Gabe McFarlain is adjusting to life in the twenty-first century, and looking forward to his first modern Christmas with his wife Morgan, and his adopted son. Sometimes, however, a little old-fashioned cowboy spirit can add sparkle to the magic of the holidays.
—from publicity material

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  1. “An Old-Fashioned Christmas” by Peggy L. Henderson, serialized in Peggy L. Henderson’s newsletter, circa December 2015.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Peggy L. Henderson
  2. possibly embellished, for a charity anthology.
    “An Old-Fashioned Christmas” by Peggy L. Henderson, in Christmas Caring: A Christmas Charity Short Story Anthology [e-book], unknown editors (Unlimited Dreams Publishing, December 2015).
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Peggy L. Henderson
  3. re-release, possibly embellished, for a two-story bundle.
    “An Old-Fashioned Christmas” by Peggy L. Henderson, in Second Chance Christmas [e-book] by Peggy L. Henderson (unknown publisher, December 2020).
    4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Peggy L. Henderson

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  1. Debut—Peggy Henderson kindly wrote to me in spring of 2021: “This story was never published anywhere on its own. I wrote it for my newsletter subscribers several years ago, and it's only available to download off Bookfunnel. Last year, I bundled it with the other Christmas story I wrote for Second Chances, and published them together under the title Second Chance Christmas.” The story was also in Christmas Caring: A Christmas Charity Short Story Anthology [ebook], Unlimited Dreams Publishing, December 2015, which is no longer available for download.

    Our estimated date of publication (December 2015) is based on Peggy’s note together with her October 2015 blog posting noting that she was toying with the idea of a novella to go between books 3 and 4 in the Second Chances series. Finally, the story had to have been written some time before its appearance in the 2015 Christmas Caring anthology since stories for that anthology were solicited on 11 December 2015 and the whole ebook put together by 13 December 2015.