Review of Adventure – March, 1940

Inspired by a post on James Reasoner’s Rough Edges blog. Cover by Wesley Neff, interior illustrations by multiple illustrators.

Adventure, March 1940 - cover illustration by Wesley Neff

Origin stories: Hashknife Hartley by W.C. Tuttle

 

[This is a slightly modified excerpt from an article in the The Pittsburgh Press of Jul 23, 1950.]

 

W.C. Tuttle, author of the “Hashknife Hartley” stories, admits that the idea for the “Hashknife Hartley” Western adventures was born of a blister but the character is the composite of two men Tuttle knew some forty years ago.

Tuttle wrote his first “Hashknife” story, titled A Whizzer on Willer Creek (Adventure, August 3, 1920), in Los Angeles —while mad at the blister on his: foot caused by pounding the streets seeking a hotel room. The plot for the story was in his mind, but he had no hero— until he remembered his two old friends.

So “Hashknife” was evolved from the personality of one, and the physique of the other. Prior to this story Tuttle had written humorous westerns, without the highlighted adventure themes!

W.C. Tuttle and the Nobel prize for literature - what's the connection?

Answer to the question I asked earlier: W.C. Tuttle and the Nobel prize for literature - what's the connection?

In the Nobel Prize winning author V.S. Naipaul’s book, A House for Mr. Biswas, the protagonist’s brother in law, and one of the main characters, is a reader of W.C. Tuttle. Throughout the book, he is referred to as WC Tuttle, his wife as Mrs. Tuttle, and their children as the Tuttles.

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