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Ride ’Em and Weep

Whitfield, Raoul F. (author)
Consolidated Magazines Corporation (in Blue Book Magazine) • July, 1926
Keywords: aviation adventure fiction, 1920s air circus story, daredevil pilot rivalry, early aviation historical fiction, barnstorming and stunt flying, romantic aviation drama

In the high-stakes world of a rough-riding air circus, daredevil pilot Happy Hennessy joins the Billings Air Circus, igniting a fierce rivalry with parachute jumper Pack Kennedy over the affections of the captivating Mary Thomas. As death-defying stunts and reckless ambition collide in the skies over 1920s Texas, loyalty, jealousy, and survival push these aviators to the edge—where one wrong move could mean disaster. A gripping tale of aerial daring, romance, and rivalry, *Ride ’Em and Weep* soars with the raw energy of early aviation’s golden age.

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A Tin Cup Trophy

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • January 18, 1918
Keywords: Western short story, cowboy humor fiction, 1910s American literature, frontier adventure tale, historical Western comedy, W.C. Tuttle classic stories

In the scorching heat of Paradise, three cowhands—banjo-playing Hen Peck, poetic Muley Bowles, and boastful Telescope Tolliver—find their monotonous wait for a cookstove upended when three determined Eastern women arrive seeking adventure, wild game, and a taste of the untamed West. What begins as a farcical hunt for mountain goats spirals into chaos, with stolen horses, a bewildered chaperone, and a Piegan squaw who drinks more than she cooks. A rollicking Western tale of misadventure, mistaken identities, and the perils of guiding tenderfooted ladies into the wild.

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A Little Help for Hawkins

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • December 18, 1920
Keywords: W. C. Tuttle, frontier humor, early 20th century pulp fiction, cowboy comedy, Western comedy short story, bunkhouse misadventure

When brooding cowhand Slim Hawkins lets slip that he stands to inherit a fortune—provided he marries and invests ten thousand dollars by month's end—his four Cross J bunkmates take it upon themselves to fix things, sight unseen and sense unsound. W. C. Tuttle's comic romp follows the well-meaning chaos that erupts across Yaller Rock County as the boys buy saloons, cattle, and automobiles on Slim's behalf, only to discover the whole scheme was built on a misread magazine story.

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For the Parson of Paradise

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • February 18, 1919
Keywords: frontier comedy, W. C. Tuttle, early 20th century pulp fiction, cowboy comedy, Western humor short story, small-town theater misadventure

When the penniless parson of Paradise needs funds for his church, Magpie Simpkins hatches a plan to stage a production of Ben-Hur—complete with a bombastic traveling tragedian, an untrained local cast, and real horses on a makeshift stage. W. C. Tuttle's uproarious tale of frontier ambition and spectacular failure follows Ike Harper and Magpie through rehearsals, rivalries, and a chariot race that brings the house down—literally.

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Evidently Not

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • February 18, 1920
Keywords: W. C. Tuttle, frontier adventure, early 20th century pulp fiction, cowboy comedy, Western humor short story, mistaken identity comedy

When two drifting cowboys are mistaken for bank robbers and stripped of their clothes by a wily sheriff, they escape a crumbling adobe jail and bluff their way through the frontier town of War Bonnet—one of them dressed as a preacher's wife. W. C. Tuttle's rollicking tale follows Ike and Magpie Simpkins through a cascade of mistaken identities, unlikely disguises, and barroom chaos as they try to stay one step ahead of a posse, a lynch mob, and their own argument about the merits of circumstantial evidence.