Profile of the Day: Doc Holliday
On this day in 1881, gunslingers Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp found themselves involved in the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
On October 26, 1881, the long simmering feud between the outlaw Cowboys, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury, and town Marshal Virgil Earp, and lawmen Morgan and Wyatt Earp, erupted in a 30-second shootout in Tombstone, Arizona. Holliday was a good friend of Earp’s and was assisting as a temporary policeman at the time. By the end of the shootout, 3 men were dead and many others wounded, including Holliday.
Today, Holliday is remembered as an American folk legend of the Wild West for his involvement in the infamous shootout and his friendship with Wyatt Earp.
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