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Dirty Work for Doughgod
When the trustees of Paradise decree that no female schoolteacher will ever set foot in their cow town again, four well-meaning cowpunchers of the Cross J ranch hatch a scheme to intercept the lady arriving by train. What follows is a whirlwind of runaway buckboards, mistaken identities, blistered feet, and back-country mayhem as the self-styled rescuers stumble from one calamity into the next. W. C. Tuttle's rollicking tale of frontier chivalry gone hilariously wrong first appeared in Adventure Magazine in 1919, showcasing the tall-tale humor and colorful vernacular that made his cowboy yarns beloved by pulp readers. A classic comic Western where the best intentions in Paradise lead straight to trouble.
The Devil’s Dooryard
When drifting cowpunchers Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens ride into Sundown City, they land in the middle of a blazing gunfight and a decades-old feud that has just claimed the lives of two rival ranch owners. Signing on with the embattled Circle Dot, they find a range plagued by vanishing cattle, bushwhackers, and a scorched volcanic badland known as the Devil's Dooryard, where trouble has a way of finding trespassers. Matters take an unexpected turn when the ranch's new owner arrives from San Francisco—a city-bred young woman wholly unprepared for life on a feuding frontier. With wry humor and quick guns, Hashknife sets out to untangle the mystery behind the rustling before the range war consumes them all. A classic pulp Western brimming with banter, six-gun action, and old-fashioned cowboy grit.
Creepin’ Tintypes
In W. C. Tuttle’s comic Western tale, two reluctant drifters are lured back toward the notorious town of Piperock by a motion-picture man chasing the “real” Wild West. Disguises, frontier bravado, and a dangerous appetite for authenticity collide as the pair try to survive a town where every joke can turn into gunfire. Blending tall-tale humor with early cinema satire, “Creepin’ Tintypes” captures the rowdy absurdity of Western legend in full gallop.
Cinders
When a powerful railroad magnate’s private car stalls in the heat-blasted reaches of the California desert, boredom, jealousy, and a careless signal set off a chain of comic misunderstandings. At lonely San Rego station, lovesick cowboy Slim Simpson finds himself tangled between a suspicious sweetheart, a flirtatious heiress, and trouble rolling down the tracks. Blending Western humor, railroad adventure, and brisk 1920s magazine storytelling, “Cinders” delivers a lively tale of romance, mistaken motives, and frontier quick thinking.
Bearly Reasonable
In the rugged hills near Piperock, prospectors Magpie Simpkins and Ike Harper are hired by an eccentric Eastern professor determined to settle a scientific argument about grizzlies, prairie dogs, and rattlesnakes. With a shotgun-happy doctor, a formidable professor’s wife, a sickly tame bear, and a badger mistaken for a cub, the expedition quickly turns into frontier farce. W. C. Tuttle’s comic Western tale delivers sharp dialect humor, backcountry absurdity, and a riotous send-up of tenderfoot science in the wild American West.