The American western by writer Robert E. Howard (1896–1936) is written in the bright, cheerful manner of Mark Twain and O. Henry. The novel’s hero, the kind-hearted clumsy Breckenridge Elkins, searches for a great, bright feeling, but mostly he encounters bandits and wild animals. The novel is assembled from stories about Breckenridge Elkins that were published earlier, as well as three that were not published previously. Unlike the collections “Brother of the Storm” and “The Death of a Storm,” the novellas included in this novel are connected to each other, and each subsequent one is a continuation of the previous.