Ajax, For Example
By Tuttle, W. C.
In the rough-and-ready world of Yaller Rock County, two seasoned Westerners find their patience tested by Professor Ajax Ulysses Green, a scholarly Easterner whose scientific ambitions far exceed his frontier common sense. As Ajax pursues his mysterious research among cowboys, miners, judges, and suspicious locals, learned language collides with hard-bitten horse sense to comic effect. W. C. Tuttle’s lively tale blends Western humor, tall-tale absurdity, and satirical frontier character writing in a sharply voiced portrait of book learning gone astray.
Publisher: The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine)
First published: 1922