The board voted to buy the derringer, given to Holliday by his common-law wife, Mary Katherine “Big Nose Kate” Horony-Cummings, a Hungarian-born prostitute. The handle is engraved, “To Doc from Kate.” ...

Wikimedia CommonsDoc Holliday in Tombstone, Arizona circa 1882. When Doc Holliday died in 1887 at the age of 36, his friend Wyatt Earp solemnly and succinctly summed up his fallen comrade’s ...

In 1993’s Tombstone, Kilmer delivered one of the most indelible performances in the genre’s history as the tubercular dentist and gambler John Henry “Doc” Holliday. Beset by coughing fits ...

John Henry “Doc” Holliday is depicted in movies ... in a story told by 1800s lawman Bat Masterson that Holliday fired a gun at some boys — Masterson’s account mentioned they were ...

The handle is engraved, “To Doc from Kate.” The gun is now in a safe-deposit box. The society will plan its exhibition and invite the public to view it as soon as possible. Holliday ...