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    Guns of the Mountain
    Guns of the Mountain
    Guns of the Mountain
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    Guns of the Mountain

    By Robert E. Howard

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    Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 - June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. This is one of his western stories.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateApr 28, 2014
    ISBN9781609779221
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    • 5/5
      Breckenridge Elkins returns in another highly entertaining short western story. Once again Robert E. Howard demonstrates how to pack a lot of entertainment in just a few pages.The storyline is simple: Elkins's pa sends him away from home to retrieve Uncle Garfield's watch from the outlaws who stole it. The solution, however, is far from simple.I love the humour in this tale, most of which emanates from the main character's lack of intelligence, plus the way he narrates the story.A brilliant read.

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    Guns of the Mountain - Robert E. Howard

    Guns of the Mountains

    by Robert E. Howard

    Start Publishing LLC

    Copyright © 2012 by Start Publishing LLC

    All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

    First Start Publishing eBook edition January 2014

    Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

    Manufactured in the United States of America

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    ISBN 978-1-60977-922-1

    This business begun with Uncle Garfield Elkins coming up from Texas to visit us. Between Grizzly Run and Chawed Ear the stage got held up by some masked bandits, and Uncle Garfield, never being able to forget that he was a gun-fighting fool thirty or forty years ago, pulled his old cap-and-ball instead of putting up his hands like he was advised to. For some reason, instead of blowing out his light, they merely busted him over the head with a .45 barrel, and when he come to he was rattling on his way toward Chawed Ear with the other passengers, minus his money and watch.

    It was his watch what caused the trouble. That there timepiece had been his grandpap's, and Uncle Garfield sot more store by it than he did all his kin folks.

    When he arriv up in the Humbolt mountains where our cabin was, he imejitly let in to howling his woes to the stars like a wolf with the belly-ache. And from then on we heered nothing but that watch. I'd saw it

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