Doc's weapon of choice early in his western career was an 1851 Colt Navy revolver given him by his uncle, one of four. The remaining three pistols were given by Uncle John to his own sons. Later Doc carried a nickel-plated . 41 caliber Colt Thunderer or the .
Kilmer's Doc carries an ivory-gripped, nickelplated Model 1877 Colt Lightning/Thunderer double-action revolver in a shoulder holster as his first weapon of choice. He also carries an ivory-gripped Colt Single Action Army model in a hip holster.
Some of Doc's guns are lost to history. He most likely pawned some of his “jewelry” now and then as his fortunes declined. For example: his shootout with Billy Allen in Leadville, Colorado (08/19/1884) appears to have been with a borrowed gun. (Maybe a Thunderer?)
Though many gunfighters were remembered to be dangerous with a pistol during the American frontier, only a few known historical individuals have been noted by historians as "fast", such as Wild Bill Hickok, Doc Holliday, John Wesley Hardin, Luke Short, Tom Horn and Billy the Kid.
Original question: “Who was the fastest gunslinger in the Old West?” It's probably a toss up between Wild Bill Hickok, who claimed to have killed 100 men, or Doc Holliday. Holliday only killed one to three men. Most of Hickok's kills were while he was in the Union Army during the Civil War as a civilian scout.
When Doc declares that he should "hate" Johnny Ringo because he reminds him too much of himself, Wyatt Earp tries to assuage the younger gunsel by explaining that Doc's drunk and not in command of his faculties.
The Wyatt Earp gun on display at the Arizona History Museum. Inside the Arizona History Museum beside the University of Arizona campus, held in a glass display, is a cream handled Colt . 45 revolver that museum officials say once belonged to Tombstone legend Wyatt Earp.
The Colt Buntline Special was a long-barreled variant of the Colt Single Action Army revolver, which Stuart N. Lake described in his best-selling but largely fictionalized 1931 biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal.
As he lay dying, Holliday is reported to have asked the nurse attending him for a shot of whiskey. When she told him no, he looked at his bootless feet, amused. The nurses said that his last words were, "This is funny." He always figured he would be killed someday with his boots on.
Handshake Refusal: Doc Holliday refuses to shake the hand of the corrupt fop of a sheriff who is in league with the Cowboy gangs, though this is because he's a Lawman, and has nothing to do with his corrupt foppery. Happily Married: Virgil and Allie Earp.
Any fan of the 1993 movie Tombstone is familiar with the gambling and poker exploits of this legendary Old West figure. Doc Holliday, a trained dentist, also spent much of his time at the poker table and gunfighting. After earning a degree in dentistry, he set up a practice in Georgia.
John Peters Ringo (May 3, 1850 – July 13, 1882), known as Johnny Ringo, was an American Old West outlaw loosely associated with the Cochise County Cowboys in frontier boomtown Tombstone, Arizona Territory. He took part in the Mason County War in Texas during which he committed his first murder.
Despite his formidable reputation as a deadly gunslinger, Doc Holliday only engaged in eight shootouts during his life, and it has been verified that he killed two men.
In the film, though, Val Kilmer carries a pair of nickel-plated, ivory-handled 4¾-inch guns (an 1877 Colt Lightning and a Colt Single Action Army) which allowed Kilmer to show off his gun handling skills.
Doc's weapon of choice early in his western career was an 1851 Colt Navy revolver given him by his uncle, one of four. The remaining three pistols were given by Uncle John to his own sons. Later Doc carried a nickel-plated . 41 caliber Colt Thunderer or the .
45-caliber Revolver: $225,000. Wyatt Earp is one of the most well known lawmen of all time. Working as the deputy sheriff in Tombstone, Arizona, Earp was the epitome of the rough and tough wild west man.
The problem is the guns most likely never existed. There's no secondary source for any Buntline Special before Lake's book was published, let alone one in Earp's possession. But that didn't matter. The idea of a legendary lawman like Earp having a special revolver was like Arthur and his sword Excalibur.
A pistol belonging to famous gunslinger Doc Holliday is now at the Frontier Historical Museum in Glenwood Springs, according to the Post Independent. The derringer pistol is believed to have been taken from a room in a hotel in Glenwood Springs where Holliday died in 1887.
Earp was the last surviving participant of the OK Corral shootout. Earp died at his home in Los Angeles, possibly of chronic cystitis, on January 13, 1929, at age 80.
"This is funny" are the last words of Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday in Tombstone, and there's a good reason he finds things so amusing. Tombstone was one of two competing biopics about legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, with Kevin Costner's rival movie having a much larger budget.
John Henry “Doc” Holliday was a dentist who suffered from tuberculosis. He moved to Tombstone, Arizona for its dry climate. There, he became a fierce gambler, befriended Wyatt Earp, and was involved in one the west's most notorious shootouts—the OK Corral.
When he looks at his feet at the end of the film, it's because he finds it funny that after the life he's lived, he's dying in a bed without his boots on.
