The End of the Trail: Western Stories (The Works of Robert E. Howard) by Robert E. Howard |
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"The University of Nebraska Press collections are an important contribution to anyone interested in Robert E. Howard, or just how good pulp fiction can be."-Southwest BookViews (Southwest BookViews )
"An entertaining selection of Western tales, many of which were originally published between 1934 and 1937, features such inimitable characters as Breckinridge Elkins, Pike Bearfield, and Buckner J. Grimes, as they make their bumbling way through the colorful landscape of the American West."-Paper Clips (Paper Clips )
"These sixteen stories collected here are all `tall tales' featuring larger than life characters such as Breckinridge Elkins, Pike Bearfield, and Buckner J. Grimes. Told in dialect, these tales are a combination of slapstick and action. . . . Sit yourself down with a jug of corn juice-`half a gallon is enough for any man'-and enjoy."-Mike Ashworth, Historical Novels Review (Mike Ashworth Historical Novels Review )
"An entertaining selection of Western tales, many of which were originally published between 1934 and 1937, features such inimitable characters as Breckinridge Elkins, Pike Bearfield, and Buckner J. Grimes, as they make their bumbling way through the colorful landscape of the American West."-Paper Clips (Paper Clips )
"These sixteen stories collected here are all `tall tales' featuring larger than life characters such as Breckinridge Elkins, Pike Bearfield, and Buckner J. Grimes. Told in dialect, these tales are a combination of slapstick and action. . . . Sit yourself down with a jug of corn juice-`half a gallon is enough for any man'-and enjoy."-Mike Ashworth, Historical Novels Review (Mike Ashworth Historical Novels Review )
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Robert E. Howard turned to writing comic and dialect Western tales only late in his career, but he found an immediate and continuously successful market for them, and they are in many respects his most accomplished and polished works. The sixteen tales collected here are some of the best of his 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of the stories were published between 1934 and 1937 in Action Stories, Argosy, or Cowboy Stories; the other remained unpublished for more than thirty years.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.
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white hawg, hoss trough, yore pap, hind laig, yore honor, yore hoss, yore fine, acrost the street, yore neck, hoss thief, corn licker, devil air, hitching rack, wagon yard, south trail, old cuss, blue murder Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cap'n Kidd, Bear Creek, Breckinridge Elkins, Uncle Joab, Snake River, San Simeon, Uncle Jeppard, Chawed Ear, Uncle Saul, Cougar Paw, Miss Margaret, Van Brock, Uncle Garfield, Yeller Dog, Dick Jackson, Knife River, Miss Joan, Sinclair's Defeat, Jedge Peabody, Panther Springs, Aunt Henrietta, Blue Lizard, Mister Jones, Aunt Lavaca, Bill Santry New!
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white hawg, hoss trough, yore pap, hind laig, yore honor, yore hoss, yore fine, acrost the street, yore neck, hoss thief, corn licker, devil air, hitching rack, wagon yard, south trail, old cuss, blue murder Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cap'n Kidd, Bear Creek, Breckinridge Elkins, Uncle Joab, Snake River, San Simeon, Uncle Jeppard, Chawed Ear, Uncle Saul, Cougar Paw, Miss Margaret, Van Brock, Uncle Garfield, Yeller Dog, Dick Jackson, Knife River, Miss Joan, Sinclair's Defeat, Jedge Peabody, Panther Springs, Aunt Henrietta, Blue Lizard, Mister Jones, Aunt Lavaca, Bill Santry New!
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- Boxing Stories (The Works of Robert E. Howard) by Robert E. Howard in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Snake River (Steck-Vaughn Adventure Collection) by Judy Katschke on page 129
- Lord of Samarcand and Other Adventure Tales of the Old Orient (The Works of Robert E. Howard) by Robert Ervin Howard in Back Matter
- The End of the Trail: Western Stories (The Works of Robert E. Howard) by Robert E. Howard in Back Matter
- Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard in Front Matter
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