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    Texas John Alden
    Texas John Alden
    Texas John Alden
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    Texas John Alden

    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
    ISBN9781609779306
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      ‘Texas John Alden’ is an entertaining short western story, featuring Breckenridge Elkins, who agrees to bring a lady back to town on behalf of Bizz Ridgeway.Bizz declares that Gloria La Venner is the love of his life. She is working for Ace Middleton, seemingly against her will. Breckenridge agrees to return Gloria to Bizz, not out of friendship, but because Breckenridge has his own love interest, and he fears Bizz to be a rival.Therefore, by bringing Gloria to town Breckenridge is eliminating his competition. That’s the theory, anyway, plus giving Gloria a ride from one town to another is not going to be fraught with danger … is it?

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    Texas John Alden - Robert E. Howard

    Texas John Alden

    by Robert E. Howard

    Start Publishing LLC

    Copyright © 2012 by Start Publishing LLC

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    First Start Publishing eBook edition January 2014

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    I hear the citizens of War Whoop has organized theirselves into a committee of public safety which they says is to pertect the town agen me, Breckinridge Elkins. Sech doings as that irritates me. You'd think I was a public menace or something.

    I'm purty dern tired of their slanders. I didn't tear down their cussed jail; the buffalo-hunters done it. How could I when I was in it at the time?

    As for the Silver Boot saloon and dance hall, it wouldn't of got shot up if the owner had showed any sense. It was Ace Middleton's own fault he got his hind laig busted in three places, and if the city marshal had been tending to his own business instead of persecuting a pore, helpless stranger, he wouldn't of got the seat of his britches full of buckshot.

    Folks which says I went to War Whoop a-purpose to wreck the town, is liars. I never had no idea at first of going there at all. It's off the railroad and infested with tinhorn gamblers and buffalo-hunters and sech-like varmints, and no place for a trail-driver.

    My visit to this lair of vice come about like this: I'd rode p'int on a herd of longhorns clean from the lower Pecos to Goshen, where the railroad was. And I stayed there after the trail-boss and the other boys headed south, to spark the belle of the

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