Editing Doc Holliday (section)

=== Heads farther west ===
Holliday headed to [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], following the stage routes and gambling at towns and army outposts along the way. During the summer of 1875, he settled in Denver under the alias "Tom Mackey" and found work as a [[Faro (card game)|faro]] dealer for John A. Babb's Theatre Comique at 357 Blake Street. He got into an argument with Bud Ryan, a well-known and tough gambler. They drew knives and fought and Holliday left Ryan seriously wounded.<ref name="LegendsofAmerica">{{cite web| url=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-docholliday.html| title= Doc Holliday| access-date=November 7, 2011| website= legendsofamerica.com| publisher=Legends of America| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111024013210/http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-docholliday.html| archive-date=October 24, 2011| df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Holliday left when he learned about gold being discovered in Wyoming. On February 5, 1876, he arrived in [[Cheyenne, Wyoming]]. He found work as a dealer for Babb's partner, Thomas Miller, who owned the [[Bella Union Saloon]]. In the autumn of 1876, Miller moved the Bella Union to [[Deadwood, South Dakota]] (site of the [[Black Hills Gold Rush|gold rush]] in the [[Dakota Territory]]), and Holliday went with him.<ref name= holliday2001/>{{rp|101–103}}

In 1877, Holliday returned to Cheyenne, then Denver, and eventually to [[Kansas]], where he visited an aunt. When he left Kansas, he went to [[Breckenridge, Texas]], where he gambled. On July 4, 1877, after a disagreement with gambler Henry Kahn, Holliday beat him repeatedly with his walking stick. Both men were arrested and fined, but Kahn was not finished. Later that same day, he shot and seriously wounded the unarmed Holliday.<ref name=holliday2001/>{{rp|106–109}} On July 7, the ''[[Dallas Weekly Herald]]'' incorrectly reported that Holliday had been killed. His cousin, George Henry Holliday, moved west to help him recover.

Once healed, Holliday relocated to [[Fort Griffin]], Texas. While dealing cards at John Shanssey's saloon, he met [[Big Nose Kate|Mary Katharine "Big Nose Kate" Horony]], a dance hall woman and occasional prostitute. "Tough, stubborn, and fearless", she was educated, but chose to work as a prostitute because she liked her independence.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://thetombstonenews.com/the-infamous-doc-holliday-p1201-84.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903162643/http://thetombstonenews.com/the-infamous-doc-holliday-p1201-84.htm|url-status= dead|title=The Tombstone News| archivedate=September 3, 2017|website=thetombstonenews.com}}</ref> She is the only woman with whom Holliday is known to have had a relationship.<ref name=holliday2001/>{{rp|109}}<ref name=traywick>{{cite web| last1=Traywick| first1=Ben| title=Doc Holliday| url=http://www.historynet.com/doc-holliday| website=HistoryNet| access-date=April 4, 2015| url-status=live| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150511193521/http://www.historynet.com/doc-holliday| archive-date=May 11, 2015| df=mdy-all}}</ref>