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The Catspaw of Piperock
By Tuttle, W. C. (author)
Original publication: The Butterick Publishing Company (in Adventure Magazine), February 1, 1929
In the frost-bitten frontier town of Piperock, a sudden wave of remorse strikes the irrepressible duo of Dirty Shirt Jones and Scenery Sims—but their road to redemption is anything but straight and narrow. Narrator Ike Harper watches helplessly as a harebrained scheme to improve the local church spirals into a riotous chain of misadventures involving a cantankerous camel, a runaway automobile, and a very ill-tempered steer. W. C. Tuttle's holiday yarn crackles with deadpan wit and the warmth of a tight-knit community where chaos and good intentions are practically indistinguishable. A rowdy, laugh-out-loud celebration of the Wild West at Christmastime.
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Keywords: W. C. Tuttle, early 20th century pulp fiction, cowboy comedy, Western humor fiction, Christmas short story, Wild West comedy, frontier town adventure, classic American humor, holiday Western story, Adventure Magazine 1929
Bad and Mad
By Tuttle, W. C. (author)
Original publication: Street & Smith Corporation, May 19, 1928
When a seasoned outlaw stumbles upon his twin brother—the sheriff of Oro City—at a remote desert water hole, a tense standoff quickly spirals into a deadly game of identity and deception. With the law's badge now in his possession, the outlaw rides boldly into town to play a role he was never meant to fill, only to discover that nothing about his brother's life is quite what it seemed. W. C. Tuttle's sharp-tongued tale of mistaken identity and frontier irony delivers a twist ending that strikes with the force of a desert sun.
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Keywords: Western short story, classic Western literature, frontier fiction, 1920s pulp Western, mistaken identity western, W. C. Tuttle, twin brothers outlaw, American West crime, sheriff and outlaw, desert Southwest fiction
The Curse of Drink
By Tuttle, W. C. (author)
Original publication: Doubleday, Doran & Co. (in Short Stories Magazine), April 10, 1929
In the raucous cowtown of San Pablo, a church benefit play promises culture, charity, and a grand moral lesson—but with cowpunchers Peewee Parker and Hozie Sykes pressed into service, the stage becomes a battleground of bruised egos, bad acting, and frontier chaos. W. C. Tuttle’s comic Western tale turns amateur theatricals into a riot of saloon humor, small-town rivalry, and slapstick disaster. Told in a lively vernacular voice, this archival short story captures the absurdity and exuberance of early twentieth-century pulp Western comedy.
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Keywords: cowboy humor, frontier comedy, small town western, W. C. Tuttle, pulp Western fiction, comic Western short story, public domain Western, 1920s Western literature, amateur theater comedy, saloon and cowtown story