A blend of frontier and holiday traditions celebrates Christmas in the Wild West with a collection of stories including: How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar / Bret Harte Stubby Pringle's Christmas / Jack Schadfer No Room at the Inn / Bill Pronzini Three Yuletide Poems / S. Omar Barker Draggin' In the Tree Bunkhouse Christmas A Cowboy's Christmas Prayer A Journey in Search of Christmas / Owen Wister The Bullpuncher / James Stevens Standing Alone in the Darkness / Arthur Winfield Knight Winter Harvest / John Prescott Mainwaring's Gift / Ed Gorman Seven-Up's Christmas / Charles Alden Seltzer Christmas Eve in San Augustine / Edward D. Hoch Gunman's Christmas / Caddo Cameron The Death of Dutch Creel / Loren D. Estleman