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Silver .41

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • November 30, 1925
Keywords: classic western fiction, Western mystery, vintage pulp Western, ranch country suspense, humorous Western, Moon River valley, frontier detective story, counterfeit money mystery, Old West lawman, cowboy crime fiction

Newly elected sheriff “Skeeter Bill” Sarg is still finding his footing in dusty Moon River County when a government detective brings word of counterfeit silver dollars traced to the valley. With his sharp-tongued deputy Kaintuck Kennedy at his side, Skeeter must navigate cattle-town politics, wary ranchers, old rivalries, and a trail of strange clues that soon turns far darker than bad money. Blending frontier humor, mystery, and hard-edged Western atmosphere, this tale follows an unlikely lawman as he learns that justice on the range often hides in the smallest details.

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Clean Crazy

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • May 18, 1918
Keywords: mistaken identity western, W. C. Tuttle, early 20th century pulp fiction, cowboy comedy, comic Western short story, public domain Western fiction, frontier slapstick, Montana ranch humor, ranch dance story, American archival fiction

In W. C. Tuttle’s comic Western tale, a simple plan to look presentable for a ranch dance sends Hen Peck and Telescope Tolliver into a sunbaked Montana misadventure. Set among cowboys, creek beds, cattle, goats, and a country posse, the story turns frontier life into a cascade of mistaken identity and slapstick humiliation. Told in lively dialect with dry wit and archival charm, this public-domain range comedy captures the rowdy humor of early twentieth-century pulp Western fiction.

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Blame It on Brother Bill

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • November 20, 1921
Keywords: early 20th century Western, cowboy fiction, W. C. Tuttle, frontier humor, American West literature, ranch life, mistaken identity, satirical Western, Western comedy, Montana setting

In W. C. Tuttle’s raucous Western comedy, the woman-shy rancher Jay Bird Whittaker and his Cross-J cowboys find their quiet lives upended by a misread letter, a reckless telegram, and the rumored arrival of two mysterious women from Montana. Set amid the dust, bravado, and comic chaos of Paradise, the story skewers cowboy heroics, small-town ceremony, and romantic imagination with fast-talking frontier wit. A lively tale of mistaken identity and ranch-house mayhem, it captures the tall-tale humor of early twentieth-century Western fiction.

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The Catspaw of Piperock

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Butterick Publishing Company (in Adventure Magazine) • February 1, 1929
Keywords: W. C. Tuttle, early 20th century pulp fiction, cowboy comedy, Western humor fiction, Christmas short story, Wild West comedy, frontier town adventure, classic American humor, holiday Western story, Adventure Magazine 1929

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.

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Bad and Mad

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
Street & Smith Corporation • May 19, 1928
Keywords: Western short story, classic Western literature, frontier fiction, 1920s pulp Western, mistaken identity western, W. C. Tuttle, twin brothers outlaw, American West crime, sheriff and outlaw, desert Southwest fiction

When a seasoned outlaw stumbles upon his twin brother—the sheriff of Oro City—at a remote desert water hole, a tense standoff quickly spirals into a deadly game of identity and deception. With the law's badge now in his possession, the outlaw rides boldly into town to play a role he was never meant to fill, only to discover that nothing about his brother's life is quite what it seemed. W. C. Tuttle's sharp-tongued tale of mistaken identity and frontier irony delivers a twist ending that strikes with the force of a desert sun.