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BOOK SIGNINGS
It's time for Old Pearce Heritage Days!
Shop locally for the holidays and what could be more local than Old Pearce Heritage Days?
Join the fun in old Pearce November 25 and 26, the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving, in the most authentic of western settings, the ghost town of Pearce, Cochise County , Arizona . Festival hours are 9AM to 5PM daily. Admission and parking are free! Musical entertainment both days!
Local author, historians, S.M. Ballard and Phyllis de la Garza will be inside the Old Store to autograph their books and engage shoppers in discussion on anything related to Arizona history.
Also on hand to entertain, Saturday only, are Pearce's own dance troupe, those gorgeous gals decked out in period costumes and tripping the light fantastic for your viewing pleasure, The Shady Ladies of Cochise County and Company!
Blacksmith Shop demonstrations, an antique engine display, quilt gallery and for the first time, a showing of paintings from Pearce's own first lady of oils, Effie Anderson Smith, all add interest and ambience to a Festival sure to please!
For more information call 520-826-3588 or email saveoldpearce@yahoo.com
Directions:
From I-10, take Highway 191 south toward Bisbee. Turn right at Mile Marker 49 and Ghost Town Trail. Go one mile!
See you there!
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THE
NEWEST RELEASES
by S. M. Ballard
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 MURDER in Pearce
An Arizona Territory Mystery
by S. M. Ballard
NOW AVAILABLE!
Intrigue, mystery, murder, 1905, Pearce, Arizona Territory.
Micah Rogers is summoned to the gold rush boomtown of Pearce by a friend in desperate need of help. Indeed, the situation is one of life or death and involves a mysterious object men have killed to possess. This object found its way from Cuba to Arizona Territory among the belongings of a former member of the United States Volunteer Cavalry during the Spanish-American War, and by possessing it, the soldier has placed a bull's-eye firmly on his back.
No sooner does Micah Rogers set foot on the bustling Pearce streets than he is ambushed by men unknown and left to perish in the unforgiving desert. His discovery of a corpse tossed down a coyote hole is only the beginning of what lies ahead for the former Rough Rider/lawman.
Rogers' dangerous quest to prevent the murder of a friend while ferreting out what power lies behind the hunt to capture the unknown prize forces him to trust again in his own judgment, and in the judgment of another on the same quest.
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 the RAIDER
by S. M. Ballard
published by Goose Flats Publishing
Blue Moon division
NOW AVAILABLE!
The American Civil War, 1861 - 1865.
In an era fraught with upheaval and uncertainty, two boys from vastly diverse backgrounds learn they are not so different after all.
Vermonter, fourteen year old Martin Rogers, descended from the famous soldier and Indian fighter, Major Robert Rogers, dreams of life away from the family farm and yearns for the adventures of which he has only read of in books. Dreams become reality when he stumbles upon a wounded Confederate corporal, Shelby Kingdom. For Marty, life changes forever and growing up is forced upon him. It is a challenge he accepts, if not wholeheartedly, with courage and determination.
Texan, Shelby Kingdom, is sixteen years old and already a veteran of several crucial civil war battles. His incarceration as a prisoner of war in one of the North's most heinous prison camps leaves him scarred and ready to serve the Confederacy in any way possible. In this, his last assignment, he will go against all odds to prove himself a worthy son of the South.
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|  Doc Holliday's Dilemma
by S. M. Ballard
Short story now available for Kindle at Amazon.com
The story, Doc Holliday's Dilemma, offers insight into the good doctor and focuses on the difficult life choices he's forced to make. Dilemma coincided with the release of the second in Susan's Doc Holliday trilogy of novels, Holliday in Tombstone.
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 KATE
by S. M. Ballard
(The first book published by Goose Flats Publishing
- Blue Moon division)
NOW AVAILABLE!
Sexy, savvy, smart, in love with one man yet drawn to another, Hungarian
born blue blood Mary Katherine Haroney, aka Kate Elder, lives life
on the edge. And the edge in Tombstone , Arizona Territory, circa
1880, is a dangerous place indeed.
Kate's love, dentist/gambler, John Henry "Doc" Holliday,
is a hairsbreadth from death. With his days numbered due to the
consumption killing him, Doc seeks to make sense of a life too quickly
ebbing away, his drinking and volatile behavior driving Kate into
another man's arms. The other man is Holliday's despised nemesis,
gunman and Cowboy, Johnny Ringo.
Yet who really stands in the way of Kate's life with Doc Holliday?
Is it her paramour, Ringo, or is it perhaps Doc's closest friend,
her fiercest rival for Holliday's devotion, Wyatt Earp?
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BORROWED
TIME
by S. M. Ballard
(Book 1 of S.M. Ballard's Doc Holliday Trilogy)
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the days before they became legends, John Henry "Doc"
Holliday, a Georgia dentist turned gambler whose constant
companion is the specter of early death, and Wyatt Earp,
a rough hewn frontier lawman saddled with a taciturn nature and
an iron clad sense of justice, forge an unlikely alliance to hunt
down the brutal killers of a young Dodge City woman.
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HOLLIDAY
IN TOMBSTONE
by S. M. Ballard
(Book 2 of S.M. Ballard's Doc Holliday Trilogy)
 John
Henry "Doc" Holliday and Wyatt Earp embark
on what will be the most tumultuous years of their lives, lives
spent in and around "The Town Too Tough to Die", Tombstone,
Arizona Territory. Together they face life and death situations,
meet new demands and make life altering decisions. Doc Holliday,
dentist, gambler and lawman will face these challenges with typical
Holliday aplomb. It will be the obstacles he faces in his personal
life that will try his very soul.
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 DEATH
TAKES A HOLLIDAY
by S. M. Ballard
(The final book of S.M. Ballard's Doc Holliday
Trilogy)
NOW AVAILABLE! The final installment of S. M.
Ballard's Doc Holliday trilogy, DEATH TAKES A HOLLIDAY
When John Henry "Doc" Holliday died at age thirty-six in Glenwood
Springs, Colorado, he left behind more than a reputation. He left
a son. Would the boy live down the lies or live up to the legend?
Death Takes a Holliday follows Henry McKey Holliday's transition
from unsure youth to confident, accomplished adult in the turbulent
Arizona Territory of the waning years of the 19th Century.
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