The Sheriff of Tonto City could expect anything to come out of the night in Wild Horse Valley—even an idea...

Today's story is "Henry Goes Prehistoric" by W C Tuttle. It appeared in the January 25th, 1948 issue of "Short Stories" magazine on pages 48 to 70.

W C Tuttle (November 11, 1883, Montana – June 6, 1969, Los Angeles County, California) was an American writer who sold more than 1000 magazine stories and dozens of novels, almost all of which were westerns.

Tuttle wrote mainly for pulp magazines; his main market was Adventure magazine. He also wrote for other publications such as Argosy, Short Stories, Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine, Field & Stream, West, New Western Magazine and Exciting Western.

His best known character was Hashknife Hartley, who along with his friend Sleepy Stevens, served as unofficial detectives solving crimes on the ranches where they worked as cowboys. Other characters Tuttle created included Cultus Collins, Sad Sontag, and Henry Harrison Conroy, a former vaudeville actor turned sheriff.

In 1950-1951, Tuttle was narrator of the old-time radio series Hashknife Hartley, which featured adaptations of his stories.

He was also a screenwriter hailing back to the silent era. He wrote the screenplays for 52 films between 1915 and 1945.

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