by W. C. Tuttle
In W. C. Tuttle’s comic Western tale, two hard-luck cowboys find a pair of ruined yellow boots turning an ordinary train ride into a night of chaos across the Bad Lands. Narrated with rustic wit and fast-talking frontier humor, the story follows Ike Harper and Magpie Simpkins as vanity, mistaken identity, and sheer bad luck collide. A lively piece of early twentieth-century Western fiction, it blends slapstick adventure with the tall-tale spirit of the American frontier.
Transcribed from Adventure, June 1919 (The Ridgway Company).