by W. C. Tuttle
In the rough-edged cattle town of Piperock, two hard-riding cowboys discover that romance can be more dangerous than gunplay. When Ren Merton and Sig Watson set out to impress a pair of new restaurant proprietors, mistaken identities, bad whiskey, and half-baked heroics turn courtship into comic chaos. W. C. Tuttle’s “In Self Defense” is a lively Western farce filled with frontier slang, saloon wit, and the unpredictable hazards of love on the range.
Transcribed from Adventure, February 1917 (The Ridgway Company).