Wyatt: Doc Holliday's Account of an Intimate Friendship

by Dale Chase

Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday are best known for their gunplay at the OK Corral, but there is far more to their story. The remarkable friendship between upright lawman and southern gentleman turned gambler and killer ignites when Doc saves Wyatt's life in Dodge City and escalates into passion as the two move west to Tombstone where lawlessness reigns. As they work toward bringing to justice a band of rustlers terrorizing the area, they are drawn into the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral and are jailed for murder. They are cleared of the charges, but the murder of Morgan Earp sets Wyatt on a vendetta where, with Doc at his side, he turns killer not only to avenge his brother but to rid the region of the outlaw menace. The price is high, however. Now wanted men, Doc and Wyatt are forced to flee Arizona, and it is while on the run that they find their relationship deepening into what is ultimately a tragic love.

Genres: M M Romance, Historical

264 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2012

About the author

Dale Chase has been writing gay male erotica for sixteen years with over 150 stories published in magazines and anthologies, including translation into Italian and German. Her second novel "TAKEDOWN: Taming John Wesley Hardin" will be published by Lethe Press in November 2013. Her first novel "WYATT: Doc Holliday"s Account of an Intimate Friendship" was published in 2012. Two e-collections followed in 2013: "Crack Shot: Western Erotica: and "A Private Business: Victorian Erotica," all from Bold Strokes Books. Dale's novellas "Lonely as God" and "The Man I Know" have recently been published by Wilde City Press. Dale continues to write old western erotica.

Reviews

[Hilcia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grade: B+
I seem to love almost anything that Dale Chase writes, but my goodness when I saw this book queering Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday? I knew, knew it was going to be a winner for me!

Dale has such talent for writing historical westerns (I think I've read all her western short stories), and that talent is in full display in this erotic novel. She weaves the whole history of what happens in Tombstone with her own fictional account of Doc and Wyatt's intimate relationship. There are plenty of erotic scenes (with enough spit and poke to please the crowds), just as there are violent scenes in Tombstone, horseback chases and gunfights between our heroes and the Cowboys. The sexy scenes after the killing and the chasing are always the best ones!

I love these characters and Chase brings them to life in this erotic piece. I love the details she incorporates into her story, the characterization and wonderful western atmosphere. Expect lots of erotic scenes to accompany all the cocky posturing and spare macho dialog. If you like westerns, good historical details, great writing, and erotica, you'll love this one. :D

[Grey Copeland · Rating 2 out of 5]

As a Doc and Wyatt enthusiast, I was excited to read this book, and there were some parts of it I did enjoy. The tragedy of their situation really hit harder in the last few chapters, which I enjoyed, however I feel like most people would've DNFed the book way before that.
I understand the author was attempting to emulate Doc's very strange way of speaking, however that language that makes for wonderful poetic tragic moments doesn't translate well to the more blunt sexual moments between him and Wyatt.
There was a LOT of sex, which I understand it's an erotica novel it's meant to be full of sex, but honestly they were fucking so often that I started skimming over those paragraphs. The sex scenes were barely 3 pages long at the maximum and the language that was used was so jarring and atrocious it brought me back to my Wattpad days, using words like "knob" and "rod" and "gusher" to describe the sex, which is not a good thing. I would've rather had a few really good, well written, emotional, drawn out sex scenes rather than a lot of mediocre ones.
As much as I love this take on Doc and Wyatt as characters, I wish they were both fleshed out more. Some of the time I even wished it was dual POV so I could hear Wyatt's thoughts. I know this is meant to be Doc's version of events, but this relationship does involve both of them. Maybe even just an epilogue with Wyatt's thoughts at the very end would've been lovely.
It felt like Wyatt didn't really care about Doc until the very end, which I understand might've been the intent, but it just felt very jarring for me to see Wyatt be so antagonistic towards Doc for most of the first and second acts. If I hadn't already known about Wyatt and Doc as both historical figures and characters before this book, I would not have been interested in either of their stories.
Overall, this book did tell the historical events very well, and the ending did break my heart, however if I wasn't already so dedicated to Doc and Wyatt I wouldn't have finished this book. The concept was lovely, but the way it was delivered at some points was painful to get through.