Hough, Emerson
1857 - On the 28th of June, Hough Emerson was born in Newton, Iowa.
1880 - He graduated from the State University of Iowa. He studied law and earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree.
- Moved to White Oaks, New Mexico to practice law. He eventually turned to literary work by taking camping trips and writing about them for publication.
1897 - The Story of the Cowboy is a documentary account of the Southwest cattle industry, which attempts to correct the romantic image of the cowboy popularized in dime novels. The account gains major success.
1922 - Hough's most acclaimed work is The Covered Wagon, an accurate account of a trip on the Oregon Trail in 1848. The Covered Wagon became a successful movie that ran for 59 weeks at the Criterion Theater in New York City.
- His other works include The Mississippi Bubble, Way of the West, Singing Mouse Stories, Passing of the Frontier.
- As a conservationist, he was the catalyst behind a law passed by the U.S. Congress to protect the buffalo in Yellowstone National Park.
1897 - He married Charlotte Chesebro of Chicago and made that city his home.
- Newton, Iowa honored him by naming an elementary school after him as well as the local chapter of the Izaak Walton League.
1923 - He dies this year.
1880 - He graduated from the State University of Iowa. He studied law and earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree.
- Moved to White Oaks, New Mexico to practice law. He eventually turned to literary work by taking camping trips and writing about them for publication.
1897 - The Story of the Cowboy is a documentary account of the Southwest cattle industry, which attempts to correct the romantic image of the cowboy popularized in dime novels. The account gains major success.
1922 - Hough's most acclaimed work is The Covered Wagon, an accurate account of a trip on the Oregon Trail in 1848. The Covered Wagon became a successful movie that ran for 59 weeks at the Criterion Theater in New York City.
- His other works include The Mississippi Bubble, Way of the West, Singing Mouse Stories, Passing of the Frontier.
- As a conservationist, he was the catalyst behind a law passed by the U.S. Congress to protect the buffalo in Yellowstone National Park.
1897 - He married Charlotte Chesebro of Chicago and made that city his home.
- Newton, Iowa honored him by naming an elementary school after him as well as the local chapter of the Izaak Walton League.
1923 - He dies this year.
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