Gates of Empire (The Road of the Mountain Lion)

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in the 1939 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ''Gates of Empire'' is a story in the historical fiction genre. 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 st...