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"A Gent from Bear Creek" (Novel)
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"A Gent from Bear Creek"
is the title of both an original short story, as well
as a novel created by combining several previous short stories with some
new material; the previously published short stories were altered a little
to create chapters with a continuous story line and new material was added
as additional chapters.
The chapters are:
"Striped Shirts and Busted Hearts" (new)
"Mountain Man"
"Meet Cap'n Kidd" (new)
"Guns of the Mountains"
"A Gent from Bear Creek"
"The Feud Buster"
"The Road to Bear Creek"
"The Scalp Hunter"
"Cupid from Bear Creek"
"The Haunted Mountain"
"Educate or Bust"
"War on Bear Creek"
"When Bear Creek Came to Chawed Ear" (new) |
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A ‘Cheap Edition’
was reportedly released in 1938.
Glenn Lord supposes the cheap state may have been the first,
with the dustjacket marked down accordingly, or signatures of the first
bound in lesser materials, perhaps even paper-covered. Neither he nor
anyone he has talked with in over 50 years of Howard collecting has ever
seen this “cheap” edition. [From "Collecting Robert
E. Howard" by Don Herron in the July/August 2000 issue of FIRSTS.]
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The true first edition from
1937 is scarce.
Nineteen copies are known to exist.
These were documented in THE ROBERT E. HOWARD NEWSLETTER V10N3/4
with updates in V11N1/2,
V13N3, V16N1, and V16N4.
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The nineteenth copy is from the heirs of
Gary Munson and was sold by Heritage Auctions to Jason Germany of Midlothian,
Texas on 31 October 2022.
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