WC Tuttle
August 21, 2011 6:30 PM Subscribe
Looking for short stories by W. C. Tuttle. He published in pulp westerns and Argosy from about 1915 to 1945. He was also serialized in the Boston Globe in the early 1930s I am looking for some of his short stories either in reprints or original publications. Have been looking in Gutenberg, Google Books (Love GooReader!!), various ebook sources, Black Dog Books and Bison Books with no hits. A list of his work is here Can you suggest any sources?
Check the university libraries, where you can also scan and email them to yourself.
posted by brujita at 7:14 PM on August 21, 2011
posted by brujita at 7:14 PM on August 21, 2011
Best answer: I've noticed from the list that he was from Glendive Montana Terrotory. You might want to ask both the folks at the Montana Historical Society, the Glendive Library and you might want to check this odd little B&B that I stayed in once out that way. They have a library in their period home and might have some leads on where you could find writing from a local guy.
It also looks like the Western History/Genealogy Dept. of the Denver Public Library has a small folder with some of his newspaper clippings along with a story list which it looks like you may already have.
Also you didn't mention Open Library. It looks like Tuttle's work spans the time where his earlier stuff might be public domain. I looked there and found Spawn of the Desert and Hashknife of Stormy River ["checkoutable" with a free account there]. There's also short stories for kids that you can read in Boys Life magazine, the Reddy Brant series. [1, 2, 3, there are a lot more as near as I can tell]. Here's another story for kids he wrote for The Boy Scout's Yearbook.
posted by jessamyn at 7:25 PM on August 21, 2011
It also looks like the Western History/Genealogy Dept. of the Denver Public Library has a small folder with some of his newspaper clippings along with a story list which it looks like you may already have.
Also you didn't mention Open Library. It looks like Tuttle's work spans the time where his earlier stuff might be public domain. I looked there and found Spawn of the Desert and Hashknife of Stormy River ["checkoutable" with a free account there]. There's also short stories for kids that you can read in Boys Life magazine, the Reddy Brant series. [1, 2, 3, there are a lot more as near as I can tell]. Here's another story for kids he wrote for The Boy Scout's Yearbook.
posted by jessamyn at 7:25 PM on August 21, 2011
Response by poster: Thanks Iris. This is going to be a Christmas gift for a relative.
Thank you jessamyn for the advice, and more important, showing me that my Google Books (with GooReader) search techniques were sloppy. Your suggestions would have been available to me in Google Books if multiple searches had been done with and without periods in Tuttle's name
Ray
posted by Raybun at 12:20 PM on August 23, 2011
Thank you jessamyn for the advice, and more important, showing me that my Google Books (with GooReader) search techniques were sloppy. Your suggestions would have been available to me in Google Books if multiple searches had been done with and without periods in Tuttle's name
Ray
posted by Raybun at 12:20 PM on August 23, 2011
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posted by Iris Gambol at 6:52 PM on August 21, 2011