Emerson Hough

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Emerson Hough

American author and journalist

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…Log of a Cowboy (1903), Emerson Hough’s Covered Wagon (1922), from which the first important western film was made in 1923, Hamlin Garland’s Son of the Middle Border (1917), and O.E. Rölvaag’s Giants in the Earth (1927) all helped to make the form popular, but it is to Zane Grey—who…
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…Log of a Cowboy (1903), Emerson Hough’s Covered Wagon (1922), from which the first important western film was made in 1923, Hamlin Garland’s Son of the Middle Border (1917), and O.E. Rölvaag’s Giants in the Earth (1927) all helped to make the form popular, but it is to Zane Grey—who…
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