Phony Photograph of Doc Holliday

Some have suggested this is Doc's last photograph, saying it was taken in 1887, but Doc was extremely ill by that time and was bedridden for much of that year. Doc himself testified in 1884 that by then he weighed only 122 pounds. While he was good looking in his younger days, by this point he was probably more of a walking skeleton. In his obituary the Ute Chief of November 12, 1887 reported, "From the effects of the disease, from which he suffered probably half his life, Holliday, at the time of his death, looked like a man well advanced in years, for his hair was silver and his form emaciated and bent, but he was only thirty-six years old." Also, this could not be a younger picture of Doc because of the receding hairline. In addition, this man doesn't look like Doc any of the known photographs of him.
 

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