Beyond the Black River

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Johan Christian Dahl, George Catlin and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. Conan on the Pictish frontier, in the story Howard cared most about: a wilderness stockade, settlers who should not be there, a shaman across the river, and a retreat that saves almost nobody. Howard grew up on Texas frontier talk from men who remembered it, and put the whole a...