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Emerson Hough

Born

in Newton, Iowa, The United States

June 28, 1857

Died

April 30, 1923

Genre

History, Nonfiction

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Emerson Hough was an American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels.

He married Charlotte Chesebro of Chicago in 1897 and made that city his home. During World War I, he served as a Captain with the Intelligence Service. He died in Evanston, Illinois, on April 30, 1923, a week after seeing the Chicago premiere of the movie The Covered Wagon, based on his 1922 book. Covered Wagon was his biggest best-selling novel since Mississippi Bubble in 1902. "North of 36", another Hough novel, later became a popular silent film as well, "making him one of the first Western authors to enter into the motion picture industry." He is buried in Galesburg, Illinois.

Asked in 1918 to provide some details of his own life, he replied ...more

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	The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado 3.53 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2001 — 114 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Covered Wagon 3.65 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1922 — 135 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mississippi Bubble & The Way To The West (America, free, western, cowboy, books, Kindle, new Book 2) 3.38 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Law of the Land 3.47 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1905 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rough Trip Through Yellowstone by Emerson Hough, Scott Herring (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West 3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1918 — 146 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chronicles of the Old West - 4 Historical Books Exploring the Wild Past of the American West: Cowboys, Outlaws, and the Opening of the Wild West by Emerson Hough, Charles Marion Russell (Illustrator), Frederic Remington (Illustrator) 3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	54-40 or Fight by Emerson Hough, Arthur I. Keller (Illustrator) 3.08 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1909 — 140 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sagebrusher A Story of the West 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2007 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lady and the Pirate 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2007 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Each land in the world produces its own men individually bad - and, in time, other bad men who kill them for the greater good.”
― Emerson Hough

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“Each having thus delivered himself of words which meant nothing, both now seated themselves and proceeded to look mighty grave.”
― Emerson Hough, 54-40 or Fight

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“The white bad man is the worst bad man of the world, and the prize-taking bad man of the lot is the Western white bad man.”
― Emerson Hough, The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado

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