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Title	:	Territory
Author	:	Emma Bull
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 318 pages
Published	:	July 10th 2007 by Tor Books
Categories	:	Fantasy. Westerns. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Historical Fantasy. Science Fiction. Alternate History

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Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton.
 
You think you know the story. You don't.
 
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.

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.

Jesse Fox left his Eastern college education to travel West, where he'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.
 
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't possibly be there.
 
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.

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...

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Original Title:	Territory
ISBN:	0312857357 (ISBN13: 9780312857356)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Tombstone, Arizona,1881(United States)
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2008), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (2008)

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This book has Doc Holliday in it. That alone is worth the price of admission!

The acknowledgements in the hardcover edition veer cryptically from second person into first person, and an ill-placed adjective in the publisher's dust jacket summary gives too much of the plot away, but otherwise, Wow! Emma Bull writes with the authenticity of Elmer Kelton, the pacing of Loren Estleman, and the empathy of Jane Austen. This is not just a "horse opera" with which to pass the time; it's also a character study and a penetrating look at nineteenth-century Tombstone, Arizona, in the

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 which 2 men are killed. The robbers are 4 men -- one of whom is secretly Morgan Earp -- Wyatt Earp's brother. Wyatt Earp, who is a lynchpin of the story, turns out to be a black sorcerer, who is using

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 book deal rather than a completed story arc. I also could've done without the author's portrayal of the Chinese American characters. This ranges from having them speak in a version of pigeon English to

If I hadn't read this recommendation from a blogger I trust, I'd surely have scoffed at the premise. Set in Tombstone, Arizona, when the Earps and Clantons are inexorably heading toward that famous showdown at the OK Corral, Emma Bull tosses in some sorcery into the mix as an underlying source of tension. Told from the point of view of typesetter Mildred Benjamin and drifter Jesse Fox, this story puts a new twist on the Western genre. As odd as the combination of Western and magic sounds, Bull

This sounded like it would be a kind of "Harry Potter meets the wild west" and I thought that would be an interesting approach to magic. It turned out to be both more and less than I expected.There was magic, but it was very understated as a part of the story. In fact, you aren't quite sure if magic is happening or not for a good part of the book. The way the author, Emma Bull works the magic in is very, VERY subtle and she almost seems to want the reader to guess what the heck is going on in

A solidly good read.I mostly read contemporary- or future-based fiction, so this fantasy novel of the Wild West was unusual for me. But I met and heard Emma Bull at a science fiction convention a few years ago and have wanted to read her work ever since. She's an excellent writer.The timing in the book felt a little odd. A quarter of the way into the book I still felt like the main conflict driving the story hadn't been introduced. (As a matter of fact I re-read the back cover about then and it