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100 1 _aTuttle, W. C.
_q(Wilbur C.),
_d1883-1969
245 1 0 _aFires of fate
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from the Early October, 1923 issue of Short Stories magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-07
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _aFires of fate by W. C. Tuttle is a Northwest Mounted Police adventure novella written in the early 20th century. Set along the Canadian–U.S. border, it centers on bootlegging, frontier lawlessness, and a cowboy-turned-Mountie caught in a frame-up amid a town ruled by outlaws. Bud Conley, a Montana cowpuncher serving with the Mounted, is disgraced when Monk Magee and the half-breed Joe Burgoyne dope his drink, plant him beside a similarly drugged Marie Beaudet, and make it appear he’s broken the law—and her honor. After two policemen, McKay and Cree George, are gunned down in Kingsburg, Bud rides out on his own, is captured, escapes a locked cabin by setting it ablaze, and stumbles onto Magee’s hidden underground saloon beneath the hotel. He blackouts the room, fights Burgoyne through spreading flames, and flees with the unconscious Joe in a runaway wagon—unwittingly rescuing Norah Clarey, Joe’s intended kidnap victim, who is hidden under canvas. Back at Eagle’s Nest, Joe lands in jail and his boasting exposes the whole scheme: he led the gang, spied on the post, framed Bud with Marie and a stolen red coat, and robbed Beaudet using Bud’s gun. With Kingsburg’s den wrecked, Bud is cleared, welcomed back, and—having never signed his resignation—stays to make good. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBungay, Suffolk: The Chaucer Press, 1923
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aNorth West Mounted Police (Canada) -- Fiction
653 _aCanadian-American Border Region -- Fiction
700 1 _aBrown, Paul,
_d1893-1958
830 0 _aProduced from the Early October, 1923 issue of Short Stories magazine.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78629
999 _c119347
_d119347