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Sherman McMasters: "Where is (Wyatt) he?"
Doc Holliday: "Down by the creek, walking on water."
REF: Early in the infamous vendetta, Wyatt Earp walked into the middle of Cottonwood Creek whilst surrounded and under a withering fire from the gang known as "The Cowboys", and unloaded his guns into their midst. ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
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Sweet Mattie, Doc's cousin, Martha Anne "Mattie" Holliday, who in later life joined the Order of the Sisters of Mercy to become Sister Mary Melanie, was said to be the model for the saintly Miss Melanie in "Gone With the Wind." This is certainly not as far-fetched as it sounds. Philip Fitzgerald, the uncle-in-law of Robert Kennedy Holliday (one of Doc's uncles) was the great-grandfather of "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell, but wait - it gets better. Of the eight children born to Robert Kennedy Holliday and his wife was one Martha Anne "Mattie" Holliday, Sister Mary Melanie.
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Beautiful Kate, Known as "Big Nose Kate," Hellion, hard drinker and opium user (woman after my own heart) and sometime hooker... Big Nose Kate was well-educated and came from a fine Hungarian family; her father was a physician. Doc must have found her to be as pleasant a surprise in the often crude surroundings he was forced to endure as she did him.
Although Kate stated on more than one occasion that she and Doc were legally married, no license exists.
A photograph showing a heavy set, coarse-featured woman with wavy hair is often ascribed to as being the likeness of Big Nose Kate. It is not Kate Elder, but a prostitute known as Nosey Kate.
BATTLE AT ALONGSIDE THE OK CORRAL.
While Clanton was being disarmed, arrested, and taken before a judge, Kate claims that Holliday put on his clothes and went up to see the Earps. They had gathered at the corner of 5th Street and Allen, where they could keep an eye on the courtroom to the South, the O.K. Corral a block west, and the various cowboys who were believed to be coming and going from out of town. Eventually, the Earps and Holliday walked down Fremont Street to confront the cowboys in the vacant lot West of Fly's (and Holliday's) boarding house. Kate would have been able to see the fight, just feet away, from her window overlooking the vacant lot. In Kate's version of the gunfight, Holliday had a problem with this "rifle" after the shooting started. He threw it to the ground and drew his pistol. This report fits with what is known of the events, although what Holliday actually threw down would have been his double-barrelled short shotgun (the gun he had emptied when killing Tom McLaury).
It is only from Kate that we know what happened after the fight. Doc Holliday went back to his room and examined a minor flesh wound on his hip, which he had gotten from a bullet fired by Frank McLaury. He sat on the edge of the bed and wept from the shock of what had just happened. "That was awful," Kate claims he said. "Just awful."
Kate stayed at the Arizona Pioneers' Home until her death on November 2, 1940, five days before her 90th birthday.
Kate was a larger-than-life character who lived to see stories of her own life and death (in that alleged gunfight in Bisbee) told as a legend of the Old West. In real life, she died in bed, having survived a world that was hard on both women and horses.
Kate said of life: "Part is funny and part is sad, but such is life any way you take it."
Doc Holliday: "It's true, you are a good woman. Then again, you may be the antichrist." She died alone probable drug overdose.
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Wyatt Earp: "Well, I'll be damned."
Doc Holliday: "You may indeed, if you get lucky."
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Doc Holliday: [to Johnny Ringo] "Why Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave."
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