John Henry ‘Doc’ Holliday - Dodge City, KS
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N 37° 45.174 W 100° 01.279
14S E 410029 N 4178890
Legend of the Wild West, Doc Holliday, is enjoying his favorite pastimes in Dodge City, Kansas.
Waymark Code: WM15432
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 10/12/2021
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This statue invites you to pull up a chair, have a glass of bourbon and play a game of jackpots with Doc Holliday. But don’t try anything untoward as Doc is already reaching for his six-shooter and, if contemporary accounts are true, he won’t hesitate to use it.
John Henry Holliday was born in Georgia to a prominent family and attended dentistry school in Pennsylvania. When he contracted tuberculosis, possibly from a family member, he opted to move west where the dryer climate might extend his life. Finding that dentistry couldn’t pay the bills (no one wants a dentist coughing in their face), Holliday turned to gambling to supplement his income.
Holliday’s above average intelligence, skill with a knife and gun and “I’m going to die from TB anyway, so I’ve got nothing to lose” attitude made ‘Doc’ one tough customer. He often found himself fleeing the law or angry townspeople and as a consequence spent time in many different places throughout Texas, Arizona, Colorado and, of course, Dodge City, Kansas.
Though known mostly for his association with the Earp brothers in the shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, it was in Dodge City where he had first befriended Wyatt Earp. Earp credited Holliday with saving his life in a bar room ambush in Dodge City and the two became lifelong friends.
In 1887, Doc Holliday finally succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of 36 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Wyatt Earp summed up his friend this way: “I found him a loyal friend and good company. He was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long, lean blonde fellow nearly dead with consumption and at the same time the most skillful gambler and nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew.”
Location description: In front of Boot Hill Museum
Statue's Subject: John Henry 'Doc' Holliday
Artist: Janet Zoble
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Visit Instructions:
Photo of the statue with person sitting on bench next to the statue, standing next to the statue or other-wise interacting appropriately with the statue(face of person does not need to show, gps does not need to be in photo).
Extra credit for having fun!!!