Talk:The Devil's Dooryard
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| Edition: | Extracted from Adventure magazine, May 1 1921, pp. 149-170. |
| Source: | https://archive.org/details/AdventureV029N0319210503 |
| Contributor(s): | ragpicker |
| Notes: | Title illustration omitted. The "Author's Note" is from the Camp-Fire section of the magazine, p. 173; the "introduction" before it is by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, the editor then. |
| Proofreaders: | ragcleaner |
Author's Note edit
WILL those few of you who do not like W. C. Tuttle’s humorous stories please read the following? It contains a bit of news for you.
I estimate that some ninety per cent. of you would go on strike at once if W. C. Tuttle’s stories no longer appeared in our magazine. The remaining ten per cent. or five per cent. or two per cent. don’t happen to be reached by “Tut’s” brand of humor. May I call to the attention of these few the fact that Mr. Tuttle has begun writing straight Western fiction, in which humor plays a very minor part? Try this one. Here are the facts from which part of it was built:
I wrote the local color of this tale from a location in Montana, which we always called the “Big Blowout.” Of all the prospectors, hunters, etc., that have pesticated around that country I think I am the only one ever to find the cave. It was the remains of an old crater, which seemed to have separated from a common center and blown out both sides of the mountain, making a cave all the way through wide enough to allow a man to walk through. There was no trail, and the sharp rocks made hard walking. Both ends were masked from above and below, and I always thought it would make an ideal place to hide out if the sheriff ever got peeved at me.
The idea of an outsider keeping up a feud between two outfits was really done in Montana, although there were no killings, and the outrider died a few years ago with his boots off.—Tut.