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"Too
Much Like Life" by Rusty Burke (Introduction)
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Autobiography
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"The
Wandering Years"
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"An
Autobiography"
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"What I Did to Help
Win the War"
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"In His Own Image"
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"Some People Who
Have Had Influence Over Me"
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"A
Touch of Trivia"
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"To a Man Whose Name
I Never Knew"
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"The
Galveston Affair"
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"The
Beast from the Abyss"
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Autobiographical
Fiction
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Untitled "A
typical small town drug store"
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"Spanish
Gold on Devil Horse"
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"Post
Oaks and Sand Roughs"
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"Sunday
in a Small Town"
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"Ambition
in the Moonlight"
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"Musings of a Moron"
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"Irony"
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Miscellanea
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"What I
Did in Vacation"
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"What
My Signature Means to Me"
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"The Recalcitrant"
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Untitled “Mike
Costigan, writer and self-avowed futilist”
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"The Splendid Brute"
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"The
Paradox"
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"The Ivory
Camel"
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Drafts
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"Spanish Gold on Devil
Horse" (early draft)
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"Post Oaks and Sand Roughs"
(early draft)
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Appendix 1: Post Oaks Documents
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"The Seven-Up Ballad"
(poem)
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"Dula Due to Be Champ"
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"Letters
from Mom"
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"Unsigned contract"
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Appendix 2: Autobiographical Letters
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Letter to Argosy All-Story Weekly,
Spring 1929
"I was born in Texas about twenty-three . . ."
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Letter to Farnsworth Wright,
June/July 1931
"In your last letter you asked me to give you . . ."
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Letter to Wilfred Blanch Talman,
September 1931
"Thank you very much for the letter you wrote . . ."
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Letter to Dime Sports, June 1936
"Name: Robert Ervin Howard . . ."
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Appendix 3: Uncollected Letters
from Dr. I. M. Howard
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Letter to E. Hoffmann Price, July
11, 1936
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Letter to G. H. Sherman, September
30, 1936
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Letter to Ray Teague, October
13, 1936
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Letter to American Indemnity,
November 10, 1936
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Letter to Otis A. Kline, January
20, 1940
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Letter to
E. Hoffmann Price, March 8, 1943
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Letter to E. Hoffmann Price,
October 25, 1943
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Letter to E. Hoffmann Price,
December 28, 1943
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Letter to E. Hoffmann Price,
September 8, 1944
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Notes
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Edited
and notes by Rob Roehm
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Limited edition of 200 copies
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"Post Oaks and Sand Roughs"
includes the following two letters:
Letter to WESTERN STORY, ca. late fall 1924,
"—And I am not one of those writers . . ." (Brief
excerpt only, the letter is presumably lost.)
Letter to Herbert
Klatt, ca. Fall 1925,
"Bohut salaam, bahadur: / Again I write you, . . ."
(The letter is paraphrased.)
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All the texts were obtained
from Howard's original manuscripts, typescripts, carbons, or transcripts
thereof, with the following exceptions:
"Ambition in the Moonlight"
"Dula Due to Be Champ"
"The Galveston Affair"
Letter to Argosy All-Story Weekly, Spring 1929
Letter to Dime Sports, June 1936
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First appearance:
"What My Signature Means to Me"
"Spanish Gold on Devil Horse"
(early draft)
"Post Oaks and Sand Roughs"
(early draft)
"Letters from Mom"
"Unsigned contract"
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