Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard postal cancellation from Robert Howard Days, June 12, 2009.

Project Pride is a community organization in Cross Plains, Texas that bought
the Howard House in 1989 and has since restored it to a museum in Robert E. Read more >>

THE FATHER OF CONAN

By GLENN LORD, Literary Agent for the Estate of Robert E. Howard

As printed in Savage Sword of Conan #200

The future creator of Conan, Robert Ervin Howard, was born January 22, 1906, at Peaster, Texas, a tiny hamlet some forty-five miles southwest of Fort Worth. The father, a country physician, moved the little family the length and breadth of Texas over the next several years before finally settling at Cross Plains, a small town in Central Texas, in 1919. Read more >>