SYNOPSIS

On the day of our nation's Centennial and late for an important poker game in Denver, Bart Maverick gets caught in a web of political corruption and violence. Not only does the territory's statehood depend on his recovering Judge Somervell's lost documents, but so does Bart's very life.

ENCYCLOPEDIA MAVERICANA

Arizona Territory • bartender • Bella Union • Bigelow, Quincy • Bluebird Café • Bohanan, Fred • Brown Palace Hotel • Bukey, Leonard • Burt, Andrew •  Capital City • Capital City Hotel • Denver • Dixon • doctor • Emigration Canyon • Farfan, Charles W. • First National Bank • Gifford • Grantsville • Grasshopper Acts • hardware salesman • Hazelton • Heath's Crossing • hotel clerk • Independence Day • Kansas • Kilmer, Janet • Last Chance Mine • Louie • Mac's Barber Shop • Marshal • Maverick, Bart • Maverick, "Pappy" Beauregard • Mellin's Food • Mormon Trail • O'Brien, Thomas • Old Wagon Road • Overland Stage Lines • Philadelphia • poker • Roman's Saddlery • Salt Lake City • Somervell, Judge • stagecoach driver (Grantsville) • stagecoach driver (Salt Lake City) • Starr, Joanne • Stuart, Charles Sanderson • Stuart Machine • Stuart messenger • Sunrise Saloon • Texas • thousand-dollar bill • thug (Hazelton's first) • thug (Hazelton's second) • Tiny • Tucson • Utah Territory • Waco • Wagon Wheel Saloon • warehouse owner • Waring & Fenwick Cattle Brokers • Washington, D. C.

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

FURTHER READING

"Roadside History of Utah" by Cynthia Larsen Bennett — Mountain Press Publishing Company, June 1, 1999