
The Doctor and the Rough Rider
Kindle Edition
Pyr · Ebook · December 4, 2012
It’s August 19, 1884.
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- Who it’s for
- A collision of frontier history, supernatural menace, and gunfighter legend gives this Western its lively charge.
- Genres
- Westerns, Steampunk, Action & Adventure
- Published
- Pyr, December 4, 2012
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It’s August 19, 1884. The consumptive Doc Holliday is preparing to await his end in a sanitarium in Leadville, Colorado, when the medicine man Geronimo enlists him on a mission. The time the great chief has predicted has come, the one white man with whom he’s willing to treat has crossed the Mississippi and is heading to Tombstone—a young man named Theodore Roosevelt.
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The various tribes know that Geronimo is willing to end the spell that has kept the United States from expanding west of the Mississippi. In response, they have created a huge, monstrous medicine man named War Bonnet, whose function is to kill Roosevelt and Geronimo and keep the United States east of the river forever. And War Bonnet has enlisted the master shootist John Wesley Hardin. So the battle lines are drawn: Roosevelt and Geronimo against the most powerful of the medicine men, a supernatural creature that seemingly nothing can harm; and Holliday against the man with more credited kills than any gunfighter in history. It does not promise to be a tranquil summer.
Frontier, Uncanny
A collision of frontier history, supernatural menace, and gunfighter legend gives this Western its lively charge.
Come here for
- A supernatural Western where Geronimo’s mission tangles with Theodore Roosevelt’s arrival
- Gunfighter showdowns with history bent toward the fantastic
Expect
- Doc Holliday and John Wesley Hardin facing off amid larger-than-life stakes
- A briskly strange mix of historical figures and medicine-man magic
Where it sits
| Steampunk | 59% |
|---|---|
| Westerns | 48% |
| Action & Adventure | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historical Fantasy
- Steampunk
- Westerns
- Authors
- Mike Resnick
- Publisher
- Pyr
- Published
- December 4, 2012
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Historical Fantasy