Tombstone Arizona

By 1879 Doc Holliday was a well known gunfighter, and gambler. Through his friendship with Wyatt Earp, Doc eventually made his way to Tombstone, Arizona which was known for its silver. Wyatt and his brothers, Morgan from Montana, James from Dodge City like Wyatt, and Virgil from Prescott, Warren from Parell Iowa, and Newton (I don’t know where he is from) had been in Tombstone for almost 1 year and 1/2 before Doc got there. Virgil and Morgan became law men, while Wyatt went into dealing Faro, and there is no information about what James did.

After Doc left Dodge he went straight to Prescott where he made over $40,000 dollars before heading off to Tombstone with Kate. In Tombstone, Doc and Kate went into business. Kate started up her own business, Tombstone's first "Sporting House", and Doc found himself into Politics.

In Tombstone there was an outlaw gang that basically ran the town. They where known as the "Cowboys". The more well-known Cowboys where "Old man" Clanton, his sons, Ike, Phin, and Billy, the McLaury brothers, Frank and Tom, Curly Bill Brocius, John Ringo , Johny Tyler, and Frank Stillwell. There were allotting more members to this gang.

In October 1880, Johnny Tyler and Doc had a dispute. Doc, ended up drunkenly shot Milt Joyce, the Saloon Owner through the hand, and Parker the bartender through the left foot. Doc got knocked out by Joyce with the butt of his gun. Doc was arrest for assault with a deadly weapon and found guilty. He was fined $20 for the assault and battery and $11.25 for the damages.

On March 15, 1881 four masked men attempted a hold up on a stagecoach, in the attempt they killed 2 men, the driver and the passenger. The Cowboys accused Doc Holliday for being one of the holdup men. Sheriff Behan and Deputy Stillwell found Kate on one of her drunken binges just after Doc thrown her out, got her more drunk and got her to sign an affidavit that Doc had been one of the masked highwaymen and was the one that killed the driver, Bud Philpot. After she sobered up, the Earps mange to get Doc off the hook because all the witness they gathered up that said he was in town during the time of the murder. The case was thrown out. After that Doc left Kate for good, he put her on the next stagecoach and never saw her again.