John Henry Holliday steps off the train at Atlanta's Union Station,
fresh out of the Pennsylvania Dental College, and into Mattie's
arms. But the storybook romance between the young dentist and his
cousin is cut short by disease and family strife. Some close
relatives are grousing at the couple to break off their
relationship, but they are unwilling to bow to family pressures.
However his financial reverses and physical health conspire to make
that happen. John Henry is diagnosed with tuberculosis and doctors
suggest a dryer climate in the West. Mattie pleads to go with him
but John Henry says no and travels to Dallas alone. The dry climate
stabilizes his condition, but he is unable to make a living from
his dental practice. Dispirited and alone he is eventually
attracted to saloon life where he takes a new name and calling --
Doc Holliday -- frontier gambler. Kate Elder, a spunky little
saloon girl, sets her sights on Doc. And when trouble comes at Ft.
Griffin and a noose is about to be tied around Doc's neck Kate
executes a daring escape plan and the two ride north, through
Indian territory, to Dodge City, Kansas. Doc sets up a dental
practice in the cattle town and becomes acquainted with the likes
of Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Luke Short and Eddie Foy. When a wild
bunch of drunken cowboy's corner Wyatt Earp Doc hurries to his
rescue with a 38 in one hand and a 44 in the other. That moment was
the beginning of a lifelong friendship. Wyatt Earp would never
forget that day at Dodge City when Doc Holliday using courage and
grit saved his life. Doc's tenuous relationship with Kate dragged
along simply because he was beholden to her for saving him from the
hangman's noose at Ft. Griffin. Their tumultuous relationship
continued though as they follow the migration of the Dodge City
crowd south to Tombstone, Arizona. A corrupt political ring backs
the cowboy-outlaw faction with the complicity of the Cochise County
Sheriff. Doc has friends in both camps, but joins Wyatt and his
brothers on the side of law and order, where his courage and
loyalty are once again tested, when he stands with the Earps, in
the shootout, at the Ok Corral. Doc survives the gunfight, but
death from tuberculosis is never far away. Mattie, desperate in her
loneliness, writes that she had become a nun, and with those vows
has taken a new name -- Sister Mary Melanie. Doc is stung by the
news, but he is quick to realize that it was his own neglect that
had placed Mattie in the nunnery. He is fully aware that his days
are numbered, but he never wavers in his love for the girl back
home. Following Doc's death Wyatt Earp spoke of his friend and
said, 'Doc was the most skillful gambler and the speediest,
deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew.'
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