Texas' Greatest Cultural Icon or Power-Fantasy? Howard's Conan

A Cimmerian Issue that Plagues America still

To say that the issue of what Conan the Cimmerian or ‘Barbarian’ is, and the challenge of answering whether he’s nothing more than a stupid teenage boy’s power fantasy or cultural icon has plagued America for the better part of a century.

So embarrassed by academia and the literary-societies’ and civil-rights movements utter rejection of Conan, and Rober…