Playing Safe in Piperock
By Tuttle, W. C.
In the rough-and-ready frontier town of Piperock, Ike Harper and Magpie Simpkins return from the hills just as the citizens prepare a grand Old Home Week celebration built on the unlikely promise of peace, order, and brotherly love. When a dubious circus-and-carnival outfit enters the mix, Piperock’s best intentions collide with old rivalries, wayward animals, and the town’s talent for turning civic pride into comic chaos. W. C. Tuttle’s exuberant Western farce delivers tall-tale humor, colorful dialect, and a rollicking portrait of a cow-town that can never quite play safe.
Publisher: The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine)
First published: 1919