Doc Holliday was thirty-six when he found out he had the same incurable tuberculosis that took his mother's life--and one year to live. The doomed Holliday quickly plunged himself into the hard-drinking, violent world of the gunslinger. He traveled from town to town and dared the most brutal men of the era to kill him before the disease could, going on to take part in such legendary escapades as the showdown at the OK corral.
Randy Lee Eickhoff has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities for his scholarship. he is the author of The Raid and The Feast, both translations of portions of the Ulster Cycle, Ireland's national epic. Randy Lee Eickoff lives in El Paso, Texas.