Colorado Doc Holiday

As a kid, I remember watching TV westerns; Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy, The Cisco Kid and the Rifleman. My brothers and I had our 6-shooters, our cowboy boots and hats and we would play cowboy for hours. One of my favorite shows was Wyatt Earp, staring Hugh O’Brien. At my tender years, I don’t think I had any idea that Wyatt Earp was a real person, was maybe more a bad guy than good one or that the show failed to present one of the most important people in Wyatt’s life.

I was thinking about that on a ride that took us through Tombstone, Arizona. This is the location of the west’s most famous gunfight, The Shootout at the O.K. Corral, where the Earp’s and Doc Holliday, sometime dentist, gambler and gunslinger, took part.