A Twentieth-Century Rip Van Winkle. Written when Howard attended Cross Plains High School. Date October 13, 1920. First published in The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval (Paradox Entertainment, March 2007).
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Striped Shirts and Busted Hearts. Featuring Breckinridge Elkins. This short story was altered slightly to become chapter 1 of the novel, A Gent From Bear Creek.
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Howard sent Otis Adelbert Kline a finished typescript entitled “Sailor Costigan and the Yellow Cobra.” This typescript was first corrected, and then later changed into the Dennis Dorgan story “Sailor Dorgan and the Yellow Cobra” by Patrick Ervin. It was sold to MAGIC CARPET MAGAZINE, but never published by them. The typescript at the Cross Plains Library is Howard’s, but correction tape has been used to change Howard to Ervin, Costigan to Dorgan, Mike to Spike, The Sea Girl to The Python, etc.) Still, later, a “clean copy” was produced that incorporated all the changes and corrections.
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“Pistol Politics” was first published in Action Stories Volume 13 Number 7, Fiction House, Inc., April 1936. The story follows the explosive mix of politics, liquor, and literacy in the rough frontier mining camp of Yeller Dog, as Breckinridge Elkins finds himself entangled in a chaotic mayoral election.
Pilgrims to the Pecos. Alternate Title: Weary Pilgrims on the Road. Featuring Breckinridge Elkins.
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“Mr. Dowser Buys a Car” is a humorous story that captures the misadventures of Mr. Dowser as he gets swindled into purchasing a dilapidated car from the cunning Mr. Jimson.
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Number 2, volume 15 – summer 2021. Contains ‘The Peaceful Pilgrim’, a supposedly earlier version of ‘Cupid from from Bear Creek’, a Breckinridge Elkins story. The typescript is a carbon of the second draft of “Pilgrim”. Also news and a report from the 2021 Howard Days by Bill Cavalier.
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The Adventures of Breckinridge Elkins Volume 2: Ultimate Edition collects the riotous, over-the-top novel A Gent from Bear Creek. And this volume does not only have Breckinridge Elkins, you’ll get Bearfield Elston, Buckner J. Grimes and Pike Bearfield as well — Howard’s unique brand of humorous Western fiction.
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For the first time ever, a collection featuring all of Howard’s drafts and fragments. The second volume in a four-part series from the REH Foundation Press collects all the drafts for Howard’s drafts for eight Breckinridge Elkins stories.
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“Heroes of Bear Creek” is an omnibus published by Ace in 1983 and contains text from the Donald M. Grant editions of “A Gent from Bear Creek”, “The Pride of Bear Creek” and “Mayhem on Bear Creek”.