by Pete Toms (Author)

A tale torn from the pages of history! It's the late 19th century in America's WILD WEST, the gold rush is winding down and people are hungry for a new commodity: JOKES! When the frontier town of Slapstick decides to hold a comedy contest to crown the funniest person in the country, they turn their gallows into a stage and hundreds of cowboys, killers, philosophers, militants, sadists, improv comedians, and ventriloquists descend upon it. Only one can be THE CHUCKLE CHAMPION, but they'll all learn that nothing is what it seems in the treacherous tinderbox of Slapstick!