the apple dumpling gang Author:jack m. bickham What was the sheriff doing, up to his elbows in pie dough? Making apple dumplings, of course. Look, if you were the sheriff of a sleepy little Western town and surrounded by three of the orneriest outlaw gangs in the territory, you might turn to apple dumplings yourself. — And if the town drunk had skipped out and left you with trouble-prone ki... more »ds, you just might find apple dumplings a good way of keeping them out of mischief--for an hour or so.
That's what this sheriff thought, anyway. But when all the desperados came to town to commit the same crime at the same time, it meant a rip-roaring free-for-all for the sheriff and his APPLE DUMPLING GANG!« less
Published 1975. This is the book from which Disney made the film. A wandering gambler ambles into town and winds up with three orphans. What he does with the problems, people, and his errant heart makes for hilarious reading.