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100 1 _aTuttle, W. C.
_q(Wilbur C.),
_d1883-1969
245 1 0 _aPeace medicine
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
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from the May 10, 1923 issue of Adventure magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-21
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _a"Peace medicine" by W. C. Tuttle is a Western adventure novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Peace River Parker, a wrongly branded ex-con gunman, who returns to Chinook Valley just as a ruthless scheme by Clell Danert and Jefferson Crane aims to force sheep through Poncho Pass and spark a range war. With rancher “Cross L” Marshall and his daughter Jess at the heart of the threatened cattle paradise, loyalties, reputations, and livelihoods collide on a violent frontier. The opening of the novel lays out Chinook Valley’s cattle Eden and its tight-knit power structure before pivoting to personal stakes: Danert presses a weary Jess for marriage while foreman Bart Farley distrusts him, and the valley’s past scandal—Peace Parker’s conviction on Crane’s testimony—hangs over all. In Tarp City, Crane secretly arranges to flood the valley with sheep, planting a small night wedge to open the way for a vast herd, and an intermediary hires a herder—unwittingly recruiting Peace, just freed from prison. Peace reaches town after tossing an abusive stage driver, survives a shootout in a restaurant using Danert’s gun, sizes up the sheep plot, and publicly humiliates Crane. Shadowed by Crane’s gunmen, he avoids contacting the Marshalls until Jess stops him; he warns her to ride home and alert her father. A street brawl erupts, Peace disarms Jud Evers, steals Danert’s horse, and races for Poncho Pass, where Perez and Wylie seize Jess; a rifle shot drops Peace’s horse and sends him tumbling into a ravine, leaving the crisis poised on a cliffhanger. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: The Ridgway Company, 1923
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
653 _aEx-convicts -- Fiction
653 _aMystery fiction
653 _aRanch life -- Fiction
700 1 _aSchwieder, Arthur,
_d1884-1965
830 0 _aProduced from the May 10, 1923 issue of Adventure magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/ADV_1923_05_10.pdf
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78718
999 _c119436
_d119436