Doc Holliday's Gun Returns To Colorado

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4) - A piece of American Old West history is back in Colorado.

A pistol belonging to famous gunslinger Doc Holliday is now at the Frontier Historical Museum in Glenwood Springs, according to the Post Independent.

(credit: Carla Jean Whitley/Post Independent)

The derringer pistol is believed to have been taken from a room in a hotel in Glenwood Springs where Holliday died in 1887. It was a gift from his wife and has engraving on the handle.

(credit: Chelsea Self/Post Independent)

The gun has changed hands many times since Holliday's death.

The Glenwood Springs Historical Society purchased the gun from a man in Canada for $84,000.

Doc Holliday (credit: Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association)

LINK: Glenwood Springs Historical Society

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