Wednesday, July 10, 2013

A visit to Doc Holliday's grave site

Legendary gun slinger, gambler and dentist, Doc Holliday died in Glenwood Springs at the tender age of 36 in 1887 from tuberculosis, the same ailment that claimed his mother at age 25.  He was a friend of Wyatt Earp and participated in the Gunfight at the OK Corral.  For relief from his sufferring, he moved to Glenwood Springs to seek relief in the hot springs pools.  He died penniless as was buried in a pine box.  Cemetery records were either lost, destroyed or stolen, so nobody really knows where his final resting place actually is.  

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