"Doc Holliday and the OK Corral" Topic

I've been reading Doc Holliday The Life and Legend and decided to do a report on it on my blog. I've got a new M-Audio Fast Track Ultra audio interface so I thought I'd give it a whirl and read a couple of pages from the book that illustrate why I enjoy reading it so much.

I've added a bunch of pictures to illustrate the action and made it as an embedded video. It talks about the incidents that lead up the the fight at the OK Corral (which are pretty different from how it is depicted on TV.) I hope you enjoy it!

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I finished reading the book not so long ago myself, thoroughly enjoyed it.

Nice blog too.

I recently read, "Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait" by Karen Holliday Tanner. Ms Tanner, is a lineal descendant of Doc's cousin Robert A. Holliday. The book has information about Doc's childhood and pre-West existence that are interesting and telling. While the most of the book must be read as a possible revisionist version to fit Holliday family feelings, there is a lot of very good information in it. Including Doc's description as Blonde and Blue-eyed, (perhaps old photo techniques have changed his hair black), that he was over six foot, but weighed 180 at his largest before contracting TB.

Blond eh? Interesting. I can believe it. I was a toe head blond as kid and teenager but as an adult my hair has darkened quite a bit. My grandfather was blond until he entered WWII and got shipped to the Central Pacific. His hair went very dark in the 4 years he served from '43 to '47.

Doc is a very interesting character. In a way he is better left mysterious.

This is kind of an aside, but I spoke to the man that is in charge of replacing Doc Hollidays grave markers.(tomb stones) Seems someone shoots them up about once a year.
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Really? That is interesting! I wonder why?

It is just a memorial marker. His actual burial place isn't properly marked. They know the cemetary but not the actual spot.

Given the number of signs in the rural west that get shot up even without connections to a famous gunfighter I cannot say I'm suprised. Saddened perhaps, but denitely not suprised.

It is a marker for him in the grave yard. This is not in a rural area. It is in the middle of a mid-sized town near a museum etc. Seems to happen around Halloween if that helps.
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I always thought Doc had sandy blond hair, not dark. At least from the photos I saw. I guess I pictured it like my brothers' hair: they were both blond babies and their hair turned dark as they got older.

My brother-in-law is the only adult towhead I personally know. His hair is a startling platinum blond -- startling mostly because he's 44. Of course, he looks like a big viking or Swede, to be honest. He's about 6'4" and huge (alas, much of the chest has settled around his waist these days, but he's still an imposing man who used to routinely bench press 320+ at the gym).