"Icons never die."

This assertion — the first sentence in Brothers of the Gun — aptly sets the stage for author and historian Mark Lee Gardner's newest book: a dual biography of notorious Old West figures Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.

The book, which will be released Tuesday, follows the pair everywhere from to Dodge City, Kan., to Tombstone, Ariz., with a bloody interlude in Las Vegas, N.M. — much to the chagrin of the town and the press at the time. Gardner plans to hold a book signing at the Barnes & Noble at the Santa Fe Place Mall on Nov. 15.

Earp was born in Illinois in 1848. Both he and Holliday — a dentist-turned-gambler born in Georgia in 1851 — wore many additional hats, though they were immortalized as legendary gunslingers on Oct. 26, 1881 at the O.K. Corral, where a lawma

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