Blame It on Brother Bill

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Jay Bird Whittaker is a hard-bitten ranch owner with a lifelong grudge against women, and the arrival of his brother's niece Clementine and her wealthy society friend throws his bachelor fortress into comic upheaval. His blustering outrage, tangled family confusion, and flood of profanity set the tone for a frontier farce in which ranch hands Muley, Telescope, Chuck, Henry, and the rest wisecrack their way through love, money, and male pride. When Chuck secretly telegraphs an invitation, Paradise seizes on the news and decides to stage a grand welcome, complete with speeches, music, and civic swagger far beyond its competence. What follows is a riot of blunders: a makeshift band, Judge Steele's pompous address, gunfire at the train, and a disastrous automobile ride that smashes through town, skids into a river, and ends in the Cross-J kitchen. The women prove far from helpless, meeting the chaos with sharp temper and skeptical wit, even hurling a lamp at Jay Bird. As visitors, cowboys, and townsmen crowd in with vanity, curiosity, and romantic hopes, the story turns frontier roughness into affectionate satire, where bravado, misunderstanding, and reluctant hospitality collide.