This is a story about Doc Holliday - a man known to be quick at firing his gun back in the old west days. He is most famous for the shootout at the OK Corral with the Earp brothers. This book takes place in the years prior to the OK Corral shootout.Doc was very sick with tuberculosis and spent ...
Some of the best scenes in literature:1. The Idiot - mock execution2. Macbeth - Act 5; Scene 5 - Macbeth's world is crashing aroundhim when he hears of his wife's death. He remarks, laconically, "Sheshould have died hereafter," and then delivers what might be the most perfect lines in literature...
I didn't hate this book, but it was a bit of a letdown after The Sparrow. I really enjoy Russell's writing, so I had high hopes for this one. To be honest, though, it comes off like she was writing fanfiction about her own work. (Spoiler Alert) Like "Author's Note: This is a fic where Sofia actu...
Maybe it was the time of year. Maybe it was because my copy of the book was in an advanced stage of acidification with the pages cracking and the glue failing so I feared taking this book with me on the subway (images of high school moments when a dropped binder in a busy hallway could destroy a...
I have changed a few dates and historical details to make the narrative work, but it was my intent that readers looking for fact not be led far astray. As often as possible, I let historical figures write their own dialogue. I would like to mention sources I found especially useful while writing ...
WYATT EARP DID not attend. He considered it a legal formality. The fight happened in broad daylight with hundreds of witnesses. How could there be any dispute about what happened? Wyatt had a tin ear for the vox populi at his best, and he was not at his best in the days that followed the shootout...
Eddie Foy had told Alexander von Angensperg at the end of May. And it was none too easy on men, judging by recent events. One by one, the Jesuits at St. Francis were succumbing to the toil and privation of life on the prairie. Decades of labor in the Kansas wilderness had ...
Yanoguchi was routed through the ISAS channels, discussed and approved. Sofia Mendes was hired by arrangement with her broker, who agreed to the competitive aspect of the proposition. Mendes herself laid out crystalline criteria for how success or failure would be judged. There was a period of ne...