Question: Which Wild West figure, famous for his role at the O.K. Corral gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona, was a Georgia native?
Answer: Doc Holliday. A noted gambler and gunman of the Old West, John Henry “Doc” Holliday was born on August 14, 1851, in Griffin, in Pike County, Georgia (now part of Spalding County). Following a chronic pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis, he headed west in 1873 for a drier climate.