Book Catalog
Making Good for Muley
In the rough-and-tumble cattle country of Yaller Rock County, lovesick cowboy Muley Bowles finds his plans to marry Susie Abernathy tangled in family objections, sheep-country rivalries, and the questionable help of his bunkhouse friends. When a mysterious inheritance appears to offer Muley the fortune he needs, it brings with it absurd conditions, comic complications, and a parrot with a talent for trouble. W. C. Tuttle’s rollicking Western comedy blends frontier romance, cowboy banter, and high-spirited satire of range-life loyalties.
In Self-Defense
In the rough-edged cattle town of Piperock, two hard-riding cowboys discover that romance can be more dangerous than gunplay. When Ren Merton and Sig Watson set out to impress a pair of new restaurant proprietors, mistaken identities, bad whiskey, and half-baked heroics turn courtship into comic chaos. W. C. Tuttle’s “In Self Defense” is a lively Western farce filled with frontier slang, saloon wit, and the unpredictable hazards of love on the range.
Hidden Blood
Drifting cowpunchers Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens ride into the sun-baked Southwest with nothing more dangerous in mind than boiling the rheumatism out of Hashknife's aching leg at a remote hot spring. But before they ever reach the water, a midnight stagecoach is robbed, a silent young passenger is gunned down with his hands in the air, and the partners find themselves drawn into the secrets of Hawk Hole—a borderland valley ruled by the towering, reclusive Big Medicine Hawkworth, his Nez Percé wife, and their beautiful half-breed daughter Wanna. With a crooked gambler's saloon, a flashy Mexican rascal nursing a grudge, and a missing fortune in express gold, trouble finds the two wanderers as surely as it always does. A classic Hashknife Hartley range-detective Western, rich in dry humor, frontier atmosphere, and slow-building mystery.
Dough or Dynamite
When a roly-poly motion-picture man arrives at the Cross J ranch hunting for 'local color,' he convinces vain cowpuncher Telescope Tolliver that stardom awaits—if he'll stage a real stage hold-up for the cameras. But in Yaller Rock County, no scheme stays simple: soon the bunkhouse boys are tangled up in missing gold shipments, a suspicious sheriff, a box of dynamite, and a slippery outlaw nobody can quite pin down. Narrated in the wry drawl of ranch hand Henry Peck, this rollicking comedy of errors piles misunderstanding on mischief until the whole county is turned upside down. A classic humorous pulp Western from the pages of Adventure Magazine, packed with banter, blunders, and cowboy poetry of dubious quality.
Law Rustlers
Drifting cowpunchers Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens swore they were done with Willer Crick, the isolated hill colony whose homemade laws, tangled bloodlines, and trigger-happy clannishness make it the most notorious settlement on the range. But when spring fever sets them wandering, the open trail leads straight back to the old faded sign at the forks of the road. There a lanky circuit preacher, an unforgettable girl with a rifle, and a community ruled by a crooked council pull the two partners into one last reckoning with the Crick's peculiar justice. Brimming with dry frontier humor, six-gun action, and the easy banter of two saddle pards, this classic pulp Western from the pages of Adventure Magazine pits common decency against a law unto itself.