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Hero of Bear Creek
(Breckinridge Elkins)
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"Mountain Man"
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"Guns of the Mountains"
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"The Scalp Hunter"
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"A Gent from Bear Creek"
(short story)
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"The Road to Bear Creek"
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"The Haunted Mountain"
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"War on Bear Creek"
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"The Feud Buster"
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"Cupid from Bear Creek"
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"The Riot at Cougar
Paw"
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"The Apache Mountain
War"
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"Pilgrims to the Pecos"
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"Pistol Politics"
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"Evil Deeds at Red
Cougar"
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"High Horse Rampage"
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"No Cowherders Wanted"
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"The Conquerin' Hero
of the Humboldts"
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"Sharp's Gun Serenade"
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"Mayhem and Taxes"
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"The Peaceful Pilgrim"
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"A Elkins Never Surrenders"
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"A Elkins Never Surrenders"
(early draft)
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Untitled fragment ("… throat
under his lower jaw ...")
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"Evil Deeds at Red
Cougar" (synopsis fragment)
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Sons of Bear Creek
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"A Gent from the Pecos"
(Pike Bearfield)
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"Gents on the Lynch"
(Pike Bearfield)
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"The Riot at Bucksnort"
(Pike Bearfield)
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"While Smoke Rolled"
(Pike Bearfield)
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"The Diablos Trail"
(Pike Bearfield)
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"A Man-Eating Jeopard"
(Buckner J. Grimes)
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"Knife River Prodigal"
(Buckner J. Grimes)
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"A Ring-Tailed Tornado"
(Buckner J. Grimes)
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"The Curly Wolf of
Sawtooth" (Bearfield Elston)
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A Gent from Bear Creek
(Breckinridge Elkins)
(Herbert Jenkins Version)
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"A Gent from Bear Creek"
(novel)
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Originally to be published by
the Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, but never done.
Neither edition of the book was ever offered
for sale.
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Hardcover: Limited to three
copies (1 test copy and two corrected copies).
The dust jacket was off center on the test copy and discarded.
One copy was traded to a friend of the publisher
(who later sold it).
One was given to Glenn Lord and eventually sold at the Windy City
Pulp and Paper Convention in 2022.
The third copy was listed on a 3-day eBay auction (2022) by the
publisher.
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Trade paperback: The exact
number of copies is not known, but it is believed to be less than 10
copies.
One copy was used as a prize for the first poetry reading contest at
Howard Days.
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Contains the following first appearances:
"A Elkins Never Surrenders"
(early draft)
Untitled fragment ". . . throat under his lower
jaw, and I had . . ."
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The stories are all taken from
the original pulps or from typescripts if the
pulps were not available with the following exceptions:
1. "A Gent from Bear Creek" (novel) was
taken from the Herbert Jenkins edition of the book.
2. "Mayhem and Taxes", "The
Peaceful Pilgrim" and "A Elkins Never Surrenders"
were taken from The Summitt County Journal.
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