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Holliday, John, "Doc"
     
Holliday, John, "Doc"
(1849-1887), a friend of the US marshal Wyatt Earp. He fought on the side of Earp and his brothers in the gunfight at the OK Corral. He was a gambler and dentist, and one of the most dangerous gunfighters of the wild west. He died of tuberculosis.
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