Too Much Progress for Piperock
By Tuttle, W. C.
When a mysterious interpretive dancer arrives in the rough-edged cattle town of Piperock, the community’s uneasy peace gives way to vanity, jealousy, and comic ambition. As cowboys, husbands, wives, and self-appointed civic leaders vie to prove their sophistication, the frontier settlement finds itself swept into a hilariously ill-fitted march toward modern culture. W. C. Tuttle’s satirical Western tale blends rustic dialect, slapstick energy, and small-town rivalry in a spirited portrait of progress arriving faster than Piperock can handle.
Publisher: The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine)
First published: 1922