Though he was a native son of the old South, John Henry Holliday earned lasting fame in the old West in the 1880s. He was born August 14, 1851, in Georgia’s Spalding County in the small town of Griffin. In 1864, with the advancing threat of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s forces moving through Georgia during
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The Georgia native was involved in numerous affrays in the Old West over the years, and didn’t hesitate to defend himself – usually to great advantage. Nevertheless, many shootings attributed to Doc Holliday either never happened at all, or were simply done by other individuals. John Henry Holliday was born and raised in the Georgia
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He was well-educated, and, early in his life, seemed destined for a long productive career as a dentist. Fate, however, dealt him a different hand, sending him upon a circuitous route through the Old West where he faced many challenges before tuberculosis finally took him.
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Though much of his life has been documented for posterity, a number of gaps still exist in the collective record of his life and times. One would just naturally anticipate that a person as “celebrated” as is John Henry Holliday would have little unknown information in the story of his life – even with a
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As of this writing (2022), John Henry “Doc” Holliday has been dead for almost 135 years, but his legend today is more profoundly and widely-known than ever before. He was born in Griffin, Georgia, and spent a fair amount of time in the Atlanta area, visiting with his uncle’s family and later practicing dentistry. Many
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