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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5‘Texas John Alden’ is an entertaining short western story, featuring Breckenridge Elkins, who agrees to bring a lady back to town on behalf of Bizz Ridgeway.Bizz declares that Gloria La Venner is the love of his life. She is working for Ace Middleton, seemingly against her will. Breckenridge agrees to return Gloria to Bizz, not out of friendship, but because Breckenridge has his own love interest, and he fears Bizz to be a rival.Therefore, by bringing Gloria to town Breckenridge is eliminating his competition. That’s the theory, anyway, plus giving Gloria a ride from one town to another is not going to be fraught with danger … is it?
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Texas John Alden - Robert E. Howard
Texas John Alden
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Robert E. Howard
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Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas in 1906. During his youth, his family moved between a variety of Texan boomtowns, and Howard – a bookish and somewhat introverted child – was steeped in the violent myths and legends of the Old South. Although he loved reading and learning, Howard developed a distinctly Texan, hardboiled outlook on the world. He became a passionate fan of boxing, taking it up at an amateur level, and from the age of nine began to write adventure tales of semi-historical bloodshed. In 1919, when Howard was thirteen, his family moved to the Central Texas hamlet of Cross Plains, where he would stay for the rest of his life.
At fifteen Howard began to read the pulp magazines of the day, and to write more seriously. The December 1922 issue of his high school newspaper featured two of his stories, ‘Golden Hope Christmas’ and ‘West is West’. In 1924 he sold his first piece – a short caveman tale titled ‘Spear and Fang’ – for $16 to the not-yet-famous Weird Tales magazine. He published with the magazine regularly over the next few years. 1929 was a breakout year for Howard, in that the 23-year-old writer began to sell to other magazines, such as Ghost Stories and Argosy, both of whom had previously sent him hundreds of rejection slips. In 1930, he began a correspondence with weird fiction master H. P. Lovecraft which ran up to his death six years later, and is regarded as one of the great correspondence cycles in all of fantasy literature.
It was partly due to Lovecraft’s encouragement that Howard created his most famous character, Conan the Cimmerian. Conan –