![]() This is a very limited edition and only 250 1st Edition copies were produced, each one numbered with a Certificate of Authenticity from Doc Holliday Productions ®. If you notice that a particular Doc Holliday CD release or compilation is missing from the list above. Others say his family in Georgia claimed his body and buried him back home.Doc Holliday From The Vault Doc Holliday Homepage (click on Artist's name above to return to artist's main page) Category: Southern Rock. After the Tombstone gunfight, Holliday settled in Glenwood Springs, Colo. Trimble says even worse than misidentifying Doc Holliday is not knowing where’s he buried. So he’s gotta be well known, but somebody just said later on, years later, 'that’s Doc Holliday,'” Trimble said. The thing is we know who John Escapule was. “It is a very popular picture that’s out there on the sales racks and curio stores and old west stores. Trimble said the other photographs on the web are of another Arizona man named John Escapule. ![]() “This is funny that as famous as he was, at the time, there aren’t more photographs," Trimble said.īut this hasn’t stopped some people from claiming there are. ![]() Yep, you guessed it - he left right after the gunfight near the OK Corral. But Holliday only stayed in Arizona for three years. Holliday came to Arizona to help the Earp brothers keep the peace in Cochise County during a time when ranchers and cattle rustlers were often at odds. Trimble says Doc Holliday was known to pack a knife and pistol, mostly because he was so sick with tuberculosis he could barely hold up his fists to fight. And then the one that was 1879 when he would have been in his early 30s and it’s so grainy you can’t even tell who it is.”ĭoc Holliday’s real name was John Henry Holliday. “He doesn’t look like a gunfighter at all. He says one of those pictures is when Holliday graduated dental school. ![]() “If you go on the internet and google Doc Holliday you’ll find eight or nine pictures saying that’s Doc Holliday…and only two are correct,” said Marshall Trimble, the Arizona State Historian. He was tall Georgia man with a southern drawl and was very ill.ĭid you know the Doc Holliday image we’ve come to know through items and souvenirs is really not him? Many film critics and historians agree the portrayal of Doc Holliday in the 1994 film "Wyatt Earp" is one of the most realistic interpretations of him. Despite his famous past, we have for decades misidentified him. He’s been depicted in Hollywood films by well-known actors and has been part of Arizona folklore. Historians believe it was taken in Prescott. This grainy photo is one of two pictures historians have confirmed it's Doc Holliday. ![]()
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