Muley's Morals: Restored Classics to Go Edition

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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 habits, frontier hardship, and unlikely friendship. Along the way they meet oddball figures like Pole Cat Perkins, a skunk-collector, and the ridiculous Sheriff Bill McFee, who carries a hammer instead of a gun and becomes an easy target for their teasing. As money grows scarcer, the men drift toward bigger temptation. A torn note hinting at a window, dynamite, and "tonight" suggests a bank job, and the town's uneasy atmosphere deepens when old man Whittaker temporarily takes over the bank amid rumors of the Silver Bend robbery. What follows is a riot of slapstick, hidden schemes, and double-crosses: a brawl in the saloon, a disastrous saddle prank, a secret wait behind the woodpile, and a robbery plan that collapses into skunk-scented chaos. Through it all, Tuttle turns greed, revenge, and bad luck into a fast, funny frontier farce. 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-her...

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W. C. "Wilbur C." Tuttle was an American writer whose career flourished in the early twentieth century, a period when magazines, newspapers, and popular fiction were shaping a distinctly modern reading public. Working with a keen sense of humor and a gift for lively storytelling, he became especially known for writing about the American West and for bringing to life the everyday struggles, quirks, and resilience of ordinary people. His fiction often blended wit, adventure, and a sharply observant eye for character, which helped make him a popular and widely read voice in his time. Tuttle's best work captures the tensions between rugged individualism and community, pride and practicality, satire and affection, themes that still feel fresh today because they speak to human vanity, perseverance, and the need to laugh at ourselves. What gives his writing lasting value is not only its entertainment but also its vivid record of a changing America, where frontier myth and modern life met in memorable ways. Readers today can still find in Tuttle's work a warm, comic, and humane perspective that rewards anyone interested in Western fiction, classic humor, or stories about flawed but endearing people trying to make sense of the world.

W. C. "Wilbur C." Tuttle was an American writer whose career flourished in the early twentieth century, a period when magazines, newspapers, and popular fiction were shaping a distinctly modern reading public. Working with a keen sense of humor and a gift for lively storytelling, he became especi...

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