On January 29th Howard got a letter from Wilfred B. Talman saying:

About a week ago I learned that an article from you had come into this office.

The article was of course "The Ghost of Camp Colorado".

In a letter (#154) to Tevis Clyde Smith circa mid to late-January 1931 Howard writes:

I got a letter from Talman of the Texas Company saying that he hadn’t seen my Camp Colorado article, but had an idea that the moguls had approved of it. I hope so.

And in a letter (#157) from February 1931 to Talman we learn:

I hope your company can use the article I sent them, as I think the readers would find the subject matter interesting, at least. It deals, as of course you know if you’ve seen the article, with old Camp Colorado, which is situated some twenty-five miles southwest of this town and was one of a string of army posts which was literally the Southwestern frontier in the 1850s. I have some more articles in mind which I hope will find a place in your publication.

Again in a letter (#165) to Tevis Clyde Smith:

The address of the Texaco Star is The Texas Company 135 East 42nd Street, New York. Hope you sell them a flock of stuff, and I’m sure you will. Wish you’d get me a Frontier Times and keep it till I see you; I want to see my reprint, also the review they gave your book.

The reprint mentioned was of "The Ghost of Camp Colorado". It was reprinted in Frontier Times, in June 1931.

In June 1931, Howard thanked Lovecraft in a letter (#169):

And by the way, I want to thank you again for suggesting my name to Mr. Talman as a possible contributor to The Texaco Star. I’m sending you a copy of the publication, containing my article on old Camp Colorado, which Mr. Talman tells me received quite a bit of favorable comment from the moguls of the company. I’ve had time only to work up the one article, but hope to be able to place more of them soon. And I have you to thank, for had you not suggested me to Mr. Talman I’d never have placed the article.

Howard's father, Dr. I. M. Howard wrote a handwritten letter to H. P. Lovecraft on November 21, 1936 with a copy of Coleman Democratic Voice, containing Howard's article.

Mr. H. P. Lovecraft—I am sending you today, under separate cover, the Centennial Edition of the Coleman Democratic Voice. It contains a write up of Old Camp Colorado, or Colorado Post. It was written several years ago by Robert. The envelope also contains an answer to Mr. Wright’s letter of enquiry relative to Robert’s Literary degrees. Of course, Robert had no degrees as his letter to Mr. Wright . Robert, like myself, did not underestimate the value of education. Without educations we both tried to carry on as best we could.

Yours Sincerely,
Doctor I. M. Howard