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W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

1883–1969

Best known for lively Western stories filled with humor, mystery, and ranch-country adventure, this Montana-born writer created the popular cowboy sleuths Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens. He also worked in Hollywood, writing for films from the silent era into the 1940s.

39 Audiobooks

The taking of Cloudy McGee

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

The Morgan trail : a story of Hashknife Hartley

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Too much progress for Piperock

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Thicker than water : a story of Hashknife Hartley

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Tumbling river range

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Hidden blood

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Shotgun gold

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

The valley of lost herds

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

The keeper of Red Horse Pass

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Bluffer's luck

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Law Rustlers

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

The Devil's Dooryard

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Rodeo

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Two fares east

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

The Dead-Line

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

The Buckaroo of Blue Wells

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Dirty Work for Doughgod

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

When Oscar Went Wild

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Reputation

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

In self-defense

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Cinders

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

All Wool

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Flames of the Storm

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Tied Up for Tombstone

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Dough or Dynamite

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

The Color of His Boots

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Ajax, for example

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

A Man-Sized Pet

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Wise Men and a Mule

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Bearly Reasonable

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Spawn of the Desert

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Upside Down or Backwards

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Creepin' Tintypes

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Making Good for Muley

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Shepherds for Science

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Playing Safe in Piperock

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Loco or Love

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

Psychology and Copper

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

A Prevaricated Parade

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

About the author

Born in Glendive, Montana, on November 11, 1883, he became a prolific American writer whose work was centered largely on the Western. His fiction reached a wide audience in magazines and books, and he is especially remembered for the adventures of Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens, two cowboys who often found themselves untangling crimes as well as driving cattle.

Alongside his fiction career, he also wrote for the screen. Film credits associated with him span from the 1910s into the 1940s, showing how comfortably he moved between pulp storytelling and early Hollywood.

He died on June 6, 1969, in Los Angeles County, California. Today he remains a familiar name to readers who enjoy classic Western tales with fast pacing, dry wit, and a strong sense of frontier life.