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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780312857356 ISBN: 0312857357 Label: Tor Books Manufacturer: Tor Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: July 10, 2007 Publisher: Tor Books Release Date: July 10, 2007 Studio: Tor Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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... Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Audio Book Review Very Satisfying ListenI was doing some driving the other day and ended up listening to this book for a very longish trip and in fact I sat in the driveway for half an hour so I could finish it. The book is about 13 hours and 45 minutes long. It also has a cliff hanger ending and a sequel is in the works. Territory narrated by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading-- Kramer reading the male point of view chapters and Reading the female point of view chapters. Kramer does an excellent job voicing the male characters, ... Read More Rating: - My first book by Bull; but not the lastWhat a delight to be in the hands of a master storyteller! Characters are engaging and the book does not get in the way of the story, but pulls you in. Off now to buy everything else she has ever written. LATER: Well, this will teach me to write a review before I've finished the book. I still very much like "Territory", but the voice of the book is more like a voice I am used to reading in Young Adult fiction, and in some places it does get a little silly. The level of attention, for example, ... Read More Rating:  - Hoodoo in the old WestTerritory is the first book by Emma Bull that I've read, and it won't be the last. I am glad that fantasy writers like her exist to write succinct, satisfying, stand-alone novels. Territory is original and subtle, featuring memorable characters, both fictional and historical, and careful plotting. Bull impressively balances the historical elements with the fantasy elements. She provides the perfect amount to detail to recreate late 19th century Tombstone and flavors it with a dab of magic and the ... Read More Rating: - Delightful historical fantasy, but incompleteEmma Bull is one of those writers about whom my main complaint is that they don't write enough. Her last novel, Freedom and Necessity (with Stephen Brust) appeared fully a decade ago. So I was delighted to see Territory on bookstore shelves this summer. This is a fantasy set in the Old West, indeed, in Tombstone, Arizona, in 1880, in the months leading up to the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Bull focuses on three characters. Mildred Benjamin is a young widow making an independent life for herself as a ... Read More Rating: - Creative Twist on History"Emma Bull is really good." - Neil Gaiman This quote (printed on the front cover) was enough for me, some years ago when I first discovered Emma Bull's books. I'm SO GLAD to see her publishing again. I've read all her previous books and have been waiting for a while in the hopes that she'd bring something new out. She does not disappoint! This book adds a really interesting possible background to the Wyatt Earp/Doc Holliday story. For the first time in several years, I was really forced ... Read More 
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