As the town's sheriff, Fran was on an errand for his people. Alas, on his journey back, his horse died. Stranded in the middle of a desert with his only transport to civilisation dead to the world, Fran had to...

Koike Keiichi's take on the Story of the Navajo People. This short story was published in 野生哲学 アメリカ・インディアンに学ぶ (管啓次郎. May 2011. ISBN 9784062881074)

It is the Kyoho Era, during the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, and the shogunate is in the midst of an economic crisis. However, they have a trump card which could be the key to breaking them out of these dire...