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Robert E. Howard was a history nerd, so that obviously had an influence, but another major inspiration for him was the Texas oil industry of all...

it's an interesting question but a lot of them got the ideas from historical pulp stuff (Alexander Dumas, the OG Swashbuckler writer). Harold...

The literary lineage is Walter Scott -> RL Stevenson -> H Rider Haggard -> everyone else. The ideas are/were everywhere: - IRL colonial...