Book Catalog
Blind Trails
In the mountain-locked cattle country of Chinook Valley, Peace River Parker is a respected cowpuncher whose quiet strength masks a hard-won past. When the polished newcomer Frank Campion buys into the valley and begins drawing attention at the Cross L ranch, old loyalties, rivalries, and suspicions stir beneath the surface. Blending frontier humor, romantic tension, and the threat of range violence, W. C. Tuttle’s “Blind Trails” captures a Western world where reputation, restraint, and honor ride close together.
Hashknife and the Fantom Riders
In the rain-slick streets of San Francisco, wandering cowpunchers Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens are hired to investigate a deadly mystery in Wyoming’s Ghost Hills. At the troubled Circle Cross ranch, cattle vanish without a trace, detectives turn up dead, and fear of the so-called phantom riders grips the range. Amid rustling, suspicion, racial prejudice, and a murder trial that divides the town of Wolf Wells, two sharp-witted drifters must follow a trail no one else dares to ride.
Magpie—Diplomat
When drifters Magpie Simpkins and Ike Harper ride into the frontier settlement of Pinto, they find its mayor, chief of police, and treasurer sitting forlorn on a pile of boulders—exiled from their own town by a scheme gone spectacularly wrong. What began as a clever fix to a civic problem has unraveled into a comedy of romantic deception, jealous wives, and loaded firearms. With Magpie's quick tongue and talent for back-country diplomacy, he attempts to untangle the mess—but peace, like gold, proves elusive on the frontier. A sharp and rollicking tale of frontier wit, marital chaos, and the perils of small-town politics, first published in Adventure magazine in July 1917.
Ike Harper’s Historical Holiday
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.
Honest to Doughgod
In W. C. Tuttle’s comic Western tale, three musically inclined cowpunchers from the Cross-J find their loyalties tested when a new schoolteacher arrives in Paradise. Hen Peck, Muley Bowles, and Telescope Tolliver stumble through romance, rivalry, poker, poetry, and frontier misunderstandings with more enthusiasm than wisdom. Told in lively cowboy dialect, this archival Western farce captures the rough humor, tall-tale charm, and antic spirit of early twentieth-century magazine fiction.