"That'll be About Enough, Dusty..."

The present work was published in the July 22, 1922 issue of The Country Gentleman magazine as an illustration in William MacLeod Raine’s short story “Iron Heart.” The story centers on roughened young man Tug, who had rescued a woman named Betty from his former thug companion. The present scene, captioned “‘That’ll be About Enough, Dusty,’ Burt Interfered. ‘It’s the Old Man’s Say-So About What He Wants Done to This Guy. I Ain’t So Darned Sure We’ve Got the Right One Anyhow,’” shows two cowboys, Dusty and Bert, employed by Betty’s father, an influential ranch owner, dragging Tug across a dusty plain before realizing they have mistakenly identified him as the man who attacked her.