Originally published in Action Stories, August 1935. First published in slightly altered form as “The Peaceful Pilgrim” in Mayhem on Bear Creek, Donald M. Grant, 1979.
The Adventures of Breckinridge Elkins Volume 2
Stories
A Gent from Bear Creek (novel)
Originally published as A Gent from Bear Creek, Jenkins, 1937.
The novel is a collection of Howard’s Brekinridge Elkins stories, rewritten to flow together as chapters of a novel. The novel contains the following stories:
- Striped Shirts and Busted Hearts (written especially for the novel)
- 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
- Sharp’s Gun Serenade (as “Educate or Bust”)
- War on Bear Creek
- When Bear Creek Came to Chawed Ear (written especially for the novel)
A Gent From the Pecos
Originally published in Argosy, October 3, 1936.
Gents on the Lynch
Originally published in Argosy, October 31, 1936.
Knife River Prodigal
Originally published in Cowboy Stories, July 1937.
A Man-Eating Jeopard
Originally published in Cowboy Stories, June 1936.
The Riot at Bucksnort
Originally published in Argosy, October 31, 1936.
Texas John Alden (AKA Ring-Tailed Tornado)
First published in Masked Rider Western, May 1944. Originally written as “Ring-Tailed Tornado” featuring Buckner J. Grimes.
While Smoke Rolled
First published in Double Action Western, December 1956. Originally written as “While the Smoke Rolled” featuring Pike Bearfield.