Doc Holliday Would Feel at Home in Modern America

Now that states like North Carolina are legalizing carrying firearms into bars, it is only a matter of time before the drunken saloon gunfight again becomes a staple of American life. Blood seeping through the floorboards of a bar is such a romantic image in sepia hindsight to Republican lawmakers they neglect to imagine what it will look like in full color photography.

One of the most famous saloon gunfights of the Old West was between Levi Richardson and Frank "Cock-eyed" Loving in Dodge City's Longbranch Saloon on April 5, 1879.