S. M. Ballard
Western Author
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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 traces 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. Henry is a young man locked in an ongoing quest for self and past while making his future in a changing world.
At nineteen, Henry enlists in the First United States Volunteer Cavalry landing in Cuba as a member of the legendary Rough Riders. He counts among his contemporaries future president Theodore Roosevelt, General Leonard Wood, William Owen "Buckey" O'Neill, and novelist/war correspondent, Stephen Crane.
In Cuba Henry is reunited with acquaintances of his father's, Sherman McMasters and Tombstone surgeon George Goodfellow, as well as a man from Henry's past he does not remember, but will be unable to forget, Sergeant Major Hayworth McClean of the 10th Cavalry.
Henry returns home to Arizona recovering from wounds and mourning the death of childhood friend, Cooper Street. A powerful will and the love of Cooper's former fiancée, Creek Johnson's daughter Victoria, helps Henry turn his life around.
Life is good. Henry is married with a family, but a violent incident changes everything. Rustlers murder three McKey cowboys, including Texas Jack Vermillion.
Devastated by the loss, Henry turns to the county sheriff in his quest for justice, but the lawman can do little. Henry then looks to the Arizona Rangers, knowing their authority crosses boundaries and their tenacity, even so early in their forming, is legendary.
With his life in chaos, Henry McKey Holliday's sense of balance is reborn with the appearance of trusted friend, Hayworth McClean. The future is out there, waiting. What it holds is up to him. As Doc Holliday's son, will he live up to the myth or become a legend unto himself?
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BOOKS
by S. M. Ballard |
BORROWED
TIME
by S. M. Ballard
(Part 1 of the 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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TIME
"Susan Ballard takes the reader to
a time of Doc Holliday's life before Tombstone, a time when the
famous dentist meets his long time friend, Wyatt Earp, and a time
when the course of Doc's life is as if on loan. Susan's incredible
way with words captivates the reader with her very first paragraph
as she takes them on a western journey through vivid scenic descriptions
and riveting dialogue bringing to life the man who truly did live
on borrowed time." ~ Tombstone Times - June 2007
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the
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ALSO AVAILABLE
BY S. M. BALLARD
 "HOLLIDAY
IN TOMBSTONE"
Doc Holliday's saga continues.
(Part 2 of the Doc Holliday Trilogy) |
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John Henry "Doc" Holliday, Georgia
gentleman, dentist turned gambler, a consumptive whose days are
numbered, follows his friend, Wyatt Earp to the boomtown
of Tombstone, Arizona Territory. From the moment Holliday
sets foot on the dusty Tombstone streets, his path as a lawman
is set. Time and again he risks life and safety for his friends
and for justice, taking on the likes of Curly Bill Brocious
and Johnny Ringo, leaders of a gang of ruffians known collectively
as "the Cowboys."
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IN TOMBSTONE
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NOW
AVAILABLE!
DEATH TAKES A HOLLIDAY
by S. M. Ballard
(The final installment of the Doc Holliday Trilogy)
 Death
Takes a Holliday traces 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. Henry
is a young man locked in an ongoing quest for self and past while
making his future in a changing world.
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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"DEATH TAKES A HOLLIDAY"
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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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"KATE"
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