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 369 pages, plus introductory material.
This volume is printed in hardback with dust jacket, in a limited quantity of 200 copies, each individually numbered. Cover design and painting by Richard Bernal; introduction by Mark Finn; edited by Rob Roehm and Paul Herman.
This book is now sold out. It’s published by the Robert E. Howard Foundation.
Contents
- v • Tickled Ribs and Slapped Knees: Robert E. Howard and Breckinridge Elkins • essay by Mark Finn (Introduction)
- 3 • Mountain Man • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1934) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 18 • Guns of the Mountains • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1934) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 32 • A Gent from Bear Creek • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1934) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 51 • A Stranger in Grizzly Claw • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1934) • short story by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Scalp Hunter)
- 67 • The Road to Bear Creek • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1934) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 81 • A Elkins Never Surrenders • non-genre • (1979) • novelette by Robert E. Howard (variant of The curly wolf of Sawtooth)
- 99 • War on Bear Creek • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1935) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 117 • The Haunted Mountain • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1935) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 132 • The Feud Buster • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1935) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 148 • Cupid from Bear Creek • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1935) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 163 • The Riot at Cougar Paw • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1935) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 180 • The Apache Mountain War • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1935) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 199 • Pilgrims to the Pecos • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 219 • Pistol Politics • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 236 • Evil Deeds at Red Cougar • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 255 • Gents on the Rampage • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard (variant of High Horse Rampage)
- 273 • Gents in Buckskin • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard (variant of “No Cowherders Wanted”)
- 292 • Politics at Lonesme Lizard • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Conquerin’ Hero of the Humboldts)
- 309 • Sharp’s Gun Serenade • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1937) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 329 • Six-Gun Interview (unfinished) • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (2009) • short fiction by Robert E. Howard (variant of Untitled fragment (Six-Gun Interview))
- 341 • A Gent from Bear Creek (draft) • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1934) • short story by Robert E. Howard
- 365 • Untitled Synopsis (The Road to Bear Creek) • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
- 367 • Untitled Synopsis (Evil Deeds at Red Cougar) • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
- 369 • Untitled Synopsis (Gents on the Rampage) • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • short fiction by Robert E. Howard
| Year : | August 2016 |
| Book No. : | None |
| Edition : | 1st |
| Format : | Hardcover with dust jacket |
| Pages : | xiv plus 369 |
| Cover : | Richard Bernal |
| Illustrations : | None |
Notes
Edited by Paul Herman and Rob Roehm.
First appearance:
A Gent from Bear Creek (draft)
untitled synopsis (The Road to Bear Creek)
untitled synopsis (Evil Deeds at Red Cougar)
untitled synopsis (The Road to Bear Creek)
All the texts were obtained from Howard’s typescripts or carbons with the exception of “The Apache Mountain War” and “Sharpe’s Gun Serenade” which were obtained from ACTION STORIES, December 1935 and January 1937, respectively.
This is the first in a series of two books. Limited edition of 200 copies
