That was a narrow miss… Coyotes and dolphins don’t really play well together. I’d have had a hard time fitting the pod in my outline into the indian forest.
That and most dolphins are Lutheran. No idea why. They won’t tell me.
They will, if you drink enough moonshine.
Zombies 
And now we know.
This is J T Edson territory: geography, timing, and likely character backgrounds just after the end of the Civil War. The movie “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” is set in this area during the Civil War, mostly further East. Most of the fighting was against the local Indians.
I am rather relieved I didn’t get instructions to emulate one of his cat-fight scenes.
The date is still in the era of cap-and-ball revolvers, though I don’t see any mention of anything exotic. The Confederacy bought a lot of guns in London.
My chapter could fill most of a whole movie, and I can think of a few classics that do have that shortage of plot.
Just woke up, waited up and read brief before going to sleep hoping that my mind would play out my chapter in my dreams, well this morning I am sitting with cup of tea, a blank mind and even worse a blank page, no worries it will happen, I just need to wake up
I do NOT believe it! I nailed it off the top!