Description: Myers collection image of John Henry "Doc" Holliday taken in Leadville, Colorado, in 1884. Family documentation attests to the FACT that this image was the last sent to them. Doc died a little over three years later in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. A couple of collectors have "said" they had the last Doc Holliday image but all have been of quite healthy men. Doc had tuberculosis and had been constantly getting worse until it became completely military prior to his death. In a contemporary newspaper account in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, he was described as hardly being able to walk, stooped over, and with nearly solid white hair, coughing constantly and very short of breath.
Note Doc Holliday in this authentic image taken in 1884. He is gaunt, much aged and sick looking. Certainly no where near a healthy man as in previous "last photos" of him. The tuberculosis was not quite fully military but was soon to be, leading to his death. He holds a handkerchief in his hands which have become thin and boney looking. It is a sad image to behold; the image of a young, dying man. Perhaps the most important Doc Holliday photograph ever to be found as it finally answers the questions: What DID Doc Holliday look like near the end of his life? What did he look like dying of tuberculosis? Here is the answer.
Doc at this point was not quite through. On August 19, 1884, he ran into two of his old enemies, Johnny Tyler and Billy Allen, in the Hyman Saloon in Leadville. Allen had been threatening Holliday's life. Holliday fired at Allen and wounded him in the right arm. Holliday leaned over the cigar case on the bar and fired again but missed Allen. Men in the saloon grabbed Holliday and disarmed him. On March 28, 1884, a jury found Holliday not guilty of attempted murder. On November 8, 1887, Holliday died in Glenwood Springs, Colorado of tuberculosis.
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