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)