Doc   -  Mary Doria Russell

  Historical Fiction

Doc Holiday was a southern gentleman, a dentist, and a gambler and as the opening line in the book says," he began to die when he was twenty-one."  He not only lived during a hard time out west, he also was suffering from tuberculosis.  A very slow death, it took 15 years before the disease took his life.  

A slow moving book but Ms. Russell paints a very vivid picture of Dodge City, the Earp brothers, the brothels, and the cowboys.