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Examples Of Outlaws In History
Rylee Spencer
English 10
Mrs. Spratling
January 3, 2017

Outlaws
There are many outlaws that have gone throughout world history. Doc Holliday, Diamond Field Jack, and Black Jack Ketchum are three well known outlaws that have shaped American History. All three outlaws came from different backgrounds but all leading to a life of fighting and thievery. They all lived to a moderate age for the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s, they either died by being taken to the law and being hung, or by being shot.
Doc Holiday is a figure from the old west, a gunman and a gambler who was part of the legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral. The history center exclaimed, “John Henry “Doc” Holliday was born August 14, 1851 in Griffin Georgia”. His birth was a celebrated
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