The Bastrop, Texas house that stood in for the home of Robert E. Howard, was the World War II residence of Judge C.B. Maynard, a Major in the J.A.G. office at U.S. Army training center Camp Swift. On October 6, 1942, a G.I. trainee who had been institutionalized before induction kidnapped and choked to death the judge's eight-year-old daughter. Apprehended immediately in a stolen car, he was found guilty at a court-martial and sentenced to hang. He was executed on March 19, 1943. The Maynard family left Bastrop later.

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