Doc Holliday committed his first murder, killing a man for
shooting up his New Mexico saloon.
Despite his formidable reputation as a deadly gunslinger,
Doc Holliday only engaged in eight shootouts during his
life, and it has been verified that he killed two men.
Still, the smartly dressed ex-dentist had a remarkably
fearless attitude toward death and danger, perhaps
because he was slowly dying from tuberculosis.
His hard drinking and tuberculosis eventually caught up
with him, and he retired to a Colorado health resort where
he died in 1887.
Struck by the irony of such a peaceful end to a violent life,
his last words reportedly were “This is funny.”
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