Editing Doc Holliday (section)

=== Fight in Georgia ===
There are disputed rumors that Holliday was involved in a shooting on the [[Withlacoochee River (Suwannee River)|Withlacoochee River]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], in 1873. The earliest mention is by [[Bat Masterson]] in a profile of Doc he wrote in 1907. According to that story, when Holliday was 22, he went with some friends to a swimming hole on his uncles' land, where they discovered it was occupied by a group of black U.S. Army soldiers who were in the area as part of the federal government's occupying forces in the South.<ref name=roberts2006/>{{rp|64–67}}

Susan McKey Thomas, the daughter of Doc's uncle Thomas S. McKey, said her father told her: "They rode in on the Negroes in swimming in a part of the Withlacoochee River that "Doc" and his friends had cleared to be used as their swimming hole. The presence of the Negroes in their swimming hole enraged "Doc," and he drew his pistol, shooting over their heads to scare them off." Papa said, "He shot over their heads!"<ref>{{cite web |last1=Folsom |first1=Allen |title=Doc Holliday and the Swimming Hole Incident |url=https://www.valdosta.edu/academics/library/depts/archives-and-special-collections/regional-history/folsom01.php |website=www.valdosta.edu – Valdosta State University|access-date=September 13, 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

According to Masterson's story, Holliday leveled a double-barreled shotgun at them, and when they exited the swimming hole, killed two of the youths. Some family members thought it best that Holliday leave the state, but other members of Holliday's family dispute those accounts.<ref name=roberts2006/>{{rp|64–67}} Researcher and historian Gary Roberts searched for contemporary evidence of the event for many months without success. [[Allen Barra]], an author who focuses on Wyatt Earp, also searched for evidence corroborating the incident and found no credibility in Masterson's story.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=Gary L. |title=Trailing an American Mythmaker: History and Glenn G. Boyer's Tombstone Vendetta |url=http://www.tombstonehistoryarchives.com/?page_id=88 |website=Tombstone History Archives |access-date=September 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324205125/http://www.tombstonehistoryarchives.com/?page_id=88 |archive-date=March 24, 2012 |date=March 24, 2012}}</ref>