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100 1 _aTuttle, W. C.
_q(Wilbur C.),
_d1883-1969
245 1 0 _aCows is cows
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 Mid-November, 1917 issue of Adventure magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-06
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York, NY: The Ridgway Company, 1917
653 _aShort stories
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aCattle stealing -- Fiction
653 _aSimpkins, Magpie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
653 _aHarper, Ike (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
653 _aPiperock (Montana : Imaginary place) -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the Mid-November, 1917 issue of Adventure magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Adventure/IXofg1QEZjsC?hl=en
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78614
999 _c119332
_d119332