W. C. Tuttle's Western comedy drops Hen Peck and Chuck Warner into the dusty boredom of Paradise, where a trainload of trouble arrives in the form of enraged performer Pedro Adonis Ferretti and his trained ape, Ajax. What begins as a drunken curiosity turns into a townwide farce when Ajax proves he can smoke, shake hands, wear clothes, carry a six-gun, and behave with unnerving frontier confidence. Soon he is wrecking saloons, frightening gamblers, and leaving behind a trail of broken furn...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. At dawn in the rough cow town of Moon Flats, a travel-stained stranger steps off the train and quietly claims his name: Shelby "Shell" Romaine, recently out of prison and already shadowed by old suspicions. Reunited with Newt Bowie and Monte Barnes, he finds the range unchanged in its hard ways, though a new outlaw terror—the black-clad Black Rider—now dominates every rumor. On the Diamond-S ranch, heir Cal ...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In the drought-stricken Bunch Grass valley, where heat, hard labor, and cattle rustling have worn the JHF ranch to the bone, John "the Baptist" Fann and his wife, Ma, face a crisis that cuts deeper than loss. Bob Kern and Splinter Martin uncover the truth: Barr Wyeth, now tied to the Lightning ranch and married into the family, has been stealing cattle from JHF, and the evidence threatens to expose a betraya...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. On a bitter Christmas Eve in a snowbound western town, a hard-faced drifter known as Wanderin' Jones sits alone in a saloon, looking every bit the weathered old cowhand the world believes him to be. He is silent, wary, and marked by years of wandering—but the sound of a church bell and a chance conversation about a family quarrel stir something long buried inside him. When Wanderin' follows a stranger's dire...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Peace River Parker is the kind of cowhand who looks plain enough to be overlooked, yet thinks fast enough to outplay almost anyone around him. On the rugged Cross L ranch and in the rough town of Tarp City, he moves through a world of cattle, sheep, saloons, and grudges where a careless word can start a fight and old betrayals still shape the present. He is engaged to Jess Marshall, but his quiet self-doubt ...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In Stormy River County, a rough Western town where poker runs late, cattle outfits feud, and gossip travels faster than a horse at full gallop, Sheriff Pat Lynch is already weary before the real trouble begins. His deputy Oscar Johnson, black-suited, red-tied, and hopelessly accident-prone, has just come back from wrecking the sheriff's buggy on a disastrous outing with Annie Hall, setting the stage for the ...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In the hard-edged Chinook Valley, cattlemen rule a secluded empire where loyalty is fierce, grudges run deep, and every handshake may hide a threat. Jess Marshall rides home beside Clell Danert, a polished outsider pressing for marriage, while her father, Cross L. Marshall, and foreman Bart Farley both sense danger in his smooth manners and secret motives. Yet Jess's heart is still tied to Peace River Parker...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Rain, rustling, and gunfire drive this hard-edged Western mystery, where two weather-beaten cowboys step out of the storm and into the polished world of the wealthy Lanphers. Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens are hired to solve the disappearance of Circle Cross cattle in the dangerous Ghost Hills country, a case already marked by dead investigators, a murdered detective, and a feud tangled with money, pri...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. On the sun-blasted edge of the desert, Yallerstone Brown and his lanky prospector partner Taos Thompson rescue a half-dead wanderer and stumble into a far stranger adventure than any gold strike. Taos, a romantic drifter with a taste for newspapers and marriage ads, becomes fixated on a refined blonde woman seeking a "real Western man," and soon convinces Yallerstone to travel east for a match that promises ...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In Piperock, a rough frontier town determined to go "safe and sane" for the Fourth of July, civic pride collides with the same hard-drinking, hard-talking mischief it is meant to replace. Sheriff Ike Harper watches locals like Scenery Sims, Dirty Shirt Jones, Magpie Simpkins, Buck Masterson, Judge Steele, and Hank Padden debate speeches, baseball, a balloon ascension, and an evening dance, all while hinting ...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Henry Clay Peck and his three hard-luck companions—Muley Bowles, Telescope Tolliver, and Chuck Warner—stagger through the West on hunger, bluster, and bad decisions, tossed out of the Cross J ranch after a meal of stolen chickens. Their journey to Paradise is packed with rhyming insults, mock-heroic poems, and self-mocking jokes, giving W. C. Tuttle's western a rough-edged comic voice that delights in outlaw...

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Dobie Dalton is a puncher with a talent for bad luck, bad judgment, and surviving both with his pride half intact. In a series of comic frontier misadventures, he writes home to his friend Hank from Mesquite and Pyrites, blaming everyone but himself for a life tangled up with his difficult wife Emmeline, her sharp-tongued uncle Gabe Galesburg, and a parade of crooked bargains, misunderstandings, and bruising...