Originally published in Action Stories, December 1935.
Breckinridge Elkins
Stories
The Conquerin’ Hero of the Humboldts
Originally published in Action Stories, October 1936.
Howard’s original title was “Politics at Lonesome Lizard.”
Cupid from Bear Creek (AKA The Peaceful Pilgrim)
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.
A Elkins Never Surrenders
First published as “The Curly Wolf of Sawtooth” in Star Western, September 1936.
Evil Deeds at Red Cougar
Originally published in Action Stories, June 1936.
The Feud Buster
Originally published in Action Stories, June 1935.
A Gent from Bear Creek
Originally published in Action Stories, October 1934.
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)
Guns of the Mountains
First published in Action Stories, May/June 1934.
The Haunted Mountain
Originally published in Action Stories, February 1935.
High Horse Rampage
First published in Action Stories, August 1936.
Mayhem and Taxes
First published in The Summit County Journal, September 8, 15, 22 & 29, 1967.
Meet Cap’n Kidd
First published in A Gent From Bear Creek, Jenkins, 1937.
Mountain Man
Originally published in Action Stories, March/April 1934.
“No Cowherders Wanted” (AKA Gents in Buckskin)
First published in Action Stories, September 1936.
Alternate title: “Gents in Buckskin.”
Pilgrims to the Pecos
Originally published in Action Stories, February 1936.
Pistol Politics
Originally published in Action Stories, April 1936.
The Riot at Cougar Paw
Originally published in Action Stories, October 1935.
The Road to Bear Creek
Originally published in Action Stories, December 1934.
The Scalp Hunter (AKA A Stranger in Grizzly Claw)
First published in Action Stories, August 1934. Published in The New Howard Reader #7, Spring 2000, as “A Stranger in Grizzly Claw.”
Sharp’s Gun Serenade
Originally published in Action Stories, January 1937.
Published as “Educate or Bust” in The Summit County Journal, serialized over ten weeks in September, October and November, 1970.
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.
War on Bear Creek
Originally published in Action Stories, April 1935.
While Smoke Rolled
First published in Double Action Western, December 1956. Originally written as “While the Smoke Rolled” featuring Pike Bearfield.