Book Catalog
Shotgun Gold
In the lawless cow-town of Turquoise City, a fragile campaign for reform collides with gamblers, cattlemen, and old frontier grudges. When a crooked card game turns deadly, suspicion falls on Pete Conley, drawing Sheriff Roaring Rigby into a dangerous fight to uphold justice against a mob’s revenge. Against the backdrop of Black Horse County’s saloons, ranch rivalries, and moonlit desert trails, loyalties are tested and hidden motives begin to surface. W. C. Tuttle’s Shotgun Gold delivers a classic Hashknife and Sleepy Western rich with frontier humor, hard-riding action, and tense moral reckonings.
Upside Down or Backwards
When Magpie Simpkins stumbles back into Piperock after a disastrous Eastern prospecting trip — broke, overdressed, and apparently the proud owner of a live cassowary he purchased in a drunken stupor — his partner Ike Harper braces for the inevitable chaos. The exotic bird, a bewildering stranger to the Montana frontier, quickly becomes the centerpiece of an elaborate small-town scheme that spirals from a street-side auction to a five-dollar raffle, while the whole of Piperock scrambles after a rumored thousand-dollar scientific prize. W. C. Tuttle's Piperock yarn is a masterwork of deadpan frontier comedy, built on tall-tale logic, pitch-perfect vernacular, and the enduring partnership of two lovable fools chasing fortune the wrong way round. First published in Adventure Magazine in 1918, this public domain gem remains a shining example of early American Western humor.
Tied Up for Tombstone
When prospector Ike Harper drifts back into the rowdy frontier town of Piperock, he finds his old partner Magpie Simpkins wearing two improbable hats: county sheriff and self-appointed editor of the town's only newspaper. With just thirteen sheets of paper, one can of ink, and a print shop full of backwards type, Magpie is determined to put out one final edition — featuring the obituary of Tombstone Todd, the gunman who has sworn to plant the sheriff first. Between bullet-riddled windows, outraged subscribers, and a traveling theater troupe that throws the whole town into chaos, Ike discovers that frontier journalism is anything but a quiet trade. W. C. Tuttle's rollicking Piperock yarn from Adventure Magazine serves up tall-tale humor, quick draws, and small-town mayhem in equal measure.
The Valley of Lost Herds
In the sprawling Tomahawk Valley, aging cattle baron Park Reber rules nearly every ranch, saloon, and dusty street — yet a decades-old betrayal has left him with a bitter enemy in rancher Buck Priest and a lifetime of loneliness. When a gunfight erupts on pay night, June Meline, a sharp-witted violinist with secrets of her own, saves Reber's life and is drawn into the heart of a long-simmering feud. As rustlers thin the great herds and suspicion falls on the elusive half-Cheyenne horseman Jack Silver, hidden loyalties and old wounds collide on the open range. W. C. Tuttle's classic pulp Western from the pages of Adventure Magazine delivers gunsmoke, mystery, and a reckoning twenty years in the making.
Shepherds for Science
In the sun-blasted hills of Yaller Rock County, two reluctant drifters find themselves deputized into the least desirable duty in the West: guarding a disputed flock of sheep. Their misadventures multiply when a pair of earnest Eastern professors arrive to investigate whether shepherding truly drives men mad. Blending frontier dialect, slapstick calamity, and sharp comic timing, this classic Western yarn turns range rivalry and scientific curiosity into a riotous test of nerve, pride, and common sense.