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This April 2018 photo shows the residence of author Robert E. Howard in Cross Plains, Texas. Howard fans gather at the residence on the second weekend in June every year to remember the writer who died from a self inflicted gunshot wound on June 11, 1936. (Joe Holley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

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On a wall in the backroom of the Howard residence on the edge of town, home in the 1920s and '30s to Dr. and Mrs. Isaac Howard and their son, Robert, is a map of the world festooned with dozens of multicolored dots.

By JOE HOLLEY, Houston Chronicle May 14, 2018