Guns of the Mountains

By Robert E. Howard

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 3, 2015
• ISBN: 9781633848979

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Guns of the Mountains

by Robert E. Howard

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Guns of the Mountains

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 and thunk very little of it. It was big as my fist, and wound up with a key

Reviews for Guns of the Mountains

[philsyphe · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

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.