by W. C. Tuttle
In the rowdy frontier town of Piperock, a simple debate over where to hold the Fourth of July celebration spirals into glorious small-town chaos. When the question of who actually started the holiday ignites arguments among cowboys, a judge, a sheriff, and a saloon keeper — each more confident and more wrong than the last — narrator Ike Harper finds himself dragged into a madcap reenactment of Washington crossing the Delaware, complete with half-broke broncs, a mounted band, and an involuntary swim down the river. W. C. Tuttle's sharp comic ear captures the bluster and camaraderie of the Old West in a tale that proves one truth above all others: in Piperock, no holiday goes unpunished.
Transcribed from Adventure, January 15, 1920 (The Ridgway Company).