A fictional version of the life of Kate Elder, a courageous, independent woman who survived alone on the frontier, from St. Louis to the OK Corral, and eventually became Doc Holliday's mistress

Doc Holliday's Woman

Literature & Fiction

Coleman, Jane Candia

United States

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

From entertaining men in a Dodge City saloon run by Wyatt Earp's sister-in-law, to engineering a jailbreak for Doc Holiday, Kate Elder, an orphan, learns how to live on her own and control her own destiny, in a close-to-life model of the American West. Reprint.

Genre Fiction

An acclaimed collection of short stories about survival, hope and courage on the American Frontier. From a haunting story of the night Billy the Kid died, to the dramatic account of a breathtaking horse race. This grouping of Western adventures includes stories that won the prestigious Spur Award which is given annually for distinguished writing about the American West: "Lou" and "Are You Coming Back, Phin Montana?". These tales reveal the passion and fortitude of their characters, and also the power of a wonderful writer.

Moving On

Sagebrush Large Print

The O'Keefe Empire

Doc Holliday's Gone: A Western Duo

Thorndike Pr

Presents nineteen tales of the American frontier and today's Southwest, in stories of love, loss, hope, and redemption

Moving on: Stories of the West (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

G.K.Hall & Co.

Joanna O'Keefe journeys to New Mexico to meet up with her husband at the Circle MC, but when she arrives she finds her husband has been murdered, and it is up to Joanna to drive the cattle across the Mojave Desert to San Diego.

The O'Keefe Empire: A Western Story (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

Borderlands: Western Stories (G K Hall Large Print Western Series)

An excerpt from Stories from Mesa Country:"They are coming back from the burial ground. I can see them walking, two abreast, along the narrow track by the wash. Tom has his head down, his hands in the pockets of his black suit. Beside him, Reverend Sherman is talking, waving his arms, trying, I'd guess, to comfort. Behind them come Enid and Faith, square shapes in best blue dresses, and then Seth and Arch, leggy as colts, uncomfortable in Sunday suits, in the shadow of tragedy. Now a space, long seconds passing before I see Luisa. She is alone, walking slowly. She is crying. I know that, even from this distance, from my bed beside the window. She wipes her eyes on her apron. Her shoulders heave. She has been crying for three days."I wish I could shout so they could hear me. I wish the Reverend would go to her, assure her of her place in heaven and in our house. I wish one of them, Tom or the children, would take her by the arm, lead her home. Instead they act as if she is not there at all, perhaps thinking that if they ignore her she will vanish and with her this house, these three days, the newly turned earth in the far field."Well, they are wrong. None of it will disappear. We'll live with it, tiptoe around it, make excuses and blame each other. And who is to blame? Tom, for coming here to homestead at the foot of the red rock mountains? For begetting children upon my body? Sons to inherit, daughters to marry? Or I, in my -- not innocence, that's not the word I want -- my cocoon, my shroud of womanhood that brought me here, a continent away from home to wifehood, motherhood, acceptance of death as a part of life? Birth and death are what I see and take for granted. Life comes and goes with the seasons, with the years. There is a violence in this soil, in the people who labor on it. Perhaps it is only the truth of the earth, and one accepts it or goes down in defeat."

Stories from Mesa Country

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Doc Holliday's Woman

Doc Holliday's Woman

Moving On

The O'Keefe Empire

Doc Holliday's Gone: A Western Duo

Doc Holliday's Gone: A Western Duo

Moving on: Stories of the West (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

The O'Keefe Empire: A Western Story (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

Borderlands: Western Stories (G K Hall Large Print Western Series)

Stories from Mesa Country