Local Option in Loco-land

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. When Ike Harper and Dirty Shirt Jones drift back into Yaller Rock County, they find a frontier town in the grip of a prohibition crusade led by the grandly named Lindhardt Cadwallader Sims. Anti-liquor signs line the trail, reformers preach the "demon rum," and Piperock becomes a comic battleground where moral zeal and hard-drinking skepticism collide. Ike and Dirty meet fire-and-brimstone voices like "Old Testament" Tilton, the earnest Mrs. Wick Smith, and Reverend Algernon Pettingill Parsley, while defenders of personal freedom answer with equal bluster. Dragged into temperance plays, rallies at Mint Hall and Paradise, and a parade of political schemes, Ike is caught between saloon men, crusaders, and office-seekers who seem more interested in bragging than principle. Buck Masterson, Magpie Simpkins, Scenery Sims, and the rest fuel the chaos until insults, gunfire, bad music, and a ruined performance turn reform into riot. In this raucous Western comedy, liquor politics, frontier pride, and public virtue all spiral into one endless, hilarious fight.