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Heroes of Bear Creek

Ace

1983
Edition format
Paperback
Contains
Stories

Publication date: November 1983

Introduction

"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"."A Gent from Bear Creek" is both the title of a story and a novel. It is a kind of fix-up novel of 13 related stories, all but three were first published in Action Stories from March 1934 to August 1935. The stories were slightly revised by Howard, and are presented as chapters of the novel, retaining their original titles.

Part One - A Gent from Bear Creek

All stories from A Gent from Bear Creek • non-genre • • (1937) • novel by Robert E. Howard

Part Two - The Pride of Bear Creek

Part Three - Mayhem on Bear Creek

 

Edition and production details

Language
English
Edition
1st
Edition format
Paperback
Publication date
November 1983
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0441328156
Pages
423
Publisher / imprint
Ace
Cover art
James Warhola
Illustrations
None

18 linked Howard works

42 contents entries

  1. "A Gent from Bear Creek" (Novel)
  2. Chapter I • Striped Shirts and Busted Hearts 3
  3. "The Riot at Cougar Paw"
  4. Chapter II • Mountain Man 13
  5. "Pilgrims to the Pecos"
  6. Chapter III • Meet Cap’n Kidd 27
  7. "High Horse Rampage"
  8. Chapter IV • Guns of the Mountains 42
  9. "The Apache Mountain War"
  10. Chapter V • A Gent from Bear Creek 56
  11. "Pistol Politics"
  12. Chapter VI • The Feud Buster 75
  13. "The Conquerin' Hero of the Humbolts"
  14. Chapter VII • The Road to Bear Creek 89
  15. "A Ringtailed Tornado"
  16. Chapter VIII • The Scalp Hunter 106
  17. "No Cowherders Wanted"
  18. Chapter IX • Cupid from Bear Creek 123
  19. "Mayhem and Taxes"
  20. Chapter X • The Haunted Mountain 136
  21. "Evil Deeds at Red Cougar"
  22. Chapter XI • Educate or Bust 150
  23. "Sharp's Gun Serenade"
  24. Chapter XII • War on Bear Creek 160
  25. "The Peaceful Pilgrim"
  26. Chapter XIII • When Bear Creek Came to Chawed Ear 178
  27. "While Smoke Rolled"
  28. The Riot at Cougar Paw • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1935) • short story by Robert E. Howard 207 · story
  29. "A Elkins Never Surrenders"
  30. Pilgrims to the Pecos • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard 222 · story
  31. High Horse Rampage • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard 240 · story
  32. The Apache Mountain War • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1935) • short story by Robert E. Howard 257 · story
  33. Pistol Politics • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard 274 · story
  34. The Conquerin’ Hero of the Humbolts • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard (variant of The Conquerin’ Hero of the Humboldts) 289 · story
  35. A Ringtailed Tornado • non-genre • (1944) • short story by Robert E. Howard 304 · story
  36. “No Cowherders Wanted” • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard 321 · story
  37. Mayhem and Taxes • (1967) • short story by Robert E. Howard 338 · story
  38. Evil Deeds at Red Cougar • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1936) • short story by Robert E. Howard 346 · story
  39. Sharp’s Gun Serenade • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1937) • short story by Robert E. Howard 364 · story
  40. The Peaceful Pilgrim (variant of Cupid of Bear Creek) • (1968) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 379 · novelette
  41. While Smoke Rolled • non-genre • [Breckinridge Elkins] • (1956) • novelette by Robert E. Howard 394 · novelette
  42. A Elkins Never Surrenders (variant of The curly wolf of Sawtooth) • non-genre • novelette by Robert E. Howard 409 · novelette

Contributors

James Warhola
Cover artist

Characters / Featuring

Bearfield ElstonBreckinridge ElkinsPike Bearfield

Additional related terms

Preserved from the former REH World tagging system; these terms have not yet been assigned as contributors, characters or subjects.

Robert E. Howard

Bibliographic and editorial layers

Bibliographic source layer

Title
Heroes of Bear Creek
Publisher
Ace
Date
November 1983
Source file
heroes.htm

REH World editorial layer

Title
Heroes of Bear Creek
Publisher
Ace
Date
November 1983
Source provenance

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