WESTERNS COLLECTION: The Breckinridge Elkins Series, The Pike Bearfield Series, The Buckner Jeopardy Grimes Stories & Other Wild West Tales (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Cowboy Humor & ActionBy Robert E. Howard
Length27h 26m
About this audiobook
This expansive collection gathers Robert E. Howard's comic and adventurous Western fiction, including the exuberant Breckinridge Elkins stories, the Pike Bearfield tales, Buckner Jeopardy Grimes, and other frontier narratives. Written in a vigorous pulp idiom, these stories combine tall-tale exaggeration, dialect comedy, hard-riding action, and sudden violence. They stand within the American tradition of frontier humor while also reflecting the market-driven energy of 1930s magazine fiction. Howard, best known as the creator of Conan the Barbarian, was also a deeply regional writer shaped by Texas landscapes, local oral storytelling, boxing culture, boomtown roughness, and a lifelong fascination with history and conflict. Living in Cross Plains, he absorbed the speech, legends, and attitudes of the Southwest, transforming them into fiction that is at once comic, muscular, and mythic. His Westerns reveal the same imaginative force that animates his fantasy and historical adventure. This volume is recommended for readers interested in classic pulp literature, humorous Westerns, and the broader range of Howard's achievement. It offers not merely entertainment, but a vivid study of how American frontier mythology could be parodied, intensified, and reinvented by one of popular fiction's most dynamic storytellers.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.5 (28)
Includes Amazon, Goodreads
GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length27 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 1, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1WESTERNS COLLECTION: The Breckinridge Elkins Series, The Pike Bearfield Series, The Buckner Jeopardy Grimes Stories & Other Wild West Tales (Annotated)
26Texas John Alden
2Introduction
27The 'Pike Bearfield' Saga
3Author Biography
28While Smoke Rolled
4Historical Context
29A Gent From The Pecos
5Synopsis (Selection)
30Gents On The Lynch
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6WESTERNS COLLECTION: The Breckinridge Elkins Series, The Pike Bearfield Series, The Buckner Jeopardy Grimes Stories & Other Wild West Tales
31The Riot Of Bucksnort
7The 'Breckinridge Elkins' Saga
32The 'Buckner Jeopardy Grimes' Saga
8Mountain Man
33A Man-Eating Jeopard
9Guns Of The Mountains
34Knife-River Prodigal
10The Scalp Hunter
35A Ring-Tailed Tornado
11A Gent From Bear Creek
36Golden Hope Christmas
12The Road To Bear Creek
37Drums of the Sunset
13The Haunted Mountain
381. THE WANDERER
14War On Bear Creek
392. MYSTERY
15The Feud Buster
403. THE GIRL'S STORY
16Cupid From Bear Creek
414. A TRAIL OF BLOOD
17The Riot At Cougar Paw
425. THUNDERING CLIFFS
18The Apache Mountain War
43Boot-Hill Payoff
19Pilgrims To The Pecos
441. THE LARAMIES RIDE
20Pistol Politics
452. OWL-HOOT GHOSTS
21Evil Deeds At Red Cougar
463. TRIGGER DEBT
22High Horse Rampage
474. SIDEWINDER RAMROD
23No Cowherders Wanted
485. FIRST BLOOD
24The Conquerin' Hero Of The Humbolts
496. "STRING HIM UP!"
25Sharp's Gun Serenade
507. BOTTLED UP
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