Hillbilly Breckenridge Elkins tells of his quiet life, fighting in the neighborhood. "A Gent from Bear Creek" is the title of both an original short story, and a novel created by combining several already published short stories with new material. Published stories were altered a little to create chapters with a continuous story line. Chapters are: 1 Striped Shirts and Busted Hearts (new) 2 Mountain Man 3 Meet Cap'n Kidd (new) 4 Guns of the Mountains 5 A Gent from Bear Creek 6 The Feud Buster 7 The Road to Bear Creek 8 The Scalp Hunter 9 Cupid from Bear Creek 10 The Haunted Mountain 11 Educate or Bust (new) 12 War on Bear Creek 13 When Bear Creek Came to Chawed Ear (new).