(quoted by Phyllis Bosco) Glenwood Post – August 23, 1985 Tombstone, Arizona – Octo(see Doc’s response below…) The fatally wounded Frank McLaury to Doc, near the end of the gunfight… Ike Clanton – Tombstone, Arizona – morning, October 26, 1881 The dammed son-of-a-bitch has got to fight!” – “The ball is about to open!” Responding to Kate’s claim that Lottie was trying to steal her man. “Why you low down stinking slut! If I should step in soft cow manure, I would not even clean my feet on that bastard!” “…a shiftless, bagged-legged character-a killer and professional cut-throat and not a whit too refined to rob stages or even steal sheep… He is the identical individual who killed poor, inoffensive Mike Gordon and crept through one of the many loopholes that characterized Hoodoo Brown’s judicial dispensation.” He was selfish and had a perverse nature, traits not calculated to make a man popular in the early days on the frontier.” – Holliday had few friends anywhere in the West. “Holliday had a mean disposition and an ungovernable temper, and when under the influence of liquor, was a most dangerous man. Deweese – Doc’s Lawyer – Denver, Colorado c. “I said to him one day: ‘Doctor don’t your conscience ever trouble you?’ ‘No, ‘he replied, with that peculiar cough of his, ‘I coughed that up with my lungs long ago.”Ĭol. The cheerful note of the six-shooter is heard once again among us.” Austin, a saloon keeper, relieved the monotony of the noise of firecrackers by taking a couple of shot at each other yesterday afternoon. “He was always decently peaceable, though his powers when engaged in following his ostensible calling, furthering the ends of justice, made him a terror to the criminal classes of Arizona.”īob Paul, Sheriff of Pima County, Arizona Virgil Earp – Arizona Daily Star – May 30, 1882 He was a slender, sickly, fellow, but whenever a stage was robbed or a row started, and help was needed, Doc was one of the first to saddle his horse and report for duty.” Tales were told that he had murdered men in different parts of the country that he had robbed and committed all manner of crimes, and yet, when persons were asked how they knew it, they could only admit it was hearsay, and that nothing of the kind could really be traced to Doc’s account. He was gentlemanly, a good dentist, a friendly man and yet, outside of us boys, I don’t think he had a friend in the Territory. “There was something very peculiar about Doc. Wyatt Earp – San Francisco Examiner – August 2, 1896 “Doc was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit a long, lean, ash-blond fellow nearly dead from consumption, at the same time the most skilful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew.” “Doc was close to six feet tall, weight – one hundred and sixty pounds, fair complexion, very pretty mustache, blue-grey eyes, and a fine set of teeth” Doc Quotes from others, about Doc in his own time…
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