An anthology of short fiction and short non-fiction. Showdown at Echo Amphitheatre is an historical fiction concerning an event in Kit Carson's life. In Can We Still Collect the Bounty gunfighter Clay Allison is embarrassed. What do you do when the government won't permit any law enforcement? Find out in the Marshal of Arizona. Wind Wagon Thomas sails all the way to New Mexico in Pirates of the Llano Estacado. A soldier who fought in the bloody battle of Cieneguilla writes home in Letter from Fort Burgwin. In the Power of Fox and Snake an Apache poses as a Spanish Grandee and becomes a riverboat gambler. Seven men escape from advancing Confederate forces at Mesilla in a stolen stagecoach only to encounter Cochise. In the Lady was a Gunfighter a girl raised by Indians is taught to be a lady by a gambling courtesan. Penitent Child is a Christmas story.