The Complete Adventures of Breckenridge Elkins

by Robert E. Howard

As adept in writing Westerns as the horror and fantasy for which he was best known, Weird Tales author Robert E. Howard created the character of Breckenridge Elkins, whose exploits in largely tongue-in-cheek, tall-tale humorous adventures form the basis of this 24 story

Striped Shirts and Busted Hearts
Mountain Man
Meet Cap'n Kidd
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
Evil Deeds at Red Cougar
High Horse Rampage
No Cowherders Wanted
Pilgrims To the Pecos
Texas John Alden
While Smoke Rolled
Pistol Politics
Sharp's Gun Serenade
The Apache Mountain War
The Conquerin' Hero of the Humbolts
The Riot at Cougar Paw

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First published February 9, 2011

About the author

Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."

He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.

—Wikipedia

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Reviews

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great escapist fare.