Clanton files murder charges, Justice Spicer convenes the preliminary hearing in the Mining Exchange Building to determine if there was enough evidence to go to trial. In an unusual proceeding, Spicer takes written and oral testimony from a number of witnesses over more than a month
November 4, 1881 - Tombstone - Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday are arrested during the fifth day of the hearing
January 17, 1882 - Tombstone - Johnny Ringo and Doc Holliday trade threats, resulting in their arrest by Tombstone's chief of police, James Flynn
January 23, 1882 - Charleston, Arizona - Wyatt Earp rides with his deputized posse, consisting of his brothers Morgan and Warren, Doc Holliday, "Texas Jack" Vermillion and four others, to Charleston, where Ike Clanton, his brother Phin, and Pony Diehl were known to stay. Ringo, still in jail, learns that the Earps have warrants and are headed for Charleston. He arranges for bail and Sheriff Behan releases him before the bail payment arrives. James Earp immediately files an affidavit saying Ringo was "an escaped prisoner" and charges that Ringo intended to interfere with Wyatt's execution of the warrants. Ringo immediately rides to Charleston to warn his Cowboy friends.
On the way to Charleston, Earp's posse is joined by 30 more riders from Tombstone. They find Ben Maynard, a known Cowboy associate, outside Charleston and arrest him. With Maynard in front, the posse take over the small town and go door-to-door looking for the Clantons and Diehl. Ringo is rearrested in Charleston, but not before he warns the Clantons and Diehl, who leave town.
January 25, 1882 - Tombstone - Wyatt Earp obtains warrants from Judge Stilwell for the arrest of Ike and Phin Clanton, and another Cowboy named Pony Diehl, for the attempted murder of Virgil Earp. Wyatt and Morgan Earp, along with Doc Holliday, assemble a posse which turn Charleston inside out looking for the Cowboys without success
February 17, 1882 - Tombstone - The Earp posse leaves Tombstone heavily armed and with a warrant for the arrest of "Pony" Diehl, who was a suspect in a January 1882 stage robbery. Unsuccessful, they return to town a few days later, hearing rumors that the Cowboys were plotting further revenge
March 10, 1882 - Mescal Springs, Arizona - Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and others encounter Curly Bill Brocius and several other outlaws near Mescal Springs, Arizona. A gunfight erupts with Earp killing Brocius and mortally wounding Johnny Barnes before the other outlaws flee. Dave Rudabaugh is reported to be among the outlaws. Afterwards, he apparently flees south into Mexico
March 18, 1882 - Schieffelin Hall, Tombstone, Arizona - Doc Holliday and Morgan Earp attend "Stolen Kisses", a musical by William Horace Lingard and Company. Afterwards, Doc goes to his room and Morgan heads for Hatch's Saloon and Billiard Parlor, where he is shot and killed
March 20, 1882 - Tucson, Arizona - Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp, James Earp, Warren Earp, Doc Holliday, "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson, and Sherman McMaster guard Virgil and Allie on the way to Tucson. James was to accompany Virgil, Allie, and Morgan's body to the family home in Colton, California. Morgan's wife and parents wait to bury him. Wyatt receives information that Frank Stilwell, Ike Clanton, Hank Swilling, and another cowboy were waiting for them in Tucson. Upon their arrival in Tucson, the Earp party spots Stilwell and other Cowboys. James, Virgil, and Allie board the train to Tucson armed with pistols, rifles and shotguns.
As the train pulls away from the Tucson station, six or seven shots are heard. When Wyatt and his men approach, Frank Stilwell and Ike Clanton run. Stilwell stumbles, allowing Wyatt to catch him.
March 22, 1882 - Off the Chiricahua Road, South Pass, Dragoon Mountains - A part of the Earp posse including Wyatt, Warren, Doc Holliday, Sherman McMaster and "Turkey Creek" Johnson ride about 10 miles (16 km) east to Pete Spence's ranch and woodcutting camp off the Chiricahua Road, below the South Pass of the Dragoon Mountains.
The Earp posse arrives and asks about the location of Pete Spence and Florentino "Indian Charlie" Cruz. They are told that Spence is in jail in Tombstone and that Cruz is cutting wood nearby. They follow the direction given to them and soon ten or twelve shots are heard. The next morning, Cruz's body is found full of bullet holes.
March 24, 1882 - "Iron Springs", Cochise County, Whetstone Mountains, SE Arizona - The Earp posse, including Wyatt, Warren, Doc Holliday, Sherman McMasters, and Texas Jack, rides west towards a prearranged meeting place at a springs, where they expected to meet Smith, who was to bring $1000 from Tombstone, about 20 miles (32 km) to the east.
With Wyatt and Doc Holliday in the lead, the six lawmen surmount a small rise overlooking the springs and are surprised to find nine Cowboys already there: Curly Bill, Pony Diehl, Johnny Barnes, Frank Patterson, Milt Hicks, Bill Hicks, Bill Johnson, Ed Lyle, and Johnny Lyle. They were camped about the springs, cooking a meal, less than 30 feet (9.1 m) down an slight embankment.
Recognizing Earp, Curly Bill fires his shotgun without warning at Wyatt but misses. Earp dismounts, shotgun in hand. The other Cowboys fire their guns. "Texas Jack" Vermillion’s horse is shot and falls on him, pinning his leg. Lacking cover, Doc, Johnson, and McMaster retreat.
Wyatt returns Curly Bill's gunfire with his own shotgun and shoots Curly Bill in the chest, almost cutting him in half. "Texas Jack" Vermillion tries to retrieve his rifle wedged in the scabbard under his fallen horse. The Cowboys fire a number of shots at the Earp party but the only casualty is Vermillion's horse, which is killed. Doc Holliday helps Vermillion gain cover. After killing Brocius, Earp fires his pistol and shoots Johnny Barnes in the chest and Milt Hicks in the arm.
March 25, 1882 - (While in "Iron Springs") - The Tucson Grand Jury indicts Pete Spence, Frank Stilwell, Florentino Cruz, Frederick Bode, and "John Doe" (Fries) for Morgan Earp's murder
March 28, 1882 - Albuquerque - A local newspaper reports that Earp's posse passed through Albuquerque on 28th
April 2, 1882 - 32km N of Sierra Bonita Ranch - Wyatt Earp's posse is spotted 32km North of Hooker's ranch
April 15, 1882 - Silver City, New Mexico - Earp's posse arrives in Silver City
April 28(?), 1882 - Albuquerque - Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday have a serious disagreement (over Earp's jewish woman) and part ways
May 16, 1882 - Gunnison, Colorado - Doc Holliday is arrested on the Arizona warrant for killing Frank Stillwell. Wyatt Earp intervenes on Holliday's behalf to release him
July 13, 1882 - near Morse Canyon, Arizona - Johnny Ringo, the last leader of "the cowboys" is hunted down and killed
July 21, 1884 - Leadville, Colorado - In Mannie Hyman's Saloon, Holliday has a showdown with Johnny Tyler (from Tombstone) again. Holliday’s worsening health, coupled with the threat of being extradited back to Arizona Territory for prosecution if he broke Colorado law, gave Tyler the winning hand
August 19, 1884 - Leadville - Doc Holliday nearly kills Billy Allen in another dispute
March 27, 1885 - Leadville - Doc Holliday is arrested
April 4, 1885 - Denver - Doc Holliday is found innocent of charges and released. He moves to Denver to avoid further troubles with Johnny Tyler
April(?) 1(?), 1886 - Denver - Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp meet in Denver's Windsor Hotel
May 5, 1887 - Aspen, Colorado - Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp arrive in Aspen, Colorado
May 20(?), 1887 - Glenwood Springs, Colorado - Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp arrive in Glenwood Springs, via Aspen
November 8, 1887 - Glenwood Springs - John Henry "Doc" Holliday dies, aged 36 =(END)
August(?) 1(?), 1875 - Denver - Holliday settles in Denver under the alias "Tom Mackey" and fins work as a faro dealer for John A. Babb's Theatre Comique. Later, he get in an argument with Bud Ryan, a well-known and tough gambler - drawing knives, they fight and Holliday leaves Ryan seriously wounded
February 5, 1876 - Cheyenne, Wyoming - Holliday arrives in Cheyenne and finds work as a dealer for Babb's partner, Thomas Miller, who owned the "Bella Union Saloon"
October(?) 1(?), 1876 - Deadwood, South Dakota - Thomas Miller moves the Bella Union Saloon to Deadwood, and Holliday goes with him
January(?) 1(?), 1877 - Cheyenne - Returns to Cheyenne
March(?) 1(?), 1877 - Denver - Returns to Denver
May(?) 1(?), 1877 - Kansas - Holliday visits his aunt in Kansas
July 4, 1877 - Breckenridge, Texas - Disagreement with gambler Henry Kahn. Holliday beats him repeatedly with his walking stick. Both men are arrested and fined, but later that same day, Kahn shoots and seriously wounds the unarmed Holliday
July 7, 1877 - (While in Fort Worth, Texas) - The "Dallas Weekly Herald" incorrectly reports that Holliday had been killed
October(?) 1(?), 1877 - Fort Griffin, Texas - Once healed, Holliday relocates to Fort Griffin. He meets Mary Katharine "Big Nose Kate" Horony while dealing cards
September 19, 1878 - Dodge City, Kansas - Doc and Kate escape to Dodge City after he kills a man named Ed Bailey with a knife during an illegal game
March 8, 1879 - Las Vegas, New Mexico - Doc Holliday arrives in Las Vegas, New Mexico
July 19, 1879 - Las Vegas, New Mexico - Holliday and his business partner, former deputy marshal John Joshua Webb, are seated in their saloon in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Former U.S. Army scout Mike Gordon gets into a loud argument with one of the saloon girls that he wants to take with him. Gordon storms from the saloon and begins firing his revolver into the building. Before Gordon could get off his second shot, Holliday kills him. Holliday is tried for the murder but acquitted.
March 12, 1880 - Las Vegas, New Mexico - Doc Holliday and a man named Charlie White fire against each other. White is wounded.
September 27, 1880 - Tombstone, Arizona - Doc Holliday arrives in Tombstone, Arizona, to join his friend Wyatt Earp
October 11, 1880 - Tombstone - Showdown with Johnny Tyler in Tombstone's Oriental Saloon. Both are disarmed by friends, but later, Holliday shoots Milt Joyce in the hand and William Parker in the foot
March 15, 1881 - near Benson, Arizona - Three cowboys attempt to rob a Kinnear & Company stagecoach carrying $26,000 in silver bullion near Benson, Arizona, during which driver Eli "Budd" Philpot and passenger Peter Roerig are killed. Cochise County Cowboy Bill Leonard, is one of three men implicated in the robbery. When Kate and Holliday have a fight, County Sheriff Johnny Behan and Milt Joyce, a county supervisor and owner of the Oriental Saloon, decide to exploit the situation.
Behan and Joyce ply Kate with alcohol and suggest to her a way to get even with Holliday. She signs an affidavit implicating Holliday in the murders and attempted robbery. Judge Wells Spicer issues an arrest warrant for Holliday. The Earps find witnesses who could attest to Holliday's whereabouts elsewhere at the time of the murders. Kate says that Behan and Joyce had influenced her to sign a document she didn't understand. With the Cowboy plot revealed, Judge Spicer frees Holliday.
April 19, 1881 - Tombstone, Arizona - To reduce crime in Tombstone, the city council passes ordinance 9, requiring anyone carrying a bowie knife, dirk, pistol or rifle to deposit their weapons at a livery or saloon soon after entering town
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August 12, 1881 - Skeleton Canyon - Doc Holliday kills a man named Newman Hayes with a rifle. A robber named Jim Crane is also killed
October 26, 1881 - Tombstone, Arizona - Doc Holliday is deputized by Tombstone City marshal Virgil Earp - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp and Morgan Earp kill Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury and Frank McLaury in a 30-second gunfight
October 30, 1881 - Tombstone - Ike Clanton, Billy Clanton's brother, files charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday
October 31, 1881 - Tombstone - After Ike Clanton files murder charges, Justice Spicer convenes the preliminary hearing in the Mining Exchange Building to determine if there was enough evidence to go to trial. In an unusual proceeding, Spicer takes written and oral testimony from a number of witnesses over more than a month
November 4, 1881 - Tombstone - Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday are arrested during the fifth day of the hearing
January 17, 1882 - Tombstone - Johnny Ringo and Doc Holliday trade threats, resulting in their arrest by Tombstone's chief of police, James Flynn
January 23, 1882 - Charleston, Arizona - Wyatt Earp rides with his deputized posse, consisting of his brothers Morgan and Warren, Doc Holliday, "Texas Jack" Vermillion and four others, to Charleston, where Ike Clanton, his brother Phin, and Pony Diehl were known to stay. Ringo, still in jail, learns that the Earps have warrants and are headed for Charleston. He arranges for bail and Sheriff Behan releases him before the bail payment arrives. James Earp immediately files an affidavit saying Ringo was "an escaped prisoner" and charges that Ringo intended to interfere with Wyatt's execution of the warrants. Ringo immediately rides to Charleston to warn his Cowboy friends.
On the way to Charleston, Earp's posse is joined by 30 more riders from Tombstone. They find Ben Maynard, a known Cowboy associate, outside Charleston and arrest him. With Maynard in front, the posse take over the small town and go door-to-door looking for the Clantons and Diehl. Ringo is rearrested in Charleston, but not before he warns the Clantons and Diehl, who leave town.
January 25, 1882 - Tombstone - Wyatt Earp obtains warrants from Judge Stilwell for the arrest of Ike and Phin Clanton, and another Cowboy named Pony Diehl, for the attempted murder of Virgil Earp. Wyatt and Morgan Earp, along with Doc Holliday, assemble a posse which turn Charleston inside out looking for the Cowboys without success
February 17, 1882 - Tombstone - The Earp posse leaves Tombstone heavily armed and with a warrant for the arrest of "Pony" Diehl, who was a suspect in a January 1882 stage robbery. Unsuccessful, they return to town a few days later, hearing rumors that the Cowboys were plotting further revenge
March 10, 1882 - Mescal Springs, Arizona - Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and others encounter Curly Bill Brocius and several other outlaws near Mescal Springs, Arizona. A gunfight erupts with Earp killing Brocius and mortally wounding Johnny Barnes before the other outlaws flee. Dave Rudabaugh is reported to be among the outlaws. Afterwards, he apparently flees south into Mexico
March 18, 1882 - Schieffelin Hall, Tombstone, Arizona - Doc Holliday and Morgan Earp attend "Stolen Kisses", a musical by William Horace Lingard and Company. Afterwards, Doc goes to his room and Morgan heads for Hatch's Saloon and Billiard Parlor, where he is shot and killed
March 20, 1882 - Tucson, Arizona - Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp, James Earp, Warren Earp, Doc Holliday, "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson, and Sherman McMaster guard Virgil and Allie on the way to Tucson. James was to accompany Virgil, Allie, and Morgan's body to the family home in Colton, California. Morgan's wife and parents wait to bury him. Wyatt receives information that Frank Stilwell, Ike Clanton, Hank Swilling, and another cowboy were waiting for them in Tucson. Upon their arrival in Tucson, the Earp party spots Stilwell and other Cowboys. James, Virgil, and Allie board the train to Tucson armed with pistols, rifles and shotguns.
As the train pulls away from the Tucson station, six or seven shots are heard. When Wyatt and his men approach, Frank Stilwell and Ike Clanton run. Stilwell stumbles, allowing Wyatt to catch him.
March 22, 1882 - Off the Chiricahua Road, South Pass, Dragoon Mountains - A part of the Earp posse including Wyatt, Warren, Doc Holliday, Sherman McMaster and "Turkey Creek" Johnson ride about 10 miles (16 km) east to Pete Spence's ranch and woodcutting camp off the Chiricahua Road, below the South Pass of the Dragoon Mountains.
The Earp posse arrives and asks about the location of Pete Spence and Florentino "Indian Charlie" Cruz. They are told that Spence is in jail in Tombstone and that Cruz is cutting wood nearby. They follow the direction given to them and soon ten or twelve shots are heard. The next morning, Cruz's body is found full of bullet holes.
March 24, 1882 - "Iron Springs", Cochise County, Whetstone Mountains, SE Arizona - The Earp posse, including Wyatt, Warren, Doc Holliday, Sherman McMasters, and Texas Jack, rides west towards a prearranged meeting place at a springs, where they expected to meet Smith, who was to bring $1000 from Tombstone, about 20 miles (32 km) to the east.
With Wyatt and Doc Holliday in the lead, the six lawmen surmount a small rise overlooking the springs and are surprised to find nine Cowboys already there: Curly Bill, Pony Diehl, Johnny Barnes, Frank Patterson, Milt Hicks, Bill Hicks, Bill Johnson, Ed Lyle, and Johnny Lyle. They were camped about the springs, cooking a meal, less than 30 feet (9.1 m) down an slight embankment.
Recognizing Earp, Curly Bill fires his shotgun without warning at Wyatt but misses. Earp dismounts, shotgun in hand. The other Cowboys fire their guns. "Texas Jack" Vermillion’s horse is shot and falls on him, pinning his leg. Lacking cover, Doc, Johnson, and McMaster retreat.
Wyatt returns Curly Bill's gunfire with his own shotgun and shoots Curly Bill in the chest, almost cutting him in half. "Texas Jack" Vermillion tries to retrieve his rifle wedged in the scabbard under his fallen horse. The Cowboys fire a number of shots at the Earp party but the only casualty is Vermillion's horse, which is killed. Doc Holliday helps Vermillion gain cover. After killing Brocius, Earp fires his pistol and shoots Johnny Barnes in the chest and Milt Hicks in the arm.
March 25, 1882 - (While in "Iron Springs") - The Tucson Grand Jury indicts Pete Spence, Frank Stilwell, Florentino Cruz, Frederick Bode, and "John Doe" (Fries) for Morgan Earp's murder
March 28, 1882 - Albuquerque - A local newspaper reports that Earp's posse passed through Albuquerque on 28th
April 2, 1882 - 32km N of Sierra Bonita Ranch - Wyatt Earp's posse is spotted 32km North of Hooker's ranch
April 15, 1882 - Silver City, New Mexico - Earp's posse arrives in Silver City
April 28(?), 1882 - Albuquerque - Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday have a serious disagreement (over Earp's jewish woman) and part ways
May 16, 1882 - Gunnison, Colorado - Doc Holliday is arrested on the Arizona warrant for killing Frank Stillwell. Wyatt Earp intervenes on Holliday's behalf to release him
July 13, 1882 - near Morse Canyon, Arizona - Johnny Ringo, the last leader of "the cowboys" is hunted down and killed
July 21, 1884 - Leadville, Colorado - In Mannie Hyman's Saloon, Holliday has a showdown with Johnny Tyler (from Tombstone) again. Holliday’s worsening health, coupled with the threat of being extradited back to Arizona Territory for prosecution if he broke Colorado law, gave Tyler the winning hand
August 19, 1884 - Leadville - Doc Holliday nearly kills Billy Allen in another dispute
March 27, 1885 - Leadville - Doc Holliday is arrested
April 4, 1885 - Denver - Doc Holliday is found innocent of charges and released. He moves to Denver to avoid further troubles with Johnny Tyler
April(?) 1(?), 1886 - Denver - Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp meet in Denver's Windsor Hotel
May 5, 1887 - Aspen, Colorado - Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp arrive in Aspen, Colorado
May 20(?), 1887 - Glenwood Springs, Colorado - Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp arrive in Glenwood Springs, via Aspen
November 8, 1887 - Glenwood Springs - John Henry "Doc" Holliday dies, aged 36 =(END)
The man pictured in the article as being Doc Holliday is in fact not Doc Holliday. His name is actually John Escapule. He is the great grandfather of current Tombstone mayor Dusty Escapule. ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the feedback! Could you send me a link to a correct picture (if there's any)?
ReplyDeleteFantastic timeline and for also getting the actual history.
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