Kody Miller
11/4/14
Rough draft
The Wild West was a wild place full of many gunslingers that may have helped form the west. With the west being a wild and dangerous place there were many people that were involved in shaping the west, but mainly Doc Holliday was a huge contributor to the formation of the west. Doc Holliday’s life in the west and his parents and their occupations and Holliday’s occupations threw out his life.
The early life of Doc was very interesting and he helped shape the west. Holliday was born August 14, 1851. He was a dentist by trade. He was born with a cleft palate, and he had to have corrective surgery. Holliday moved away for a while but then he moved back to the south to begin his dental career. But at age 23 he fled to Dallas, Texas. …show more content…
Hennery B. Holliday was his father. He was a pharmacist most of his life. He fought in several wars such as the Cherokee, Indian war, and the Mexican war. His mother was Alice Jane Mckay she was a stay at home mother and taught Holliday how to read and write. Hennery B. Holliday and Alice Jane Mckay got married on January 8, 1849. At age 15 Holliday’s mom died from tuberculosis on September 16, 1866. Their family was very well-known. The Holliday family founded the Pennsylvania College of dental surgery. Shortly after starting his dental career he contracted tuberculosis and only had a short time to live, all the physicians encouraged him to move to a dryer climate to extend his