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Holliday – “Doc Holliday”, a close friend and associate of lawman Wyatt Earp. At age
21, Holliday earned a degree in dentistry from Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. However,
he was soon after diagnosed with tuberculosis, the disease that killed his mother. Hoping the
climate in Arizona would ease his symptoms, he moved west to become gambler, a reputable
profession in Arizona in that day and that is how the story began….