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The Adventures of Breckinridge Elkins Volume 2

REH Foundation Press

2017
Edition format
Hardcover

Publication date: March 2017

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Introduction

Robert E. Howard wrote many types of stories. These are funny, over the top adventures about Breckinridge Elkins from Bear Creek. Could be categorized as funny western. The volume is 414 pages, plus introductory material.

This is Volume two and it collects the novel, A Gent from Bear Creek as well as the exploits of Howard’s other funny western heroes–including Pike Bearfield and Buckner J. Grimes–all restored to the original text, where available.

This volume is printed in hardback with dust jacket, in a limited quantity of 300   copies, each individually numbered.Cover design and painting by Richard Bernal; introduction by James Reasoner; edited by Rob Roehm and Paul Herman.

First editions of this book is still available. It's published by the Robert E. Howard Foundation.

Edition and production details

Language
English
Edition
1st
Edition format
Hardcover with dust jacket
Publication date
March 2017
Pages
x plus 414
Publisher / imprint
The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press
Cover art
Richard Bernal
Illustrations
None

21 linked Howard works

25 contents entries

  1. "Make ’Em Laugh: Howard’s Humorous Westerns" by James Reasoner (Introduction)
  2. Breckinridge Elkins
  3. "A Gent from Bear Creek" (novel)
  4. Bearfield Elston
  5. "A Elston to the Rescue"
  6. Buckner J. Grimes
  7. "Knife River Prodigal"
  8. "A Man-Eating Jeopard"
  9. "Ring-Tailed Tornado"
  10. Pike Bearfield
  11. "A Gent from the Pecos"
  12. "Gents on the Lynch"
  13. "The Riot at Bucksnort"
  14. "While the Smoke Rolled"
  15. Miscellanea
  16. "West Is West" (as published in THE TATTLER, December 22, 1922.)
  17. "Mayhem and Taxes" (unfinished)
  18. "The Peaceful Pilgrim"
  19. Letter: March 1935 (John F. Byrne to Viola Cooper)
  20. Untitled Synopsis ("Ring-Tailed Tornado")
  21. To Jack Byrne, April 21, 1936, draft, "My agent, O. A. Kline . . ."
  22. "The Diablos Trail" (unfinished)
  23. Untitled ("A Gent from the Pecos" [synopsis])
  24. Untitled ("Gents on the Lynch" [synopsis])
  25. Untitled ("While the Smoke Rolled" [synopsis])

Contributors

Rob Roehm
Editor
James Reasoner
Introduction author, Essayist
Richard Bernal
Cover artist

Characters / Featuring

Breckinridge ElkinsBuckner J. GrimesPike BearfieldBearfield Elston
Source provenance

This public record has been reviewed and combined by REH World. The preserved bibliographic source and earlier editorial layers remain stored internally for reference and future correction.