SYNOPSIS

One night on a Mississippi riverboat, Samantha Crawford beats Bret Maverick at his own game with a little-known rule, according to Hoyle. Bret's attempts to even the score take him and Samantha across the West to Wagon Wheel, Wyoming Territory where they team up with Big Mike McComb against Joe Riggs and his crooked gambling house.

ENCYCLOPEDIA MAVERICANA

Bledsoe • brace joint • blackjack • bluff • board • Braus, Ma • buck • call • Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage Line • Crawford, Samantha • Cross, George • deck • Delta Star, the • drop • faro • five-card stud poker • fold • Golden Bucket Saloon • high card • Hayes • Hoyle's Games • joker • Union Pacific Railroad • Kansas State Penitentiary • Kittredge • Louisiana and Missouri Packet Company • marked • Maverick, Bret • McComb, Big Mike • Mississippi River • Missouri Pacific Railway • New Orleans • one pair • opener • Palace Hotel • Pioneer Hotel • poker • raise • Riggs, Joe • roulette • Saint Louis • second-dealing • see • Square Deck • straight • Stonewall Jackson, the • table rules • tap • thousand-dollar bill • Tree, Henry •  Wagon Wheel • whipsaw • Wyoming Territory

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

RECOMMENDED READING

Hoyle's Games: Containing All the Modern Methods of Playing the Latest and most Fashionable Games, Thomas Frere, — J. S. Locke & Co., 1876