02568cam a22003853u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000430011324500170015626400510017330000470022433600260027133700260029733800360032349000700035950000310042950800540046052011920051453400670170665300180177365300200179165300310181165300550184265300500189765300520194783000700199985600700206985600430213978614UtSlPG20260610134825.0mcr n260607r20261917utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aTuttle, W. C.q(Wilbur C.),d1883-196910aCows is cows 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from the Mid-November, 1917 issue of Adventure magazine.  aRelease date is 2026-05-06  aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)  aCows is cows by W. C. Tuttle is a humorous Western short story written in the early 20th century. It follows a comic tangle of cattle rustling, frontier justice, and mistaken identity, with a crafty sleuth working under cover to expose the real thieves.

In the cow town of Piperock, Sheriff Magpie Simpkins and his deputy Ike Harper watch four quarrelsome ranchers—Hank Padden, Zeb Abernathy, Johnny Myers, and Scenery Sims—hire a swaggering “detective” named Spade Wilson to stop rustlers. He promptly hauls each of them in on suspicious, neatly planted evidence, while a lanky drifter calling himself Obadiah Ezekiel Moses Brown, the self-styled “Bringer of Light,” wanders the range on a burro named Lodestone. A chaotic courtroom scene ends when Lodestone bursts in carrying two bound men, and the truth surfaces: Obadiah is the real Spade Wilson, the redheaded sleuth is an impostor, and the genuine rustlers—led by notorious Kirk Kelso—have been framing the locals with doctored brands and fresh hides. With the culprits unmasked and the town sheepish, the tale closes on Scenery’s comic refrain, “Cows is cows.” (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York, NY: The Ridgway Company, 1917  aShort stories  aWestern stories  aCattle stealing -- Fiction  aSimpkins, Magpie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction  aHarper, Ike (Fictitious character) -- Fiction  aPiperock (Montana : Imaginary place) -- Fiction 0aProduced from the Mid-November, 1917 issue of Adventure magazine.4 uhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Adventure/IXofg1QEZjsC?hl=en40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78614