Also, Hollywood and the movies have done a great disservice. Check out the actual death rates from shooting in towns such as Virginia City, MT; Abilene; Wichita; Ellison; El Paso; Tombstone and others.
That's a little unfair to Hollywood. The disservice was already done, by the dime novels that were sold right at the same time, long before movies existed. I will agree that the movies made it worse.