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100 1 _aTuttle, W. C.
_q(Wilbur C.),
_d1883-1969
245 1 0 _aPrecedents in Piperock
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 November 3, 1917 issue of Adventure magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-21
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _aPrecedents in Piperock by W. C. Tuttle is a humorous Western short story written in the early 20th century. It follows a rowdy cow-town’s attempt at a “safe and sane” Fourth of July celebration—a speech, a balloon ascension, and a baseball game—that predictably erupts into comic bedlam. Told by genial cowhand Ike Harper, the tale tracks Sheriff Magpie Simpkins’s reformist plans colliding with the antics of hard-drinking pranksters Dirty Shirt Jones and Scenery Sims. Judge Steele’s big oration is derailed when the balloon, sabotaged by the pair, drags the speaker’s platform down the street and knocks Ike cold. Revived, Ike is roped into umpiring the Seven-A vs. Triangle ballgame despite not knowing the rules, while the gin-soaked judge quietly nudges calls in favor of his bets. Mishaps pile up: a dog mauls the ball, Weinie Lopp smashes it in half, and Ike declares a ludicrous final score of “one and a half to one.” Chaos crescendos as Dirty and Scenery hitch a wagon to the balloon, hauling Ike along until he bails out in the hills. There he finds the ruined balloonist and, out of battered conscience, pays him the disputed stake money—only to be pelted with a rock when he repeats the hated phrase “safe and sane.” (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York, NY: The Ridgway Company, 1917
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aBalloon ascensions -- Fiction
653 _aBaseball -- Fiction
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 November 3, 1917 issue of Adventure magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/PU/ADV_1917_11_03.pdf
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78719
999 _c119437
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