Doc Holliday in Film and Literature

<p> The legend of Doc Holliday is now well past a century old. While his time on earth was brief troubled and filled with pain his legend took wings and flew. Beginning with his part in the now famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral Denver newspapers first told his story in the late 19th century. They followed by words of Wyatt Earp grasped the glimmer of his tale. So enamored was the public that by 1939 he was a literary icon and his character had appeared in eight films. Historians authors screenwriters and eventually television refined the legend which reached its apex perhaps with the 1993 film <I>Tombstone</I>. Doc Holliday's image has neither dimmed nor wavered in the 21st century. Broadway country music and art join with literature and film to continue his mystique as the personification of a surviving legend of the U.S. West.</p>