SHORT STORY of WARD COURIER: The Second Scholar's Tale: "High Hat and The SkinWalker"

From the unpublished novel "The Roycroft Tales" (c) 2001 by Ward Courier under the pen name Mason Winfield

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One bright fall day in the 1870s the someday-to-be author, philosopher, and Roycroft community-founder Elbert Hubbard was making his way back to Buffalo from a Great Lakes sojourn. The teen-aged salesman had spent a night in the town of Bucktooth, so soon to be renamed ...