Doc Holliday wasn't just incidentally a dentist-- he was a highly educated and cosmopolitan dentist by profession, until he had to stop practicing because he had tuberculosis. He moved out West because his doctor told him the dry air would be good for his lungs. He was a pretty good gambler, and in at least one instance he was involved in a gambling dispute where he ended up shooting a dude and killing him. His whole reputation as a "gambler you don't mess with" was based on this one chance incident.

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eta: I dodn't know about the "barbed wire phone lines" ..big if true. I'd think maybe they were telegraph lines though?

--nope, just Googled and apparently a real thing

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From a FOAF, guy had a dog that was precient.  This dog could predict when the phone was going to ring, before the phone would ring.  Not always, but often enough to be more than a coincidence.  It happened mostly during bad weather, rain, etc.  Turns out this guy kept his dog on a lead at all times in the yard and the lead was clipped to an overhead line so the dog could travel along the side of the house.

Well, the mystery was solved when they realized that the ring signal on regular landlines is 48 volts.  That's why your landline will still work during a power outage, it's separately powered.  The dog was getting the "signal" before the phone would ring through the lead and his collar! Answer the damn phooooonnnnnE!!!!!!!