The Devil's Dooryard
By Tuttle, W. C.
When drifting cowpunchers Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens ride into Sundown City, they land in the middle of a blazing gunfight and a decades-old feud that has just claimed the lives of two rival ranch owners. Signing on with the embattled Circle Dot, they find a range plagued by vanishing cattle, bushwhackers, and a scorched volcanic badland known as the Devil's Dooryard, where trouble has a way of finding trespassers. Matters take an unexpected turn when the ranch's new owner arrives from San Francisco—a city-bred young woman wholly unprepared for life on a feuding frontier. With wry humor and quick guns, Hashknife sets out to untangle the mystery behind the rustling before the range war consumes them all. A classic pulp Western brimming with banter, six-gun action, and old-fashioned cowboy grit.
Publisher: The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine)
First published: 1921