This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Chuck Warner is a lovable liar, a hard-drinking cowboy whose latest scheme is so outrageous even his friends can barely follow it. When he decides that a local eccentric called Polecat Perkins can be "promoted" into the missing brother of a millionaire and used to claim a reward, the result is a frontier caper powered by bluff, greed, and pure comic nerve. Polecat, stubborn, plainspoken, and deeply suspicious of comfort or respectability, agrees to play along only because the money sounds useful. What follows is a riotous journey from dugout to train car to city hotel, where rough cowpunchers collide with modern travel, police raids, suspicious strangers, and the rules of civilized life. Gunfire, mistaken identities, jail, automobiles, and graveyard chaos keep turning every plan into slapstick disaster. Yet beneath the drunken banter and absurd mishaps, the story celebrates cowboy independence and the freedom of the West. In the end, Polecat's practical obstinacy and one perfectly timed detail bring the whole millionaire mystery to a delightfully anticlimactic close.

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Tuttle, W. C.

W. C. Tuttle, born Wilbur C. Tuttle in the late nineteenth century, came of age during a period when the American West was still being mythologized in newspapers, magazines, and popular fiction. He built his career as a writer of lively Western stories, especially during the early twentieth century, and became widely admired for his ability to mix action, humor, and sharp characterization. Over time, he produced a substantial body of work that helped define the entertaining, fast-moving style of the magazine Western, often focusing on cowboys, drifters, small-town schemers, and the comic absurdities of frontier life. His fiction stands out for its warm wit, brisk pacing, and affection for ordinary people trying to make their way in a rough and changing world. Beneath the adventure and comedy, Tuttle often explored themes of loyalty, resilience, good-natured deception, and the tension between individual freedom and social order, concerns that still feel fresh today in stories about identity, community, and survival. His legacy lies in helping shape the popular Western as a genre that could be both exciting and funny, not merely heroic or grim, and in showing that frontier tales could reveal as much about human nature as about guns and horseback chases. Readers who enjoy classic Western fiction, regional Americana, or stories with a playful, human touch will find Tuttle especially rewarding.