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.
It was either soldiers or kids, difficult to know that kind of history. There was also another murder or two that pushed him "West."