Title: The Vultures of Wahpeton

Title: The Vultures of Wahpeton Title Record # 1520518
Author: Robert E. Howard
Date: 1936-12-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novella
Language: English

Note: Western tale without any speculative elements. First appeared in Smashing Novels Magazine, December 1936. Howard's original title was "The Vultures of Wahpeton". Howard provided two endings, assuming the publisher would choose one. But the editors of Smashing Novels Magazine published both endings. Treasures of Tartary similarly includes both endings. Other publications use only the most dramatic ending, although the alternative ending is published as a separate item of content in a number of places.

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Year	Title
1936	The Vultures of Whapeton
1936^ⓘThe title for this story in The End of the Trail: Western Stories at the start of the story is "Vultures of Wahpeton", but the page heading over the story beginning on p. 232 changes to "The Vultures of Wahpeton".	Vultures of Wahpeton
1973	The Vultures

Year	Title
2022	The Vultures of Wahpeton (Part 1 of 3)
2022	The Vultures of Wahpeton (Part 2 of 3)
2022	The Vultures of Wahpeton (part 3 of 3)

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Vultures: Showdown at Hell's Canyon	1973-00-00	Robert E. Howard	Fictioneer Books	0-87707-115-2	$5.95^?$: US dollar	190	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Stephen Fabian
The Vultures: Showdown at Hell's Canyon	1975-00-00	Robert E. Howard	Fictioneer Books	0-87707-115-2		190	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Stephen Fabian
The Vultures of Whapeton	1975-11-00	Robert E. Howard	Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp.	0-09083-144-9	$1.50^?$: US dollar	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Jeff Jones
The Vultures of Whapeton	1976-03-00	Robert E. Howard	Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp.	0-09083-144-9	$1.50^?$: US dollar	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Jeff Jones
The Vultures of Whapeton	1976-10-00	Robert E. Howard	Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp.	0-89083-144-0 / 144	$1.50^?$: US dollar	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Jeff Jones
The Vultures of Whapeton	1980-01-00	Robert E. Howard	Berkley Books	0-425-04435-1	$1.95^?$: US dollar	216	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Ken Kelly
The "New" Howard Reader, #6 Autumn 1999	1999-00-00	ed. Joe Marek	Joe & Mona Marek			48	ph^?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.	fanzine	Robert P. Barger
Treasures of Tartary and Other Heroic Tales	2004-07-00	Robert E. Howard	Wildside Press	0-8095-1109-6	$35.00^?$: US dollar	218	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The End of the Trail: Western Stories	2005-04-00	Robert E. Howard	Bison Books (The Works of Robert E. Howard (Bison) #3)	0-8032-2424-9	$35.00^?$: US dollar	xviii+ 320	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Jim Keegan , Ruth Keegan
The End of the Trail: Western Stories	2005-04-00	Robert E. Howard	Bison Books (The Works of Robert E. Howard (Bison) #3)	0-8032-7356-8	$17.95^?$: US dollar	xviii+ 320	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Jim Keegan , Ruth Keegan
Treasures of Tartary and Other Heroic Tales	2006-07-00	Robert E. Howard	Wildside Press	0-8095-5668-5	$14.95^?$: US dollar	197	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volume 2: Grim Lands	2007-12-00	Robert E. Howard	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-49019-3	$16.95^?$: US dollar	xxiii+ 510+ [7]	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Jim Keegan , Ruth Keegan
Heroes in the Wind: From Kull to Conan: The Best of Robert E. Howard	2009-09-00	Robert E. Howard	Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics)	978-0-14-118943-7	£10.99^?£: UK pound	xviii+ 541	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Jupiter Images
Western Tales	2013-10-16	Robert E. Howard	The Robert E. Howard Foundation Press		$50.00^?$: US dollar	xiv+ 551	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Tom Gianni
The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter, Spring 2022	2022-07-21	ed. Lee A. Breakiron	The Robert E. Howard Foundation		$0.00^?$: US dollar	36	quarto^?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued	fanzine	Doug Ellis
The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter, Summer 2022	2022-08-30	ed. Lee A. Breakiron	The Robert E. Howard Foundation		$0.00^?$: US dollar	36	quarto^?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued	fanzine	Howard Sherman
The Robert E. Howard Foundation Newsletter, Fall 2022	2022-11-23	ed. Lee A. Breakiron	The Robert E. Howard Foundation		$0.00^?$: US dollar	40	quarto^?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued	fanzine	Tom Gianni

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