The orphaned, bucktoothed, New York Irish boy speaks Spanish and claims his name is William Bonney. His amigos call him "Kid." Newspapers in the New Mexico Territory and across America call him "Billy the Kid." With one last chance, he heads into Old Mexico where he hopes to start a new life with his lover, the fierce Apache maiden Tzoeh.

The West will never be the same . . . .

New Mexico, 1922.

The orphaned eighteen-year-old stablehand Rosalind Grundy is seduced by a married woman, and faces a lynching after the pair is surprised in flagrante delicto. But she manages to escape with the aid of a strange and aristocratic old man who calls himself Don Valiente.

Don Valiente, having read too many dime westerns, has come to believe that he is a famous gunfighter. He thinks Roz is a young man named Ross, and he takes her under his wing, intending to teach her and to revive "The Code Of...