SYNOPSIS

Bret Maverick travels to Silver Springs, New Mexico Territory, to expose a brace joint run by an old girlfriend's new fiancé. Along the way, he considers himself fortunate to win an imported Arabian mount in a Clayville poker game. But Bret's luck seems to change when he discovers his Arabian is actually a camel, one of the last brought into the country by the Army in the years before the Civil War.

ENCYCLOPEDIA MAVERICANA

Arizona Territory • Baker's Hardware Company • bartender • baseball • brace joint • brace man • Brimmer • California • call • card shark • cash in • check • Chihuahuan Desert • Clayville • Clovis • Connors • Crown City • Crystal Bar & Café • cut • deal out • dealer • Denton • derringer • Drake • .45 caliber • Fatima • Ferguson • Fort Tejon • four-card spread • hand • Harris, Howard • Hatchet Valley Mining Company • Henderson's Well • holdout device • Hoyle's Games • Jimson, Carl • Johnson • kings full • livery stableman • Lone Star Hotel • Lou • Maverick, Bret • Nelson, Doc • New Mexico Territory • Norton, Tommy • open • pat • Pioneer Hotel • poker • raise • Rigby • run one • Scott • Seely, Donna • sheriff • Silver Springs • Silver Springs Hotel • single-card holdout • Square Deal Saloon • tapped out • three of a kind • tinhorn • United States Army • United States Camel Corps

Listings in italics are not specifically mentioned by name in the story, but are inferred through other contextual references.

FURTHER READING

"Relic of Fort Tejon" by Kenneth Perkins — Colliers, December 20, 1947

The Last Camel Charge: The Untold Story of America's Desert Military Experiment; Forrest Bryant Johnson, — Berkeley, 2012