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Doc Holliday Confederate Army
1,758 wordsDoc Holliday: A man in search of normality. John Henry Holliday, perhaps one of the most legendary gunfighters of the west, lived in reality a life built on necessity and simply followed it and made due with the blows that were dealt to him. Born August 14, 1851 to Alice and Henry Holliday, John Henry Holliday entered the world already at a disadvantage with a serious birth defect. The defect known as a cleft palate and a partially cleft lip, basically made suckling his mothers breast impossible...
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Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday
1,806 words... ge coach for Denver, Colorado. Along the way, he stopped at Fort Griffin which, at the time, was the center of a flourishing cattle industry. Approximately two thousand hunters and cowboys annually visited Ft. Griffin. Their money and existence attracted gamblers and prostitutes alike, quickly giving Ft. Griffin the reputation as the craziest town in Texas. Docs stay was cut short when he was again arrested for gambling which was more than likely, a sign of showing a newcomer unwelcome ness ...
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Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday
824 wordsTombstone is a movie set back in the 1800 's whenever people were allowed to carry guns and murders in the towns were a usual thing. This particular movie includes several legends of the "Old West", such as Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Texas Jack, Johnny Ringo, and several others. Doc Holliday was the calm sarcastic type, who was addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. Because of Doc's addiction, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis which often made him sick. Doc's wife was a party-type girl, with no car...
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Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday
4,776 wordsThe story of John Henry Doc Holliday is somewhat different from what most people think. He served no government. He wasn t the victim of social oppression. He was not one who you would want to be your enemy. He was on of the coolest killers ever to snatch a gun from hiding. This is the story of his life and his legendary friend ship with Wyatt Earp. Doc was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic...
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Santa Fe Doc Holliday
815 wordsFORD COUNTY by Brandon Noll Ford County was named in honor of Colonel James H. Ford, of the Second Colorado Calvary, Commander at Fort Dodge, once a Military Reservation of about 12, 000 acres. It was the most important military outpost on the Santa Fe Trail from about 1858 to 1882. Land was homesteaded by settlers and some land was purchased, coming from two sources, the Santa Fe Land Grant and the Osage Treaty Lands. Dodge City, was declared the county seat and was a famous frontier town and s...
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Doc Holliday Shakespeare Play
2,158 wordsIn the 1940? s, protagonists and antagonists were easily distinguished in America? s Western-style films. However in John Ford? s film, " My Darling Clementine" , which depicts the famous story of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday? s character is portrayed as an elusive, somewhat ineffective man. Not until one of the final scenes does the viewer have confirmed that Holliday is actually a fair and just man. He then becomes a member of the protagonists with the Earp brothers, although remaining a...
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Wyatt Earp Doc Holliday
1,383 wordsFew gunmen in history have been as notorious as the late John Doc Holliday. Part of the reason Doc has enjoyed such a famed history is because of the overall descent man he was, that is when hewn t gambling, drinking, and gun slinging. When Doc died he might have had a handkerchief, a pocket knife, a deck of poker cards, a flask half full of whiskey, and a small essay entitled My Friend Doc Holliday by Wyatt Earp. The most important item Doc would have had on him when he died was a handkerchief....
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