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Hair-Trigger Hollibaugh

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • JFebruary 18, 1918
Keywords: classic western fiction, early 20th century Western, outlaw Western, frontier humor, prospector story, American pulp fiction, public domain Western, comic Western story, gold rush adventure, mining camp tale

In the rough-edged mining town of Blue Nose, a down-on-his-luck prospector crosses paths with the unforgettable Hair-Trigger Hollibaugh, a sleepy outlaw-philosopher with a talent for trouble. Together with a contrary burro and a cast of frontier eccentrics, they drift into a scheme that could wake the whole camp from its dusty slumber. W. C. Tuttle’s comic Western tale blends gold-rush grit, deadpan humor, and tall-tale bravado in a lively portrait of ambition, deception, and frontier justice.

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The Silent Cabin

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
Doubleday, Page & Co. (in Short Stories Magazine) • November 26, 1926
Keywords: Alaska frontier fiction, Arctic survival story, wilderness adventure, literary short story, moral choice fiction, gold rush era tale, Chena trail Alaska, frontier hardship, classic adventure fiction, public domain short story

In the frozen reaches of Alaska, two travelers on the Chena trail discover a lonely cabin and a final request left by its dying occupant. As winter tightens its grip and the settlements remain distant, the encounter tests the difference between hardship and honor. A spare, atmospheric tale of frontier endurance, moral choice, and unexpected grace in the silent wilderness.

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Salt of the Earth

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • May 3, 1918
Keywords: classic Western short story, Western fiction, W. C. Tuttle, frontier humor, Old West tall tale, cowboy comedy, American frontier, con men and grifters, gold prospecting, pulp adventure

In the sun-baked ruins of Painted Post—a desert outpost that boasts a single saloon, a shuttered store, and a population of four idle, fast-talking prospectors—survival depends less on striking gold than on outtalking the next man. The quartet scrapes by on bad whiskey, worthless claims, and tall tales, always alert for a mark worth fleecing. So when two outlandishly dressed strangers wander in flush with cash, trailing burros packed with rocking chairs and garden tools, the locals scent the easiest fortune they'll ever make. They hatch a scheme to "salt" a barren mine and sell it to the greenhorns at a tidy profit. But on this frontier, appearances run deep and the distance between the swindler and the swindled is shorter than anyone reckons.

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Silver .41

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • November 30, 1925
Keywords: classic western fiction, Western mystery, vintage pulp Western, ranch country suspense, humorous Western, Moon River valley, frontier detective story, counterfeit money mystery, Old West lawman, cowboy crime fiction

Newly elected sheriff “Skeeter Bill” Sarg is still finding his footing in dusty Moon River County when a government detective brings word of counterfeit silver dollars traced to the valley. With his sharp-tongued deputy Kaintuck Kennedy at his side, Skeeter must navigate cattle-town politics, wary ranchers, old rivalries, and a trail of strange clues that soon turns far darker than bad money. Blending frontier humor, mystery, and hard-edged Western atmosphere, this tale follows an unlikely lawman as he learns that justice on the range often hides in the smallest details.

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Clean Crazy

Tuttle, W. C. (author)
The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine) • May 18, 1918
Keywords: mistaken identity western, W. C. Tuttle, early 20th century pulp fiction, cowboy comedy, comic Western short story, public domain Western fiction, frontier slapstick, Montana ranch humor, ranch dance story, American archival fiction

In W. C. Tuttle’s comic Western tale, a simple plan to look presentable for a ranch dance sends Hen Peck and Telescope Tolliver into a sunbaked Montana misadventure. Set among cowboys, creek beds, cattle, goats, and a country posse, the story turns frontier life into a cascade of mistaken identity and slapstick humiliation. Told in lively dialect with dry wit and archival charm, this public-domain range comedy captures the rowdy humor of early twentieth-century pulp Western fiction.