by W. C. Tuttle
In the rowdy cattle town of Piperock, a plan for a “safe and sane” Fourth of July collides with frontier pride, hard drinking, and the town’s talent for disaster. As baseball, patriotic speeches, and a daring balloon ascension promise respectable entertainment, Ike Harper watches tradition and reform square off in comic fashion. W. C. Tuttle’s Western humor tale captures the rough music of cowboy speech, small-town rivalry, and the anarchic spirit of a holiday that refuses to behave.
Transcribed from Adventure, November 3, 1917 (The Ridgway Company).