When Rawhide Robinson, babysitting a herd of beeves on a train bound forChicago, reads about a rat infestation in the mining boomtown of Tombstone, hehatches a plan that results in yet another string of extraordinary adventures.Retired mountain man Longshot Hawken shows the way down the Santa Fe Trail. ArloAxelrod ramrods a reluctant cowboy crew of Zeb Howard, Johnny Londo, TonyMorales, and Frenchy Leroux. And as if handling an unpredictable herd wasn'ttrouble enough, the shiftless Buckskin Zimmer does his best to do the worst tocrew and critters. Then, the designing Don Carlos Valencia’s woeful wooing ofthe magnificent Magdalena Maria Martinez y Montez de Monterrey forces her tothrow in with the cowboy band in an attempt to escape his clutches. And allalong the way, Rawhide Robinson holds the enterprise together as he meets everyadventure head-on, and regales his drovers–and anybody else who will listen–withcampfire tales of insane adventures, exploits, and escapades experiencedelsewhere during his extraordinary cowboy career on the western frontier.