"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."
Throughout the 1870s and '80s, dentist-turned-gunfighter Doc Holliday more than earned his nickname as the "Deadly Dentist" while he roamed through towns across the Wild West. Gambling and drinking when he wasn't fixing teeth, he developed a reputation in saloons and poker rooms as the quickest draw in the West. He even once leapt across the poker table and sliced an opponent across the belly with a knife before he even knew what hit him.
But his life truly became legend after he followed his friend and sometime lawman Wyatt Earp to Tombstone, Arizona — where they got tangled up with a gang of outlaws and doled out deadly frontier justice during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Read the truth behind the myths about this iconic Wild West gunslinger: https://allthatsinteresting.com/doc-holliday