The story of the Earp Brothers and Doc Holliday and the events leading up to the street fight in Tombstone have inspired enough fiction and nonfiction to fill small libraries. That gives Mary Doria Russell’s Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral quite a bit of competition for the un-official title of the best, but she earns it. Russell, whose 2011 novel Doc is hands-down the best fiction written about the dentist-turned-gunfighter (Victoria Wilcox’s trilogy not excepted), has written an e


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