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Title	:	Territory
Author	:	Emma Bull
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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

Territory

Emma Bull

Hardcover | Pages: 318 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 1884 Users | 300 Reviews

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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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Ratings: 3.76 From 1884 Users | 300 Reviews

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I am simultaneously angry with myself and thrilled that I didn't discover Emma Bull before now. On the one hand, I missed out on years of rereading her books. On the other hand, I get to read them now for the first time. "Territory" takes place in Tombstone, Arizona, and follows several characters through the period leading up towards the famous shoot-out, with an undercurrent of magic tossed in as well. The historical characters are nicely developed and made me rush to Wikipedia to see how well

Emma Bulls weaves an enchanting fantasy story mixed in with some recognizable figures of the American Frontier.I rarely read Weird/Historical Westerns (if at all) but the genre is part of the r/Fantasy 2016 Book Bingo Challenge and this novel came well-recommended, so I trusted the other readers opinions and it paid off in spades. It's nice to step out of my comfort zone and actually discover a good book.The beginning grabbed my attention even if little is laid out for the reader and things get

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

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

There's a lot to like in this, I think: the characters are mostly well-drawn, the magic is subtle and interesting, the writing carries Emma Bull's usual warm elegance. But I found myself meticulously overlooking a certain carelessness of storytelling and struggling particularly hard at times to slot Bull's version of the Earps into what I know of them. All that work made the book a lot less enjoyable to read.Bull picks up the thread of her story, weaves an engaging yarn, and then

2 1/2Awhile back I had mentioned in a group that I liked things like alt-history with magic - and this book offers a nice combination of secret history with weird west. I've always quite liked the idea of the wild west, though I haven't read much about it, and this book was recommended to me.What I'll say is that while it was ok, I could've lived without having read it and still been happy.Let's see - so, it's about Tombstone in 1881, and everyone knows some variation of the story. Admittedly,

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