The Truth Behind Legendary Old West Gambling Gunslinger Doc Holliday

Fighting the Odds

Holliday suffered from a fatal illness while he and the Earp brothers made a name for themselves out in the West. However, Holliday wasn’t always a gun-toting, mean-mugging bandit. In fact, his life began much differently than one would believe…

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