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).
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 Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
