Given the many reports of gunfights involving Doc Holliday, and at the same time the significant portion that have no way of being proven, I leave it to the reader to decide what they believe. My effort here, as with all timelines and conflict pages, is to gather all the info and put it together. Unless an item can be patently disproven, I will include it in order to provide a full picture.
Year | Date | Name | Town | Notes |
1873 | Unknown | Unknown | Valdosta, GA | Could have happened as far back as 1869, GLRoberts has it when Doc visited his uncle, then probably had to flee |
1875 | 1-Jan | Charles Austin | Dallas, TX | |
1875 | Soldier | Jacksboro, TX | Unverified, possibly Jacob Smith, a black soldier | |
1876 | Summer | Bud Ryan | Denver, CO | Story came from Bat Masterson |
1877 | 4-Jul | Henry Kahn | Breakenridge, TX | |
1877 | Ed Bailey | Fort Griffin, TX | Possibly occurred in Brackett or San Angela | |
1878 | December | Kid Colton | Trinidad, CO | About a week after arriving from Dodge |
1878 | December | Unnamed | Otero, NM | John Myers Myers claims Doc was charged and freed for killing an unnamed man in Otero before arriving in Las Vegas |
1879 | 19-Jul | Mike Gordon | Las Vegas, NM | JMM has this shooting as the reason for Doc leaving LV and heading back to Dodge before catching up with Wyatt and heading to Prescott |
1880 | June | Charley White | Las Vegas, NM | |
1881 | 10-Oct | Milt Joyce | Tombstone, AZ | |
1881 | 13-Aug | Old Man Clanton | Tombstone, AZ | Claimed by Tanner to be present at this gunfight; no certainty of shots or kills |
1881 | 26-Oct | Frank McLowery | Tombstone, AZ | Involved in one side against the other |
1881 | 26-Oct | Billy Clanton | Tombstone, AZ | Involved in one side against the other |
1882 | Johnny Ringo | Tombstone, AZ | No shots fired but an exciting faceoff for the historically intrigued | |
1882 | 20-Mar | Frank Stillwell | Tombstone, AZ | Based on Stillwell’s mangled corpse, most likely several shooters |
1882 | 22-Mar | Florentino Cruz | Tombstone, AZ | One of several shooters, to a body with many bullet holes |
1882 | 24-Mar | Cow-Boys | Tombstone, AZ | Most likely no shots hit their mark |
1882 | 13-Jul | Johnny Ringo | Tombstone, AZ | One of the possible killers of Johnny Ringo |
1884 | 19-Aug | Billy Allen | Leadville, CO | |
Total Recorded Conflicts: 20 | ||||
Total Recorded Killings: 2-16* |
* This number is impossible to know for sure. He could have been involved in as many as 16 shots striking their human target, or it could have been as little as a minimal number like 2. I suppose in the range of 2-16 there’s a number for anyone to be happy with.