Summary

Jack finds himself in Cheyenne, and his first sight is a fistfight between two fellows in the street. He soon realizes that one of the “fellows” is his sister Caroline and learns the other is Calamity Jane. They are fighting (more or less) over Wild Bill Hickok, who is getting married to neither of them. Wild Bill and Jack make plans to go into the gold mining business together, after each takes care of bits of business.

Wild Bill has his wedding and a honeymoon in Ohio. Jack has to take his sister (who has been ruined by too many disappointments when the world failed to fulfill her romantic notions) to a loony bin down in Omaha. Wild Bill returns and heads up to mining country and plays some poker, where — when holding a pair of eights and a pair of aces — he is shot...