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The riot at Bucksnort and other Western tales / Robert E. Howard ; edited and with an introduction by David Gentzel.
LIBRA Special PS3515.O842 A6 2005d
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936.
- Series:
- Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936. Works of Robert E. Howard.
- The works of Robert E. Howard
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Texas--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Texas.
- Manners and customs.
- Western stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 255 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- The sixteen tales collected here are some of the best of Robert E. Howard's stories, featuring Breckinridge Elkins, Pike Bearfield, and Buckner J. Grimes-three inimitable characters who lead well-intentioned lives of perpetual confusion, mischance, and outright catastrophe. Fifteen of the stories were published between 1934 and 1937 in Action Stories, Argosy, or Cowboy Stories; the other remained unpublished for more than thirty years. Many of these stories were rewritten for book publication and have never been reprinted in their original form. They are reminiscent of traditional southwestern tall tales, told in dialect, featuring larger-than-life characters, swift action, broad satire, and wry humor.
- Contents:
- Mountain man
- Meet Cap'n Kidd
- Guns of the mountains
- The peaceful pilgrim
- War on Bear Creek
- The haunted mountain
- The feud buster
- The riot at Cougar Paw
- Pistol politics
- "No cowherders wanted"
- The conquerin' hero of the Humbolts
- A gent from the Pecos
- Gents on the lynch
- The riot at Bucksnort
- Knife River prodigal
- A man-eating jeopard.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin), 1906-1936. Riot at Bucksnort and other Western tales.
- ISBN:
- 0803224257
- 9780803224254
- 0803273541
- 9780803273542
- OCLC:
- 57202100
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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