Book Catalog
A Bull Movement in Yellow Horse
In the unruly frontier town of Yellow Horse, two wandering cowboys stumble into a spectacle far larger than they bargained for. When a stranded circus elephant named Frederick the First enters their lives, curiosity, bravado, and bad judgment set off a chain of comic Western chaos. W. C. Tuttle’s lively tale blends slapstick adventure, frontier tall-talk, and old-time magazine humor in a boisterous portrait of men, beasts, and towns pushed well beyond their limits.
Fires of Fate
On the lawless Canadian–Montana border, Montana cowpuncher Bud Conley has traded his saddle for the scarlet jacket of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police—until a single drink of doctored whisky in Monk Magee's Kingsburg hotel leaves him disgraced, discharged, and the prime suspect in a scandal he cannot remember. Stripped of his uniform but not his nerve, Bud rides out alone toward the very nest of outlaws that framed him, determined to clear his name and break a town no Mountie has yet been able to crack. When the next officer sent into Kingsburg turns up dead in the street and Bud's own revolver is found beside a rifled safe, the case against him hardens from disgrace into something far blacker. With a vengeful half-breed gambler on his trail and the woman he loves convinced of his guilt, Bud must walk the knife-edge between badge and outlaw to deliver the kind of justice the law alone cannot reach. W. C. Tuttle's hard-riding border tale pits one ex-cowpuncher against a town built on smuggled whisky, stolen cattle, and the long memory of the Mounted.
According to Ng Loy
On the snowbound forks of Trinity Creek, three unlikely partners—an aging Chinese prospector, a stoic Swede, and a quick-tongued Irishman—find their fortunes bound together by a small carved ivory elephant said to bring luck and happiness to its owner. When Lars Anderson and Jimmy Mulcahy stumble half-frozen into Ng Loy's tiny cabin during a killing blizzard, the old miner takes them in, shares his claim, and offers them his most treasured talisman. But fortune is a fickle dealer, and when the charm later goes missing, suspicion poisons the bond between the three friends and threatens to undo what fate has so improbably built. W. C. Tuttle weaves superstition, hardship, and quiet wisdom into a meditation on luck, loyalty, and the cost of mistrust. First published in Adventure magazine in 1923, the story is a classic of the Northern frontier tradition.
Tippecanoe and Cougars Two
High in the mountains above Piperock, prospectors Ike Harper and Magpie Simpkins are minding their own business when a sputtering automobile climbs the road to their hillside cabin, carrying the most absent-minded pair the West has ever seen: "Tippecanoe" Seeley, a guide who can't remember his own boots, and Professor Aloysius Van Fleet, a bespectacled tenderfoot bent on filming wild cougars with a moving-picture camera. Add a long-suffering wife, a wide-eyed daughter, and a fastidious English lord to the party, and the stage is set for a tangle of ropes, claws, dust, and dialect-laced disaster. Narrated in the salty vernacular of a cowboy who has clearly seen too much, W. C. Tuttle's tall tale of the Montana high country is pure frontier slapstick from start to finish. First published in Adventure magazine in 1921, it remains a vintage gem of pulp-era Western humor.
Fifty-Fifty with Bonnie
When a letter goes astray and two refined Eastern ladies arrive at the Seven-A ranch with six trunks and grand expectations, the ornery cowhands of Hank Padden's outfit find themselves on the receiving end of a misunderstanding nobody bargained for. Chuck Warner, a bow-legged jokester with a gift for stretching the truth, can't resist spinning a few tall tales to amuse himself and rattle his trail-mates—particularly the long, slow-witted Swede left in charge while the boss is away. As schemes pile atop schemes and the prospect of a dozen marriageable girls looms on the horizon, the lonesomeness of ranch life gives way to a roaring tangle of mistaken identities, hollered conversations, and sagebrush mischief. Set on the Montana range of a bygone era, this rollicking yarn from pulp-fiction favorite W. C. Tuttle delivers cowboy comedy at full gallop.