This titled carbon of The Last Ride, a collaboration between Chandler Whipple (Robert Enders Allen) and Howard, reached the Kline Agency on September 24, 1934, and Jessica Miller began marketing it the next day. A 1965 letter from Whipple to Glenn Lord says Otis Adelbert Kline had proposed bringing Howard in to turn Whipple’s unsold story into a saleable piece.

The story was sold to A. A. Wyn for $175 on July 20, 1935. Howard’s half was $87.50 before the agency commission and $78.75 after it.