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100 1 _aHumphreys, Ray
245 1 2 _aA knife in time
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from the November 7, 1925 issue of Western Story Magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-08
508 _aRoger Frank and Sue Clark
520 _aA knife in time by Ray Humphreys is a Western short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on frontier mule-skinning, workplace rivalry, and a public wagon-race where a scorned driver’s knife and nerve become crucial. Tom Morgan, a slight but gifted mule skinner, is mocked by fellow teamsters for wearing a sheath knife, despite the wagon boss McCarthy valuing his skill. When the Q B outfit brings five polished hitches to a rodeo race overseen by the owner, Ashton, the event turns dangerous: Ashton’s borrowed sorrel mule bolts, dragging him by a caught stirrup straight into the path of the racing wagons. Morgan leaps from his seat, scrambles along his moving hitch, mounts a leader, and slices that mule free to chase the runaway. His driverless team collides with another, killing a mule and injuring a driver, but Morgan presses on, transfers to the sorrel at speed, and cuts Ashton loose just in time. In the aftermath, Morgan explains he carries the knife after once losing mules he might have saved; Ashton, grateful and alive, ends the crew’s prejudice and promotes Morgan to assistant wagon boss. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Street & Smith Corporation, 1925
653 _aShort stories
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aMuleteers -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the November 7, 1925 issue of Western Story Magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/western-story-magazine-v-056-n-02-1925-11-07
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76839
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