Married life for Tap and Pepper isn't turning out quite the way they planned. The ranch is gone. They've moved to Cheyenne. And Pepper has been feeling rather poorly lately. But at least Tap has found a job that takes what he's got - integrity, nerves of steel, and a fast draw. Those things come in handy when you're a deputy marshall. But just as life seems to be settling down, Tap suddenly finds himself as acting marshall in a town that has little...

"In 1954, six men who spent their young lives as cowboys in the Southwest, now gather at the Matador Hotel in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, for weekly games of cribbage. One rainy afternoon, on of the men brings his ten-year-old grandson with him to the cribbage game. The boy has on his red straw hat, his cap gun, and wears his leather bullet belt with silver painted wooden bullets. They play cribbage and tell stories - and the boy listens while...