A Chronicle of the Plum Creek Shooting Society Agarita Ranch September 2016 Lockhart, Texas Doc Holiday his month, we move dental practice in Atlanta, Dallas, which at the time beyond Soiled Doves, Georgia. In 1873 he was was the end of the railroad. T“tossing fannies” and diagnosed with tuberculosis. Doc Holliday was an Big Nose Kate to learn about After consulting with a unusual man in the Old Kate’s long-time companion, West. He was well educated Doc Holliday. John Henry and refined. He was fluent Holliday was born in 1851 in Latin, played the piano and died in 1887 at the age well, was a snappy dresser of 36. Holliday was an Old and displayed the manners West dentist, gambler and of a Southern gentleman. gunfighter, who is usually He opened a dental office in remembered Dallas, but patients feared best for his going to see him because of friendship with his chronic cough. He Wyatt Earp and needed to find another way his to make a living. His smarts participation in made him a "natural” the Gunfight at gambler and gambling the O.K. Corral. quickly became his primary After graduation from the means of support. He was Pennsylvania College of Doc Holliday an active participant and a Dental Surgery at the age of dealer of both Faro and 20, “Doc” Holliday set up a poker. Because of his poor number of physicians and health, Doc was moody. He being told he had only a was also a heavy drinker short time to live , Holliday Ditties from Jake …………………. 6 and had no fear of death. packed his bags and headed Gambling was a dangerous Find Delta Raider ………………… 7 west for a warmer and dryer profession so he honed his Long Juan Here …………………… 6 climate. He hoped the move skills with a six-shooter, RO’s Corner ……………………….. 8 might slow the deterioration quickly becoming a deadly of his health and extend his gunman. Stories from Jake …..…………… 5 T life. Holliday settled first in No Word from DHD this month. He is on the road traveling with wife Barely There. He returns for the October match and says, See Ya at President - Dragon Hill the Agarta!! Dave David Donaldson Austin, TX 512-626-8189 [email protected] Plum Creek President Vice President - Joe Dragon Hill Dave Darter Tom Morris We had a great match in September: Seguin, TX 210-464-3969 66 shooters, no down ranges, lots of [email protected] smiling, lots of sweating and lots of Secretary & help. Thanks! It was our first match since signing a new contract with our Editor, Agarita Gazette landowner. We have some new clean- - Long Juan up obligations and got lots of help John Soule picking up stray shotshells, a few Austin, TX 512-750-3923 cigarette butts and other trash. [email protected] Thanks to all who came early and Treasurer - Delta Raider stayed late to help. We will need Chuck Leshikar continuing help in the future, with Lockhart, TX 512-227-1389 Vice President Joe Darter both set-up before the match and [email protected] tear-down/clean-up after the match. Territorial Governor - Please HELP! A few cannot do it all alone. Jake Paladin We had 11 clean shooters (17%) in September. J.P. Forage Congratulations to all category winners. Our top ten shooters Austin, TX 512-970-4990 were Kickshot, Dodge City Mike, Skyhawk Hans, yours [email protected] truly, Joe Darter, Dutch Van Horn, Rusty Shackleford, Scoring Marshal - Frank Longshot, Bison Jim, Lightning McQueen and General Burleson Manchaca Kid. Thanks to our Scoring Marshal, General Burleson, who has found a way to post overall scores without Safety and Flag Marshal - the Working Cowboy/Cowgirl category. Those categories shoot Artiman only one pistol and rifle and therefore have faster times skew Jay Davis the overall results for those shooting all four guns. The Lockhart, TX 512-762-7175 [email protected] working categories are great for new shooters and for those who just don’t want to shoot as many guns, particularly in the Range Deputy - Lefty Leo hot weather, but it has been confusing to have their scores commingled with the other categories that shoot four guns. Web Marshal - Bolo Bob Long Juan will soon be circulating notice of our annual meeting in November when we will be electing and Vice www.pccss.org President and Treasurer. Be sure to mark your calendars. Page 2 Holliday was fined for Long Branch Saloon, a here’s your chance to do “gaming” in Dallas. He number of Texas cowboys some. Pray and jerk your moved to Denison, but soon arrived in town with a herd gun! Your time has come!" decided to leave Texas. He of cattle. After many weeks Suddenly, a voice sounded traveled to Denver and on the trail, the cowboys behind Morrison. worked as a Faro dealer. He were ready to "let loose.” No, friend, you draw – or later lived in Cheyenne, Leading the cowboy mob throw your hands up! Deadwood, Dodge City and was a man named Tobe Any of you bastards pulls Breckenridge, Texas. While Driskell and another named a gun and your leader in Breckenridge, Doc was Ed Morrison. Wyatt had here loses what’s left of seriously wounded in a previously encoutered and his brains! dispute with another humiliated Morrisoin in It was Doc, his revolver at gambler. After recovering Wichita. Morrison’s temple. He had from his injuries, Holliday The cowboys rushed into come out from the back moved to Fort Griffin, Texas. town, galloping down Front room when his card game He met and began his long Street with guns blazing, was interrupted by all the relationship with Big Nose blowing out shop windows. commotion out front. The Kate while dealing cards at Entering the Long Branch cowboys dropped their guns John Shanssey’s Saloon. Saloon, they began and Earp credited Holliday Holliday also first met Wyatt harassing the customers. with saving his life. The two Earp in Fort Griffin. When When Marshal Earp came to became fast friends as a Wyatt became Deputy City investigate, he encountered result. Later Wyatt said, Marshal in Dodge City, Doc the cowboys, their guns in The only way anyone and Kate moved there. hand, his still in his could have appreciated One night in 1878, while holsters. Morrison yelled, the feeling I had for Doc Doc was dealing Faro in the “You’re such a fighter, Earp; after the Driskill- Morrison business would have been to have stood in my boots at the time Doc came through the doorway. Dodge City was not a frontier town for long. By 1879 it was too tame for the likes of Earp, Holliday and Big Nose Kate. It was time to move on to places not yet reached by the civilizing railroad, places where easy money was still to be made. By this time Doc was as well known for his prowess as a gunfighter as for his gambling. In 1880, Holliday Life-Size Statues of Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday at the Historic headed for the silver-mining Railroad Depot in Tucson, Arizona Page 3 McLaury's belly and sent Billy Allen entered the McLaury's own shot wild saloon looking for trouble. through Wyatt’s coattail. When Allen drew his pistol, The 30-second shootout left Holliday fired two shots, one Billy Clanton and Frank and hitting Allen in the arm and Tom McLaury dead. Virgil disarming him. A news Earp was shot in the leg and report in the Leadville Daily Morgan suffered a shoulder Democrat stated, wound. Big Nose Kate The public sentiment, reported that Holliday came which has nothing to do back to his room after the with the law, is largely fight, sat on the bed, wept in favor of Holliday. and said, "That was awful – The manlier class of the awful." community not only For reasons discussed in the appreciates this, but article about Big Nose Kate has little criticism to boom town of Tombstone, in an earlier issue of the make as to his actions Arizona Territory, to join Gazette, it was not too long in connection with his Wyatt and his brothers. thereafter that Holliday said trouble with Allen. Big Nose Kate, also on her farewell to Kate for good. He By the winter of 1885, way to Tombstone, ran into moved to Colorado, where he fearing a bout of pneumonia, Doc in Prescott, Arizona. He spent the rest of his life. Holliday moved to Denver. was winning big at the Doc increasingly used Though his health did not tables and had pocketed alcohol and laudanum to improve, he was able to see $40,000 in winnings. Kate ease the pain of his his old friend Wyatt Earp was happy to keep him tuberculosis. His health when they met in the lobby company. Holliday reached and his skills as a gambler of the Windsor Hotel. Sadie Tombstone in the early and gunfighter began to Marcus, Earp’s common-law summer of 1880. He was deteriorate. Holliday led a wife, described the skeletal quickly caught up in the Holliday as having a local politics and violence continuous cough and that led to the Gunfight at standing on "unsteady legs.” the O.K. Corral, which Holliday’s health continued occurred in October 1881. to deteriorate. In 1887, No one really knows who prematurely gray and badly fired the first shot, but Doc ailing, Holliday made his scored the first hit. His shot way to the fashionable Hotel tore through Frank Glenwood in Glenwood Leadville, Colorado Springs, Colorado, to take quiet and uneventful life in advantage of the curative Leadville, Colorado, until the power of hot springs there.