Sir Piegan passes by W. C. Tuttle is a Western short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on a drifting cowpuncher who stumbles into a crooked assayer’s plot to steal a miner’s claims, turning a planned murder-for-hire into a showdown of cunning, nerve, and frontier justice. Solomon Kane, a dishonest assayer, and his henchman Bush Cleveland want Cale Winters’ seemingly low‑grade Jennie and Joe claims, so they try to hire a killer. By mistake they pay the Piegan Kid—arriving on a telltale pinto—five thousand dollars to shoot Winters. The Kid, no murderer, sizes up the scheme, warns Winters, and later overhears the real gunman, Buck Helm, being hired. He marches Solomon and Bush to the Winters cabin, starves Bush of tobacco until he blurts out where the rich vein truly crops, and then slips outside to foil Helm’s dawn ambush. Helm wounds Solomon by mistake, and the Kid dives from the rocks to beat and capture the two‑gun man, leaving Winters a reward and the key to his mine’s value. Refusing payment or praise, the Kid rides off after asking Jennie for a hairpin—then uses it to fish the hidden banknotes from his gun barrel—leaving safety, wealth, and a hint of romance behind him. (This is an automatically generated summary.)