I’m your Huckleberry: Doc Holliday’s gun returning to the town he died in (PHOTOS)

By Chris Eger

The derringer is engraved “To Doc from Kate” (Photo: Carla Jean Whitley/Post Independent)
A .41 caliber double barrel 1866 Remington derringer counted as one of John Henry “Doc” Holliday’s last earthly possessions is coming home.
The gun, a gift from his common-law wife, Katherine “Big Nose Kate” Horony-Cummings, is engraved on the grip’s spine “To Doc from Kate” and was among the pauper gunfighter’s belongings when he died in Glenwood Springs, Colorado in 1887, aged 36, of tuberculosis.
As reported by the Post Independent, the local Glenwood Springs Historical Society and Frontier Museum made a move to pick up the gun at auction. The gun, upon the gambler/dentist/gunslinger’s death, had passed to a local bartender as partial payment for the funeral and remained a family heirloom until it was sold in 1968.
(Photo: Carla Jean Whitley/Post Independent)
Surfacing at an auction last year, the society was given a chance to pick it up from new owner Jason Brierley of Vancouver, British Columbia, for $84,000. Officials feel the piece, which will eventually be on display at the former Hotel Greenwood, the historic building in which Holliday died, will draw tourists due to his connection to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Old West lawman Wyatt Earp

Source: Guns.com