title: Wire to Wire - The Walter Merrick Story
author:  Frank Holmes 
description: <DIV><DIV><DIV>Frank Holmes has been penning horse-related feature articles and historical books for more than 35 years.&#160; His interests have always been centered on the historical aspects of the western horse breeds, and his broad-based knowledge of the origins of the Quarter Horse, Paint, Appaloosa and Palomino registries have established him as one of the pre-eminent equine historians of all time.</DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV><DIV>As a former staff writer for <I>Western Horseman</I> magazine, Frank co-authored volumes 2 through 5 of the immensely popular <I>Legends </I>book series and authored <I>The Hank Weiscamp Sto</I>ry.</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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  # Thubway Tham's Baggage Check
  
  
  ### Johnston McCulley
  
  
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  Detective Story, March 25, 1919
  
  
  HE sat in one corner of the smoking compartment of the Pullman car, next to
  the window, and watched the flying landscape closely. In one hand he held a
  railroad time-table, and he glanced at it, and at his watch, as each station
  was passed. If the limited was on time, very well and good; but, if it
  happened to be a couple of minutes late at any particular point, he acted as
  if about to go in search of the conductor and demand an immediate explanation.
  
  For he was going home!
  
  He was a little man, and apparently nervous to a great degree. His nostrils
  were thin, and his eyes furtive, and it seemed that his fingers were
  continually moving. Those same fingers were clever, though the other men in
  the smoking room did not