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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Blood and Thunder - Mark Finn

The Rabble Rouser's Forum posts a Paul Pappan review of the biography of Texas Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, etc., putting Howard in the Tall Tales Tradition.  The review begins
"Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard
by Mark Finn  -  MonkeyBrain Books | 2006

THIS BOOK EXPLORES the life and times of one of the most famous writers ever to come out of the state of Texas. During his brief writing career in the 1920s and 1930s, Robert E. Howard did a lot more for imaginative literature than simply create the character of Conan the Cimmerian.

In the early 1900s, Texas was experiencing an oil boom. Practically overnight, a town would spring up around oil wells, bringing all sorts of people, from roughnecks to work the wells,to barkeepers to prostitutes. They would stay until the oil ran out, then move on to the next boom town."   READ MORE AT
 

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