Written when he was 18, How Law and Order Came to Aramie’s hero anticipates his most famous character
A spoof western by James Thurber, featuring a Walter Mitty-esque sheriff, has been published for the first time. The story was discovered in a university archive, and its appearance comes more than a century after it was written.
The story, How Law and Order Came to Aramie, was written by Thurber around 1912, when he would have been about 18. It was found by Andrew Gulli, managing editor of the Strand magazine, in the rare book and manuscripts library at Ohio State University. It is finally available to the public in the new issue of the mystery magazine.
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