Doc Holliday

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This handkerchief in his eyes may have shown people his intelligent, well educated side. This educated side is a side of Doc that few people know about today. Usually when someone hears the name , they think about fighting, drinking, and gambling, all of these are true of Doc, but these people had barely scratched the surface. As a young man Doc attended Valdosta institute where he became knowledgeable of the Greek, Latin, and French languages. Amazingly Doc�s favorite subject
was rhetoric, his teachers claimed that Doc had a way with words
unsurpassed by anyone in his class. All of these factors may have
contributed to Doc having a handkerchief with him on his final day of

life.

A second item which might have been found in Doc Hollidays pocket on the day he died is a small pocket knife. Doc might have had a pocket knife first of all because he was a dentist by trade. Being adentist may seem like it has nothing to do with having a pocket knife,but being a dentist by ...

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may seem like its an overplay, but when

asked what he did, Doc replied "I am a gambler" he made a good living off of gambling for most of his professional career. Doc would travel from city to city wining out bar after bar, until the city was dry, because Doc had single handedly won all of the money circulating in that town from gambling. The deck of cards could have been Doc�s special deck of cards, possibly he won everytime he used that deck, possibly that was a trick deck, this would explain why Doc might have won everytime he used it. The deck of cards might also have been in Doc�s pocket because it is said that at the time of his death, Doc had just finished playing a ...

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