The Catspaw of Piperock
By Tuttle, W. C.
In the frost-bitten frontier town of Piperock, a sudden wave of remorse strikes the irrepressible duo of Dirty Shirt Jones and Scenery Sims—but their road to redemption is anything but straight and narrow. Narrator Ike Harper watches helplessly as a harebrained scheme to improve the local church spirals into a riotous chain of misadventures involving a cantankerous camel, a runaway automobile, and a very ill-tempered steer. W. C. Tuttle's holiday yarn crackles with deadpan wit and the warmth of a tight-knit community where chaos and good intentions are practically indistinguishable. A rowdy, laugh-out-loud celebration of the Wild West at Christmastime.
Publisher: The Butterick Publishing Company (in Adventure Magazine)
First published: 1929