It would be a rare thing for a man to say he had never heard of Doc Holliday - Dr. John H. Holliday. For this man was schooled to become a dentist, and did practice at times, but gravitated to the gambling table and the thrilling excitement of a knife or gunfight. Wyatt Earp said of him: "The most dangerous man alive." Doc had tuberculosis, and this may account for his philosophy of dangerous living. …
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…define what the country was to become. Both types of men were essential to this process. The morality of the period was played out by the characters within it. The complex issues concerning these men are still being debated today, 106 years later. More movies and books have been written about the Tombstone conflicts in 1880-81 than any other frontier event. The story of John H. Behan is one of the most intriguing stories of all.