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Sharp's Gun Serenade
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Textual states
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Characters in this Work
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Bill GlantonTexas gunman guiding Professor Van Brock in the Haunted Mountains2 textual statesBreckinridge Elkins3 textual statesCap’n KiddBreckinridge Elkins's horse2 textual statesJack Spragueyoung man rescued from suicide; elopes with Miss Devon2 textual statesJoshua Braxtonolder hermit hiding in the Haunted Mountains to avoid an unwanted marriage1 textual stateMiss Devonyoung schoolteacher intended for Chawed Ear; elopes with Jack Sprague2 textual states
Publication appearances
Action Stories January 1937Fiction House, IncJanuary 1937↗
Mayhem on Bear CreekDonald M. GrantJuly/August 1979↗
Heroes of Bear CreekAceNovember 1983↗
The Complete Action StoriesHermanthis PressNovember 2001↗
The Complete Action StoriesWildside PressNovember 2003 (Hardcover) | January 2005 (Trade paperback)↗
Crimson Shadows: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1Ballantine Books - Del ReyAugust 2007↗
Crimson Shadows: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1Subterranean PressNovember 2009↗
A Gent from Bear Creek and Other WesternsHalcyon Press, Ltd.January 2010↗
The Robert E. Howard Omnibus: 99 Collected StoriesHalcyon Press, Ltd.May 2010↗
Collected Western Stories of Robert E. HowardHalcyon Press, Ltd.October 2010↗
The Breckenridge Elkins StoriesJame-BooksAugust 2012↗
The Misadventures of Breckinridge ElkinsNuelow GamesAugust 2012↗
Robert E. Howard's Collected WorksJame-BooksFebruary 2013↗
The Adventures of Breckinridge Elkins Volume 1REH Foundation PressAugust 2016↗
The Adventures of Breckinridge Elkins Volume 1 UEREH Foundation PressJanuary 2026↗#4187