The tin god of Twisted River

W. C. Tuttle 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.