by W. C. Tuttle
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.
Transcribed from Adventure, August 1917 (The Ridgway Company).