The Color of His Boots
By Tuttle, W. C.
In W. C. Tuttle’s comic Western tale, two hard-luck cowboys find a pair of ruined yellow boots turning an ordinary train ride into a night of chaos across the Bad Lands. Narrated with rustic wit and fast-talking frontier humor, the story follows Ike Harper and Magpie Simpkins as vanity, mistaken identity, and sheer bad luck collide. A lively piece of early twentieth-century Western fiction, it blends slapstick adventure with the tall-tale spirit of the American frontier.
Publisher: The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine)
First published: 1919