Doc Holliday’s gun returning to Glenwood

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The board voted to buy the derringer, given to Holliday by his common-law wife, Mary Katherine "Big Nose Kate" Horony-Cummings, a Hungarian-born prostitute. The handle is engraved, "To Doc from Kate."

Holliday, a dentist and gambler, was one of the Old West's most famous gunfighters. Just 36 years old and suffering from tuberculosis, he came to Glenwood Springs in 1887 in hopes that the vapor caves would help his ailment. It was in vain, and he died in a bed at the Hotel Glenwood, at what is now the northeast corner of Eighth Street and Grand Avenue.

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