W.C. Tuttle was one of the great pulp Western storytellers, known for mixing frontier action, mystery, dry humor, and colorful cowboy speech.In “Sticky Ropes,” newly elected sheriff Dusty Corbett faces a secret gang whose strange calling card spreads fear across Big Bear County. “The Loom of Lies” brings more tangled motives, sharp talk, and trouble on the range. In “Peace Medicine,” Tuttle adds another lively Western tale of danger, bluff, and hard choices.First published ...

When old cowboy Goober Glendon and his young partner Johnny Wells ride into Silver Bar, they only plan to find work at the Keno range. But a late-night poker game turns deadly when a drunken young man is accused of shooting a fellow ranch hand. Goober’s instincts tell him the boy was framed, and he secretly pockets the murder weapon to protect the son of his old friend, wealthy rancher Frank Austin.As Goober and Johnny arrive at the Star A ranch, they find the Austin family reeling...

Arriving in the town of Oreana to purchase stock, two wandering cowboys find themselves immediately embroiled in a local feud. A young orphan has been left destitute after his father's death, his ranch threatened by a foreclosure based on dubious debts held by a saloon owner.When the boy’s only ally is ambushed and a valuable herd of cattle vanishes, the newcomers step in to investigate. Facing down a hostile rancher and a corrupt gambler, the pair must rely on a mix of sharp shoot...

This collection gathers fast-moving Western short stories from the pulp era, set around mining camps, ranches, and rough-and-ready towns. W.C. Tuttle blends action, wit, and frontier problem-solving in tales where cowhands, lawmen, and drifters face hard choices and harder country. Contents include “Derelicts of the Hills,” “His Brother’s Keeper,” “The Catspaw of Piperock,” “Injuneered,” “Henry Goes Prehistoric,” and “Dancing Devil Range.”Written for magazines such as Adventure...

In When East Met West, W.C. Tuttle brings his signature blend of wit and Western action to the story of a polished Easterner who finds himself out of his element in the rugged frontier. When city manners collide with cowboy code, sparks—and laughter—fly. What starts as a culture clash becomes an unlikely alliance as both men confront local trouble, outlaws, and misunderstandings that can only be solved with grit, charm, and a whole lot of humor.With Tuttle’s trademark stor...

When a Modoc rancher’s cattle vanish overnight, the note he owes the local gambler comes due. Within days he is accused of train robbery, with the sheriff in the gambler’s pocket and the noose tightening fast.Out of the night ride two saddle-tramps with a knack for trouble — a long, lean Texan whose hunches always run true and his short, square-jawed sidekick. They drift into Modoc looking for nothing more than a hot meal and a soft bed, and ride straight into a frame-up that reach...

Once voted Adventure magazine's most popular author, W.C. Tuttle introduced the world to one of his longest-running—and most popular—series characters, Henry Harrison Conroy, in the pages of Argosy. Collected here are the next two novels: “The Sheriff of Tonto Town” and “Suspected by Henry.”

The railroad telegraph message said simply: HELP HOLDUP PRIVATE CAR HELP. The agent snapped to his feet and acted at once. He had seen the private car at the rear of that freight, and he knew well who James Worthington Steele was. Someone was robbing one of the most important men in the company!

W. C. Tuttle (November 11, 1883 – June 6, 1969) was an American writer who sold more than 1000 magazine stories and dozens of novels, almost all of which were westerns.

Amidst the dreary rain of San Francisco, a young woman on the brink of despair crosses paths with a lone cowboy from the desert. A violent incident forces them to flee together, clutching a suitcase that holds more than just clothes—it contains a ticket to a new identity and a destiny intertwined with a distant ranch.Arriving in the dusty town of Oreana, Arizona, they are drawn into a longstanding feud between cattle ranches, where old grudges and hidden wills dictate the fate of t...

A Story of the Whittling Sheriff of Mohave Wells, Buck Brady, who's always one step ahead, even when he's sitting down and whittling away an afternoon. Classic western action!

Hashknife Hartlely and his partner, two footloose cowpokes with a reputation for getting things done, are hired to look into the matter of disappearing cattle at the Circle Cross outfit.