Breckinridge Elkins is a giant grizzly bear of a man, well over 6 feet tall. So iron is his constitution that he can drink jug after jug of moonshine without serious inebriation.
Although incredibly strong and tough, the gent from Bear Creek isn’t terribly smart, and is easily fooled. Discovering that he has been tricked is liable to make him mad, however, and an angry Breckinridge Elkins has been the end to many a villainous scheme.
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.
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.
Swordsmen and Supermen is a 1972 anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by Lawan Chomchalow. It contains Howard’s MEET CAP’N KIDD.
The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press proudly presents Western Tales: The Ultimate Edition, an expanded 646-page collection of Robert E. Howard’s traditional and weird western stories, featuring rare fragments, revised texts, and previously unpublished material. Available in hardcover, softcover, and eBook formats, this definitive edition offers a thrilling journey into the untamed frontier through the imagination of one of America’s greatest pulp writers.
The sixth issue of ‘The “New” Howard Reader, from the autumn of 1999. Another issue filled with Howard-content. Published by Joe & Mona Marek. Cover art by Robert P. Barger. “The Vultures of Wahpeton” includes a facsimile of the artwork originally used in Smashing Novels Magazine, both alternative endings Howard wrote, and the editor’s notes that were included in the magazine version of the story.
“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”.
Bobby Derie’s free book is distributed in Cross Plains on Howard Days 2023. It’s a trivia book with six hundred questions about Robert E. Howard and everything related. You can play it like Trivial Pursuit, assigning a color to each category. Trivia questions are divided into six categories; each set of questions are on the right-hand (odd-numbered) pages and the answers are on the back. Limited to 200 copies.
Readers might want to flip through this book for their own enjoyment, but if you want to play a game with friends, try starting at a random page and taking turns asking questions from each category. Each question successfully answered is worth 1 point; the first to 30 points wins. (Why 30? Because Robert E. Howard was only 30 years old when he died.)
A fanzine or periodical edited by Jonathan Bacon from January 1977. Issue 1 contains the story THE CURSE OF GREED and the two poems “The Outcast” and “The Kiowa’s Tale”.
Double Action Western December 1956, Volume 24 Number 2. Includes the story WHILE SMOKE ROLLED, featuring Breckinridge Elkins.
