Robert E. Howard & the Howard Museum
The Robert E. Howard Museum, located in the home of Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian. Howard lived in this home from 1919 until his death in 1936. Howard's home, restored by Project Pride, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and attracts hundreds of visitors each year.
What's New!
Robert E. Howard Days Cancellation 2009
Robert E. Howard postal cancellation from Robert Howard Days, June 12, 2009.
Robert E. Howard Home Restored by Project Pride
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 >>
Robert E. Howard - The Father of Conan
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 >>
