SYNOPSIS

A dying man's last request sets Bret Maverick on a seemingly impossible year-long search from the Wyoming to Arizona territories for proof that can free a man serving a life sentence for a murder he didn't commit.

ENCYCLOPEDIA MAVERICANA

Arizona Territory • Brandon, Whitey • Buffalo Gals • cash in • check • Cheyenne • Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage Line • Clark, Rex • Colt Single Action Army revolver • concerned citizen • Davenport, Fanny • Dolan, Lefty • Dry Springs • Ferris, Jedd • Ferris, Martha • Ferris Ranch • Fort Laramie • .45 caliber •  four of a kind • hole card • Hoyt, John Philo • kicker • Maverick, Bret • Maverick, "Pappy " Beauregard • Maxwell, Ben • Mexico • pair • Palace Saloon • poker • poker player (Cheyenne) • poker player (Prescott) • pot • Prescott • opener • road agent • Rocking Star Ranch • run one • Safford, Anson P. K. • Saint Patrick's Day • Sheriff (Prescott) • Sheriff (Dry Springs) • Southern Emigrant Trail • stage robber • stage robber's partner • stagecoach driver • stud poker • Teresa • .38 caliber • tinhorn • three of a kind • Tucson • two pair • Whiskey Row • Wyoming Territory • Yuma Territorial Prison

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

FURTHER READING

Arizona: A History, Thomas E. Sheridan, — University of Arizona Press, 1995