Emerson Hough

Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was an American novelist and journalist, born in Newton, Iowa. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but gave up practice for writing, and in 1889 became western editor of Forest and Stream. His midwinter reporting from Yellowstone in the 1890s exposed the poaching of the park's last bison and helped push Congress to pass the Lacey Act. He is best remembered for The Mississippi Bubble (1902) and The Covered Wagon (1922), which became a landmark silent Western, along with North of 36 (1923).