Dobro, ovde sam se nasalio malo, ipak je umro u krevetu, ali to je interesantna urbana legenda. Inace John Henry "Doc" Holliday je bio odlican matematicar i filozof. Najpoznatiji zubar, revolveras i poker igrac svih vremena xD. Imao je 36 godna kada je umro. Evo koga zanima moze da procita nesto o njemu.
John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American gambler, gunfighter and dentist of the American Old West, who is usually remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
"Doc" Holliday was born in Griffin, Georgia, to Henry Burroughs Holliday and Alice Jane Holliday (née McKey).[1] His father served in both the Mexican-American War and the Civil War.[2] His family baptized him at the First Presbyterian Church in 1852.[3]
In 1864, his family moved to Valdosta, Georgia.[3] Holliday's mother died of tuberculosis on September 16, 1866, when he was 14 years old.[1] Three months later, his father married Rachel Martin. While in Valdosta, he attended the Valdosta Institute,[3] where he received a strong classical secondary education in rhetoric, grammar, mathematics, history, and languages — principally Latin, but also French and some Ancient Greek.[3][4]
In 1870, the 19-year-old Holliday left home to begin dental school in Philadelphia. On March 1, 1872, he received the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery.[1] Later that year, he opened a dental office with Arthur C. Ford in Atlanta.[4] While in Atlanta, Holliday resided with his uncle and his family while beginning his career as a dentist there.[5]
Doc Holliday's famous cousin (by marriage) was Margaret Mitchell, best known for authoring Gone With the Wind. It has been said, but not confirmed, that the character Ashley Wilkes is modeled after Holliday.[6]
Dodge City was not a frontier town for long; by 1879, it had become too respectable for the kinds of people who had seen it through its early days. For many, it was time to move on to places not yet reached by the civilizing railroad, places where money was to be made. Holliday, by this time, was as well known for his prowess as a gunfighter and for his gambling, though the latter was his trade and the former simply a reputation. Through his friendship with Wyatt and the other Earp brothers, especially Morgan and Virgil, Holliday made his way to the silver-mining boom town of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in September 1880. The Earps had been there since December 1879. Some accounts state the Earps sent for Holliday when they realized the problems they faced in their feud with the Cowboy faction. In Tombstone, Holliday quickly became embroiled in the local politics and violence that led up to the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in October 1881.
As he lay dying, Holliday allegedly asked for a drink of whiskey. Amused, he looked at his bootless feet as he died—no one ever thought that he would die in bed, with his boots off. His last words were, "Now, that's funny." John Henry "Doc" Holliday died November 8, 1887. He was 36.[3]
In an 1896 article, Wyatt Earp had this to say about Holliday, "Doc was a dentist not a lawman or an assassin, whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun that I ever knew."[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Holliday
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