Doc / Mary Doria Russell / 394 pages / RUSA Reading List

Doc is the story of Doc Holliday and his relationshlip with the Earp brothers.  Doc was a dentist and would probably have had a fine life as a southern gentlemen if war had not decimated the South and fate had not dealth his mother and himself TB.  Born with a cleft palate and hair lip, his early life was marked by corrective surgeries and his mother's encompassing love and early death.  Told that he must leave Georgia for his health, he gave up plans of a dental practice with his cousin and headed west.  On cannot read Doc without having overwhemling compassion for this Wild West icon and his friends, the Earps.