Robert E. Howard posing with a sip of beer. (via A Photographic Record Of Robert E. Howard - The REH Forum) “Howard had made a promise to his mother never to drink alcohol. However, while she was away from Cross Plains in June 1925, an oilman he met through his job at the Cross Plains Review offered him a bottle of beer. Howard liked it so much he... - http://nipresa.tumblr.com/post...