In Derek Rush’s 1997 colored-pencil drawing Doc’s Business, southern born Doc Holliday flashes a tool of the gunfighter trade in front of one of his usual workplaces — a saloon. The West’s most famous dentist, born John Henry Holliday, let his practice slide in Dodge City in 1878 and devoted himself to gambling.
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