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They go together like guns and holsters. Whiskey and shot glasses. Cowboys and horses. People like the guy who tells it like it is and doesn't back down and stands up for right.

Doc holliday cause of death

But the person who is the most intriguing is the charming, surly, quick-tempered, loyal, educated one. We talked to Roberts about some of the lesser-known aspects of one of the West's best-known second bananas. Holliday was born in Griffin, Georgia, spent some of his childhood in Valdosta, Georgia, and was educated in the classics.

He moved to Philadelphia at 19 to enroll in the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, and later practiced dentistry in stops that included St. Louis, Atlanta and Dallas. He gave it up as he moved about, his health declined and he found more success as a gambler. Holliday's reputation — as a fast gun, a killer and as perhaps someone with a death wish — was probably more fearful than the man himself.

He's believed to have killed fewer than a handful of men in his life.