Border bred by W. C. Tuttle
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Border bred by W. C. Tuttle is a Western adventure short story written in the early 20th century. Its topic is border smuggling along the U.S.–Mexico line, centered on a kidnapping, a daring rescue, and frontier justice carried out by a determined boy. After border officer Dan Dixon is killed by a contraband driver, his fifteen-year-old son Dobie lives alone near the line and looks out for little Jane Langdon. When smugglers
led by Doc Carver and the Mexican chief Gonzales kidnap Jane to coerce her father Sam into running a major drug shipment, Dobie rides alone into Verdugo, Mexico. He fights and outwits guards, raids the barracks for a rifle, and slips into a cache where he overhears Carver admit to killing his father. Confronting him, Dobie is momentarily distracted by Jane’s cry, but he wins a brutal fistfight, ties Carver with a maguey rope, and frees the girl. He burns the drug shipment, uses the captive Carver to carry Jane, and escapes through the chaos to the U.S. officers, who receive Jane safely and take Carver into custody, leaving the smugglers’ plans in ruins. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Tuttle, W. C. (Wilbur C.), 1883-1969 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Duer, Douglas, 1887-1964 |
| Title | Border bred |
| Original Publication | New York, NY: Boy Scouts of America, 1923. |
| Series Title | Produced from the October and November, 1923 issues of Boy's Life magazine. |
| Credits | Prepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Orphans -- Fiction |
| Subject | Western stories |
| Subject | Teenage boys -- Fiction |
| Subject | Kidnapping -- Fiction |
| Subject | Smuggling -- Fiction |
| Subject | Mexican-American Border Region -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 78767 |
| Release Date | May 27, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 501 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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