There is the Western myth as portrayed in movies, books, song etc. and then there is the western history.
The myth is much more pleasant and is part of American culture.
The reality is often extraordinarily unpleasant. Holliday was a racist, murderous hoodlum who didn't live much past his mid 30s.
I prefer the fiction of Val Kilmer in Tombstone.
i had forgotten about holliday's racism--didn't he kill some unarmed black union soldiers at a swimming hole?
i like both val's and kirk's interpretations. they both did wonderful jobs. i saw "gunfight" in the theater when it came out in the early '50's--i was a kid, and it had tremendous power.