Did not finish this one. Research was good but stylistically it is all over the map. Parts sound more like biography, and parts read like the historical fiction it is, and this is within one section of one chapter. There is no sense of time. The writing style suggests that it is told fairly straight...
I have always been "interested" why the story of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp and the OK corral has survived through history...Although I have never been interested in it enough to read history books on it....I was hoping if I read fiction, it may be able to keep me interested to figure it out. The stor...
Summer of 1878. The much-too-famous thirty seconds of shooting at the O.K. Corral was three years in the future. Doc Holliday was in Dodge City, Kansas. It was here that he cemented his friendship with the Earp brothers---Wyatt, Morgan, and James. By this time, John Henry "Doc" Holliday was already...
"That was the fork in the road. That was when everything might have changed."This book might be better named as Doc, the early years, because if you are expecting Doc's story to take you on to Tombstone and the infamous shootout at the OK Corral you are going to be sorely disappointed. That said, th...
I really enjoyed this one, and found all of the characters intriguing in their own right. Telling the story of how Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday met in Dodge City, Kansas, this is an insightful novel of the American West, morality, coping with illness and loss, and a story that is very different than ...
I had the distinct pleasure of hearing Ms. Russell speak last October at the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association's trade show. She freely admitted that she had developed a crush on John Henry Holliday and gave many reasons for why she did so. After reading Doc, one understands exactly wh...
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