Colorado historical society doubts authenticity of $84k Doc Holliday gun

By Christen Smith

The Remington derringer alleged to be recovered from the hotel room where Doc Holliday died on Nov. 8, 1887 in Glenwood Springs, Colo. (Photo:Chelsea Self/Glenwood Springs Post Independent)
The Glenwood Springs Historical Society spent $84,000 on a Remington derringer recovered from the hotel room in town where infamous gunslinger and gambler Doc Holliday died in 1887.
At least, that’s what board members thought when they announced the purchase of the artifact earlier this month.
Now, according to a report from the Post Independent published Wednesday, the society isn’t so sure about the gun’s authenticity.
“We all love a good story,” society Executive Director Bill Kight told the newspaper. “Weave a tale of Big Nose Kate gifting a Remington derringer to Doc Holliday that’s next to impossible to prove or disprove.”
E. Dixon Larson, a Utah-based gun dealer, allegedly bought the derringer from relatives of hotel bartender William G. Wells in 1968, Kight said. Through research into Larson’s past, however, it’s been revealed the now-deceased collector boasted about an arsenal of antique firearms once owned by celebrity outlaws long believed forgeries.
The story goes a destitute and dying Holliday stopped in Glenwood Springs, 150 miles west of Denver, in November 1887 to treat his tuberculosis near the

Source: Guns.com