Tumbleweed

I found this book to be more of a history lesson than a book to enjoy reading. It was hard after seeing movies about the Earp's to read a book about them. I found I was comparing what I had seen in the movies to what I was reading. I think any one with an interest in the Earp's would like this book.......more

I love all of Jane Coleman's novels with history behind them. This one actually based on Allie Earp's actual journals with some artistic liberty. A good read since my family lives in Arizona now I know those areas......more

Great start!! Love the heroine, Allie. In the beginning she is a young girl with a lot of sass. She curses, declares herself a heathen, and if you are a man, don't dare lay a hand on her arse! She becomes an orphan and learns to look after herself. She meets Verge Earp, brother to the famous Wyatt a......more

Coleman overcame my preconceived idea that this was just another western story. She did a very commendable job of retelling a western that has been told and retorld a hundred times. Wyatt Earp and OK corral. How? She told the story from the perspective of Allie Earp, wife of Wyatt's brother Virge. T......more

I love biographies. This is a novel but heavily based on journal kept by Allie Earp wife of Virge Earp, one of the west's most formidable men. It is a love story. Coleman caught Allie's personality and vernacular. Great book!......more