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100 1 _aHumphreys, Ray
245 1 4 _aThe old "yaller" shirt
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from the August 1927 issue of Cowboy Stories magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-10
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _aThe old "yaller" shirt by Ray Humphreys is a Western short story written in the late 1920s. It centers on a rodeo bronc rider whose stubborn loyalty to a worn yellow shirt stirs conflict, tests character in the arena, and ultimately signals love and good fortune. A towering bronc buster, Thad Sowers, refuses his boss John O’Day’s order to replace his faded yellow silk shirt, even when threatened with dismissal. For his supposed last ride, a rancher named Bernard Harley brings a notorious gray outlaw and insists the “man in the yaller shirt” ride it. Thad endures a brutal, spectacular bucking battle; the horse twice smashes into the rail, breaks its neck, and dies, while Thad, already badly hurt with a broken leg and ribs, never quits the saddle. Harley admits the bronc was tormented to hate yellow. Shaken, O’Day retracts the firing, pledges Thad a permanent place—and the right to wear the shirt. It’s then revealed the shirt was a good-luck gift from O’Day’s daughter, June; the two declare their love as the doctor assures Thad will live. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Climax Publishing Corporation, 1927
653 _aShort stories
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aLove stories
653 _aColorado -- Fiction
653 _aRodeos -- Fiction
700 1 _aEggenhofer, Nicholas,
_d1897-1985
700 1 _aSoare, William Fulton,
_d1896-1940
830 0 _aProduced from the August 1927 issue of Cowboy Stories magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/COW_1927_08.pdf
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78412
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