The greatest attraction of the Ahasuerus and Flint Traveling Carnival and Sideshow is their sharpshooter Billybuck Dancer who hates his life and wishes he lived thousands of years earlier when he could test his skills against legendary gunfighters like Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid. The carnival arranges more and more difficult tasks for him many of them putting his life in jeopardy but he breezes through them with no discernable effort and finally Thaddeus Flint agrees to let his sharpshooter fight a duel to the death against a perfect facsimile of Doc Holliday. And the day the fascimile is completed they time it and realize it's faster on the draw than their star performer. What happens next brings the 4-book Tales of the Galactic Midway series to an thrilling and memorable conclusion.