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Violence
Some
Moderate comic violence; Elkins brawls through nearly every story; played for humor rather than menace
Language
Barely any
Mild; frontier vernacular
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild; whiskey present in frontier settings
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Mild; the comedy derives from literal-mindedness meeting a complicated world he never quite understands
What this book is about
Robert E. Howard's Gent from Bear Creek collects the humorous Breckinridge Elkins stories — tall tales about an enormous, phenomenally strong, and somewhat dim mountain man who stumbles through misunderstandings, feuds, and accidental heroics across the American West. Where Howard's Conan stories are epic and serious, the Elkins tales are comedic in the tradition of American frontier humor: deadpan, absurdist, and built on the gap between Elkins's physical capability and his limited social intelligence.
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