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Emerson Hough (
1857-
1923) was an
American author, best known for writing
western stories.
Hough was born in
Newton, Iowa, and graduated from the
University of Iowa with a
law degree. He moved to
White Oaks, New Mexico, and practiced law there but eventually turned to literary work by taking camping trips and writing about them for publication.
He is best known as a
novelist, writing
The Mississippi Bubble as well as
The Covered Wagon, about
Oregon Trail pioneers,which later became successful as a movie, running 59 weeks at the
Criterion Theater in
New York City, passing the record set by
Birth of a Nation. Other notable works included
Story of the Cowboy,
Way of the West,
Singing Mouse Stories, and
Passing of the Frontier, and writing the "Out-of-Doors" column for the
Saturday Evening Post.
He created two play treatments with
L. Frank Baum:
The Maid of Athens: A College Phantasy, and
Thre King of Gee-Whiz. Neither of these was ever completed or staged, though the treatments can be found in
The Musical Fantasies of L. Frank Baum, edited by Alla T. Ford.
Hough was also a
conservationist, and was the catalyst behind a law passed by the
U.S. Congress to protect the
buffalo in
Yellowstone National Park. He married Charlotte Chesebro of
Chicago in 1897 and made that city his home.
Hough's hometown of Newton, Iowa has honored him by naming an
elementary school in his honor, (across the street from his boyhood home, which is marked with a tablet by the local chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution) as well as the local chapter of the
Izaak Walton League.
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