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100 1 _aTuttle, W. C.
_q(Wilbur C.),
_d1883-1969
245 1 0 _aFifty-fifty with Bonnie
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
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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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from the April, 1917 issue of Adventure magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-07
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _aFifty-fifty with Bonnie by W. C. Tuttle is a humorous Western short story written in the early 20th century. It playfully satirizes ranch life through a whirlwind of misunderstandings, Eastern reformist zeal, and a cowboy’s inventive lies that set a whole outfit on its ear. Two determined Eastern ladies, Miss Clarissa Vanderberg and Miss Genevieve Elberfield, arrive at the Seven-A ranch by mistake, expecting prior arrangements; prankish cowhand Chuck Warner covers the mix-up with tall tales that convince everyone of everything—from a pending sale of the ranch to a supposed marriage between foreman Swede Johnson and an Indian woman, Potlatch Annie. Pushed by “good deeds,” the ladies have Annie and her children hauled to the ranch, just as owner Hank Padden returns to explosive confusion. Matters peak when Chief Running Wolf storms in and an accidental shot sends the whole crowd scrambling. The sheriff then arrests Padden on a warrant the ladies swore after believing more of Chuck’s stories, until Johnny Myers of the Triangle outfit arrives and reveals the women meant to visit his ranch for a schoolgirls’ outing. With the blunder exposed, the women prepare to move on, while Chuck slips away on a westbound cattle car, cheerfully musing on the havoc his “fifty-fifty” with Bonnie has wrought. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York, NY: The Ridgway Company, 1917
653 _aShort stories
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aHumorous stories
653 _aMontana -- Fiction
653 _aRanch life -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the April, 1917 issue of Adventure magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/ADV_1917_04.pdf
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78627
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