Skeeter Bill

Skeeter Bill is a horse-thief. An honest one, but a horse-thief, nonetheless. Ask him. He’ll tell you so himself. He and his pardner, an old, washed up, drunken Judge, somehow manage to clean up a mining town run by outlaws. Two novelettes of how to turn a spark into a flame.

The Spark of Skeeter Bill (1922) – The horse-thief who would not lie.
A novelette of eleven chapters.

Flames of the Storm (1922) – The cattle country — a sheep-herder up against it.
A novelette length story.

W. C. Tuttle (1883-1969) was born in Montana. He wrote more than 1000 magazine stories and dozens of novels, almost all of which were westerns. He wrote at least five or six series, but his best known one featured Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens, two wandering cowboys who served as unofficial detectives solving crimes on the ranches where they worked. Tuttle was also a screenwriter, and he wrote for 52 films between 1915 and 1945.

Skeeter Bill contains 5 illustrations.