In this Southwestern Chicken Little tale that incorporates Spanish words, a chachalaca (desert bird) and her feathered friends set off to tell the chief that the sky is falling.
After Phoebe welcomes the new schoolteacher, Miss Hornswaggle, and her bird to the Texas town of Buzzard, she finds she has to put the Tumbleweed Gang in line once again.
In far west Texas, Phoebe's upbringing as a southwestern belle who can also rope and ride equips her to square off against the meanest, dirtiest, and most ill-mannered cowpokes in the territory.