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Ahhh. This book is an example of one of my favorite guilty pleasures on my reading list: alternate histories of well-known events with Mike Resnick's brand of humor mixed in. Heck, this one even manages to mix magic with steampunk inventions.

Resnick takes us back to Tombstone Arizona in the 1880s. He captures the legend of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the gunfight at (or near) the O.K. Corral. The legend of these famous characters and events - not necessarily the actual facts. After all, Thomas Edison and Ned Buntline had no influence on the actual events with clever inventions. Heck, in our history, they were nowhere near Arizona. But the U.S. government, whose borders in this alternate world stop at the Mississippi River due to powerful Native American magic, has asked Edison to travel to the West to find a way for science to triumph over magic.

The characters are not as deeply drawn as in other tellings of this tale, but they're deep enough for Resnick's purposes here. Just sit back and enjoy this amusing, yet far-fetched tale of the Old West.