Book Catalog
Blame It on Brother Bill
In W. C. Tuttle’s raucous Western comedy, the woman-shy rancher Jay Bird Whittaker and his Cross-J cowboys find their quiet lives upended by a misread letter, a reckless telegram, and the rumored arrival of two mysterious women from Montana. Set amid the dust, bravado, and comic chaos of Paradise, the story skewers cowboy heroics, small-town ceremony, and romantic imagination with fast-talking frontier wit. A lively tale of mistaken identity and ranch-house mayhem, it captures the tall-tale humor of early twentieth-century Western fiction.
The Catspaw of Piperock
In the frost-bitten frontier town of Piperock, a sudden wave of remorse strikes the irrepressible duo of Dirty Shirt Jones and Scenery Sims—but their road to redemption is anything but straight and narrow. Narrator Ike Harper watches helplessly as a harebrained scheme to improve the local church spirals into a riotous chain of misadventures involving a cantankerous camel, a runaway automobile, and a very ill-tempered steer. W. C. Tuttle's holiday yarn crackles with deadpan wit and the warmth of a tight-knit community where chaos and good intentions are practically indistinguishable. A rowdy, laugh-out-loud celebration of the Wild West at Christmastime.
Bad and Mad
When a seasoned outlaw stumbles upon his twin brother—the sheriff of Oro City—at a remote desert water hole, a tense standoff quickly spirals into a deadly game of identity and deception. With the law's badge now in his possession, the outlaw rides boldly into town to play a role he was never meant to fill, only to discover that nothing about his brother's life is quite what it seemed. W. C. Tuttle's sharp-tongued tale of mistaken identity and frontier irony delivers a twist ending that strikes with the force of a desert sun.
The Curse of Drink
In the raucous cowtown of San Pablo, a church benefit play promises culture, charity, and a grand moral lesson—but with cowpunchers Peewee Parker and Hozie Sykes pressed into service, the stage becomes a battleground of bruised egos, bad acting, and frontier chaos. W. C. Tuttle’s comic Western tale turns amateur theatricals into a riot of saloon humor, small-town rivalry, and slapstick disaster. Told in a lively vernacular voice, this archival short story captures the absurdity and exuberance of early twentieth-century pulp Western comedy.
When East Meets West
In the rough-and-ready town of Piperock, a newly formed Chamber of Commerce sets out to prove that civilization has finally arrived on the frontier. With a secondhand menagerie, a pageant of progress, and a rivalry with neighboring Paradise, civic pride soon becomes a comic trial of nerves for Ike Harper and Dirty Shirt Jones. Told in a lively vernacular voice, this Western farce captures the absurd collision of frontier bravado, small-town ambition, and the unpredictable march of modernity.