He was glad when Doc Holliday shot first. He opened up about it then, saying that he knew there would never be peace in Tombstone or anywhere else with those vermin Clanton's around. In an interview Wyatt did later in life as an old man, he admitted to being reluctant to talk about it in the past. He knew that the town would be better off with the Clanton's, whom he donned drunken assholes. This forced Doc to clean up the mess by killing the remaining Clanton's and their supporters. According to Doc, when the bullets started flying Wyatt fired off some shots then ran away. Little is mentioned about what happened during the shootout, except that the Clanton's lost and Doc, alongside Wyatt, were made famous by the event. Corral in Tombstone where he sided with Wyatt Earp and others against the Clanton family and their supporters. Perhaps one of his most famous endeavors came during a shootout at the O.K.

They soon befriended each other and they traveled across the lands together in search of outlaws. Wyatt knew then that he was indebted to Holliday and was bound to him forever. He witnessed a man put a gun to Wyatt Earp's back and saved Wyatt by shooing the executioner. In his adult years, Doc became a dentist and gunslinger but didn't practice much in gunslinging. His mother, unfortunately, passed away not long later and from that point onward, he could never again stand tight spaces. John Henry's insistence on seeing his mother, even in secret, would lead to him developing the illness in his adult life. However, as he was missing her, he crawled into a space under her room, and night after night, he would listen to her cry, beg and pray for her recovery. As not to spread the disease, Doc was told he was unable to see her. When Doc was fourteen, his mother became bedridden, as she was dying from tuberculosis. John Henry Holliday was born on Augto Henry Burroughs Holiday and Alice Holliday. Upon his freedom, Doc struck a friendship and later romance with Wyatt's great-great-great Granddaughter Wynonna Earp, becoming a true companion and friend to Wynonna and her sister Waverly. After catching tuberculosis in the 1800s, Doc was turned into an unaging immortal being by an iron witch, only to be betrayed by her and trapped in a well for 130 years. Doc is the son of the late Alice Holliday and the late Henry Holliday, the father of Alice Michelle, and the current boyfriend of Wynonna Earp.ĭoc Holliday is an infamous gunslinger and former dentist from the old West, having struck fame due to friendship with Wyatt Earp and their participation in the O.K. John Henry 'Doc' Holliday (born August 14, 1851) is the former best friend of the late Wyatt Earp, and a former member of the government agency Black Badge Division. The Earp sisters, both of them, of course.' ― Doc Holliday src And I'm not ready to lose my greatest love of all. All that loss and the fear of losing so much more has been a yoke on my neck. I lost my best friend, I never even known my own daughter. ' I have literally been to Hell and back.

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