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100 1 _aTuttle, W. C.
_q(Wilbur C.),
_d1883-1969
245 1 0 _aIke Harper's historical holiday
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 Mid-October, 1920 issue of Adventure magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-13
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _aIke Harper's historical holiday by W. C. Tuttle is a humorous Western short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on a chaotic Fourth of July celebration staged by three rival frontier towns, turning civic pride, bad history, and worse planning into a free-for-all of pratfalls and gunfire. The story follows easygoing cowhand Ike Harper, dragooned by Sheriff Magpie Simpkins into helping manage a joint Independence Day fête at Dancing Prairie with delegations from Piperock, Paradise, and Curlew. Each town insists its own “founder” of the holiday—Lincoln, Washington, or even Custer—and stages slapdash living tableaux: a rail-splitting “Lincoln,” a wildly anachronistic Custer scene that forces Ike into a Pocahontas getup, and a botched “Washington crossing the Delaware.” Gunshots, rope tricks gone wrong, a mounted brass band on broncs, collapsing platforms, and a mass dunking in the river turn the pageant into bedlam. Battered survivors finally ask Ike to settle who started the holiday; he drily picks Jonah—since they’ve had “a whale of a time.” (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York, NY: The Ridgway Company, 1920
653 _aShort stories
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aFourth of July -- 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-October, 1920 issue of Adventure magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/ADV_1920_01_18.pdf
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78676
999 _c119394
_d119394