“Destry Rides Again and Again and Again” quipped John D. Weaver in a 1963 article that uses Max Brand’s character as a symbol of western cliches. By then Destry’s story, first serialized in 1930 in Western Story Magazine as “Twelve Peers”, had multiple adaptations, but the best-known had little to do with Brand’s novel, a tale of Destry’s revenge and repentance after a stacked jury wrongly convicts him. The original Destry Rides Again joins the public domain in 30 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown