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Loco or Love

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • August 18, 1918
Keywords: W. C. Tuttle, frontier humor, comic Western fiction, classic pulp fiction, cowboy comedy, public domain Western, Piperock Western story, sheriff and deputy, romantic rivalry, Adventure Magazine 1918

In W. C. Tuttle’s comic Western tale “Loco or Love,” Sheriff Magpie Simpkins and his deputy Ike Harper find their long partnership tested by rivalry, pride, and an unexpected infatuation. Set amid the dusty trails and frontier town of Piperock, the story blends slapstick banter, outlaw trouble, and romantic misadventure with Tuttle’s signature cowboy humor. As robberies unsettle the county and a mysterious newcomer captures both lawmen’s attention, duty and desire collide in a lively tale of mistaken judgment and frontier folly.

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A Man-Sized Pet

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • December, 1916
Keywords: frontier comedy, W. C. Tuttle, comic Western fiction, classic western humor, backwoods tale, animal story, grizzly bear, wildcat pet, Sleeping Creek, American frontier

In the remote mining country of Sleeping Creek, three eccentric frontiersmen pride themselves on keeping only the fiercest kind of companions. But when timid, tidy Bantie Weyman acquires a pet of his own, his friends’ swaggering notions of courage and “man-sized” animals are put to uproarious test. W. C. Tuttle’s comic frontier tale delivers a lively clash of wilderness bravado, practical jokes, and backwoods absurdity.

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The Buckaroo of Blue Wells

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Butterick Publishing Company (in Adventure Magazine) • November 23, 1926
Keywords: classic western fiction, cowboy adventure, W. C. Tuttle, comic Western, tenderfoot cowboy, Arizona frontier, saloon humor, payroll robbery, ranch country, Blue Wells

When weary San Francisco bookkeeper James Eaton Legg abandons ledgers for open air, he heads west with a stray dog and a sudden ambition to become a cowpuncher. In Blue Wells, Arizona, he arrives amid saloon mischief, hard-drinking cowboys, lost money, and a daring payroll robbery that throws the desert town into confusion. W. C. Tuttle’s comic Western follows an unlikely tenderfoot into a rough-edged frontier world of gamblers, ranch hands, crooked schemes, and accidental heroics.

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Two Fares East

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Butterick Publishing Company (in Adventure Magazine) • December 31, 1926
Keywords: classic western fiction, small town western, W. C. Tuttle, frontier humor, American West, ranch life, cowboy romance, sheriff western, historical western, cow country drama

On the Tumbling River range, a wedding night at the Flying H turns from raucous frontier celebration to public disgrace when young sheriff Joe Rich fails to appear at the altar. As rumor, wounded pride, and hard judgment sweep through Pinnacle City, Peggy Wheeler and the people around her must reckon with loyalty, honor, and the fragile line between love and ruin. W. C. Tuttle’s Western tale blends cow-country humor, romantic tension, and small-town intrigue against the rugged backdrop of ranch life in the American frontier.

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The Dead-Line

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • October 20, 1924
Keywords: classic western fiction, cowboy adventure, range war, W. C. Tuttle, cattlemen and sheepherders, frontier family conflict, Lo Lo Valley, Western suspense, divided loyalties, early twentieth-century Western

In the heat-hazed Lo Lo Valley, Jack Hartwell stands between two warring worlds: the cattle range that raised him and the sheep country tied to his wife’s bloodline. As rival outfits draw a deadly boundary across the hills, old grudges, family loyalties, and suspicion threaten to ignite open range war. W. C. Tuttle’s Western tale blends frontier conflict, hard-riding suspense, and divided allegiance in a landscape where every choice carries the weight of blood and honor.