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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton.<br/> <br/>You think you know the story. You don&#8217;t.<br/> <br/>Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it.<br/><br/>Above the ground, power is also about allegiances. A magician can drain his friends' strength to strengthen himself, and can place them between him and danger. The one with the most friends stands to win the territory.<br/><br/>Jesse Fox left his Eastern college education to travel West, where he&#8217;s made some decidedly odd friends, like the physician Chow Lung, who insists that Jesse has a talent for magic. In Tombstone, Jesse meets the tubercular Doc Holliday, whose inner magic is as suppressed as his own, but whose power is enough to attract the sorcerous attention of Wyatt Earp.<br/> <br/>Mildred Benjamin is a young widow making her living as a newspaper typesetter, and--unbeknownst to the other ladies of Tombstone--selling tales of Western derring-do to the magazines back East. Like Jesse, Mildred has episodes of seeing things that can&#8217;t possibly be there.<br/> <br/>When a failed stage holdup results in two dead, Tombstone explodes with speculation about who attempted the robbery. The truth could destroy Earp's plans for wealth and glory, and he'll do anything to bury it. Meanwhile, outlaw leader John Ringo wants the same turf as Earp. Each courts Jesse as an ally, and tries to isolate him by endangering his friends, as they struggle for magical dominance of the territory.<br/><br/>Events are building toward the shootout of which you may have heard. But you haven't heard the whole, secret story until you've read Emma Bull's unique take on an American legend, in which absolutely nothing is as it seems...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantasy set in Tombstone, AZ featuring a number of historical figures including Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers. While I liked things about the main characters and found the book quite atmospheric, I just couldn't like it as much as I wanted to. The plot is pretty sketchy, mostly suggesting a 2 b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13459185">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Mysterious Stranger and the Independent Widow will always almost hook up--but only almost! Chinese men are wise and gnomic! Women can write good too! Wyatt Earp was a dick! Oh, Emma Bull, your time has passed. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton.<br/> <br/>You think you know the story. You don&#8217;t.<br/> <br/>Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it.<br/><br/>Above the ground, power is also about allegiances. A magician can drain his friends' strength to strengthen himself, and can place them between him and danger. The one with the most friends stands to win the territory.<br/><br/>Jesse Fox left his Eastern college education to travel West, where he&#8217;s made some decidedly odd friends, like the physician Chow Lung, who insists that Jesse has a talent for magic. In Tombstone, Jesse meets the tubercular Doc Holliday, whose inner magic is as suppressed as his own, but whose power is enough to attract the sorcerous attention of Wyatt Earp.<br/> <br/>Mildred Benjamin is a young widow making her living as a newspaper typesetter, and--unbeknownst to the other ladies of Tombstone--selling tales of Western derring-do to the magazines back East. Like Jesse, Mildred has episodes of seeing things that can&#8217;t possibly be there.<br/> <br/>When a failed stage holdup results in two dead, Tombstone explodes with speculation about who attempted the robbery. The truth could destroy Earp's plans for wealth and glory, and he'll do anything to bury it. Meanwhile, outlaw leader John Ringo wants the same turf as Earp. Each courts Jesse as an ally, and tries to isolate him by endangering his friends, as they struggle for magical dominance of the territory.<br/><br/>Events are building toward the shootout of which you may have heard. But you haven't heard the whole, secret story until you've read Emma Bull's unique take on an American legend, in which absolutely nothing is as it seems...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a big fan of Emma Bull's books which have various settings. One thing they all share is the magical prose.  Bull is a pretty good stylist and she writes well.  This book is an unconventional take on the events prior to the Gunfight at the OK Corral. The story opens with a stage coach robbery in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29289944">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton.<br/> <br/>You think you know the story. You don&#8217;t.<br/> <br/>Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it.<br/><br/>Above the ground, power is also about allegiances. A magician can drain his friends' strength to strengthen himself, and can place them between him and danger. The one with the most friends stands to win the territory.<br/><br/>Jesse Fox left his Eastern college education to travel West, where he&#8217;s made some decidedly odd friends, like the physician Chow Lung, who insists that Jesse has a talent for magic. In Tombstone, Jesse meets the tubercular Doc Holliday, whose inner magic is as suppressed as his own, but whose power is enough to attract the sorcerous attention of Wyatt Earp.<br/> <br/>Mildred Benjamin is a young widow making her living as a newspaper typesetter, and--unbeknownst to the other ladies of Tombstone--selling tales of Western derring-do to the magazines back East. Like Jesse, Mildred has episodes of seeing things that can&#8217;t possibly be there.<br/> <br/>When a failed stage holdup results in two dead, Tombstone explodes with speculation about who attempted the robbery. The truth could destroy Earp's plans for wealth and glory, and he'll do anything to bury it. Meanwhile, outlaw leader John Ringo wants the same turf as Earp. Each courts Jesse as an ally, and tries to isolate him by endangering his friends, as they struggle for magical dominance of the territory.<br/><br/>Events are building toward the shootout of which you may have heard. But you haven't heard the whole, secret story until you've read Emma Bull's unique take on an American legend, in which absolutely nothing is as it seems...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Territory by Emma Bull falls into the category of a fiction story portraying a real historical event with a twist.  In this case the event is the gunfight at the O.K. Corral and all the happenings that lead up to it and the twist is a couple of fictional characters and the fact that Wyatt Earp was a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19408641">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton.<br/> <br/>You think you know the story. You don&#8217;t.<br/> <br/>Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it.<br/><br/>Above the ground, power is also about allegiances. A magician can drain his friends' strength to strengthen himself, and can place them between him and danger. The one with the most friends stands to win the territory.<br/><br/>Jesse Fox left his Eastern college education to travel West, where he&#8217;s made some decidedly odd friends, like the physician Chow Lung, who insists that Jesse has a talent for magic. In Tombstone, Jesse meets the tubercular Doc Holliday, whose inner magic is as suppressed as his own, but whose power is enough to attract the sorcerous attention of Wyatt Earp.<br/> <br/>Mildred Benjamin is a young widow making her living as a newspaper typesetter, and--unbeknownst to the other ladies of Tombstone--selling tales of Western derring-do to the magazines back East. Like Jesse, Mildred has episodes of seeing things that can&#8217;t possibly be there.<br/> <br/>When a failed stage holdup results in two dead, Tombstone explodes with speculation about who attempted the robbery. The truth could destroy Earp's plans for wealth and glory, and he'll do anything to bury it. Meanwhile, outlaw leader John Ringo wants the same turf as Earp. Each courts Jesse as an ally, and tries to isolate him by endangering his friends, as they struggle for magical dominance of the territory.<br/><br/>Events are building toward the shootout of which you may have heard. But you haven't heard the whole, secret story until you've read Emma Bull's unique take on an American legend, in which absolutely nothing is as it seems...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I keep trying to quantify what I liked about this book and failing. The re-characterization of the familiar names were believable and interesting in the main. The original characters weren't terribly original but they were enjoyable. The dialogue may have been the selling point; I thought it seemed ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39515849">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<p><em>Territory </em>retells the story of the 1881 shootout at Tombstone's O.K. Corral, but no writer has yet approached the event with the same compelling mix of history and fantasy as Emma Bull. She blends historical and fictional characters to great effect; although the story is packed with suspense, romanc...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45463860">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Territory told an unusual story.  How many historical fantasies are set in the Old West?  That alone made it interesting.  I liked the characterization and was into the story, although I thought the novel's pacing could have been better.  I even learned a bit about history.  I guess I thought that O...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71757964">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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