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Another Mary Doria Russell novel--this one in the same vein as her previous historical fiction novel, Doc. Thoroughly enjoyed her fleshing-out of the characters who filled the news in the late 1800s from the frontier mining town of Tombstone, Arizona: the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, as well as some of those rowdy, horse-stealing "Cow Boy" outlaws. I enjoyed this historical novel; Russell is a very good writer--I've read almost every book she's written.
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Sometimes people argue that the story of the O.K. Corral is played out, but books like Russell's point out why it's so important to return to them - we have a sense of familiarity with it, but that doesn't mean we actually understand it. While Russell freely acknowledges that some will find dispute with her version of Tombstone and its inhabitants in this period, I find it the sort of messy, conflicted, ideologically spun story that forces us to reconsider what we think we know as fact. She sets
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