Book Catalog
Magpie's Night-Bear
In the rugged hills of Western Montana, two prospecting partners settle into a rough cabin with little more than grit, a phonograph, and a talent for trouble. When an unexpected midnight visitor shatters their uneasy peace, tall-tale humor and frontier chaos collide in classic Western fashion. W. C. Tuttle’s “Magpie’s Night-Bear” blends comic suspense, rustic dialect, and early twentieth-century adventure storytelling in a lively tale of wilderness misadventure.
More Than Skin Deep
In a quiet mountain town, a shattered safe, a stolen fortune, and a dead clerk send the community into panic. As a celebrated city detective arrives with modern methods and bold conclusions, the unassuming local constable, Dad Anderson, relies on patience, common sense, and his understanding of human character. Erle Stanley Gardner’s “More Than Skin Deep” is a sharply drawn small-town mystery that contrasts forensic certainty with old-fashioned judgment.
Helped by a Horse Doctor
In the rough-and-tumble frontier town of Piperock, cowpoke Ike Harper finds his partner Magpie Simpkins tangled up with a traveling stranger and a get-rich-quick scheme involving a dubious fraternal order called the Loyal Legion of Lizards. What begins with a bent gun barrel and a busted skull soon spirals into a wild chain of misadventures featuring secret handshakes, life-insurance pitches sold under gunfire, a quick-thinking horse doctor, and a goat with ambitions of its own. Equal parts tall tale and slapstick farce, W. C. Tuttle's yarn captures the drawl, grit, and gleeful absurdity of the Old West at its most ornery. A rollicking comedic Western first published in the pages of Adventure magazine, this Piperock story stands as a classic of pulp-era frontier humor.
The Trey of Spades
In W. C. Tuttle’s classic Western tale, drifting cowpunchers Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens ride into the Thunder range hoping to find peace, only to discover a country shadowed by suspicion, family trouble, and a masked outlaw known as the Trey of Spades. As ranch rivalries, gambling rooms, and uneasy loyalties converge around Oxbow and the Maverick ranch, the two newcomers are drawn toward a mystery they meant to avoid. Blending frontier humor, hard-riding action, and old-range intrigue, this story captures the restless spirit of the cattle country at the edge of law and legend.
I Buy Me Couple Horses
A wry frontier comedy unfolds when a man’s simple wish to own a couple of horses invites a parade of dubious bargains, hard-luck salesmen, and one unforgettable beast. Told in a sharp, colloquial voice, this classic Western sketch captures the hazards of rural ambition with deadpan humor and vivid period charm. W. C. Tuttle turns everyday misadventure into a lively portrait of optimism colliding with chaos on the range. Ideal for readers of vintage Americana, comic Western fiction, and literary cowboy tales.