Life of ‘Doc’ Holliday Friday at Cow Palace

John Henry “Doc” Holliday survived the historic Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Oct. 26, 1881, only to die peacefully in bed a few years later.

Holliday, who was educated as a dentist, stood with the Earps when they faced the Clantons in Tombstone.

How Holliday got from Georgia to Arizona will be told at a special meeting and luncheon of the Tubac Historical Society Friday, Feb. 16. Deadline for tickets to the $16 event is Monday, Feb. 12.

The speaker will be Wyatt Earp, a distant descendant to the famous Wyatt Earp, another gun in the shoot-out. The modern Earp performed earlier as his famous ancestor at another historical society meeting.

Holliday, a dentist who became a gambler and some say lethal gunman, came to Tombstone in September 1880.

He eventually died from tuberculosis in a Glenwood Springs, Colo., hotel, and was buried there in 1887.

Cost to attend the performance for lunch at Amado’s Cow Palace Restaurant is $16 per person.

Send checks to the Tubac Historical Society, PO Box 3261, Tubac, Ariz., 85646.

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