EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS MILLENNIUM
CALENDAR
Compiled by Bill Hillman
APRIL 2000
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Father George a retired Civil War Major and
rich whisky distiller
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1896: Resigned from his Academy position to enlist
in the U.S. Army
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1897: Joins brother Harry & Lew Sweetser at Nogales,
Arizona to help in the moving of a herd of starving Mexican cattle to Kansas
City.
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1898: Leaves by train to join his brothers in Pocatello,
Idaho in a houseboat. Meets an old Cavalry friend in Denver and celebrate
by hiring a band for a parade & by gambling away the rest of their
money.
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1918: Takes a business office at 1020 North Boulevard,
Oak Park which he also uses to recruit men for the reserve militia
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1929: Complains about the amount of royalties paid
by McClurg
1930: Leaves foreign agent, Curtis Brown. Dissatisfied
with Methuen & dwindling foreign sales
1935: Times photographers stake out Ed's house
1942: Completes the first of a series of radio programs
which CBS plans to air weekly on the mainland
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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1914: LL is purchased by All-Story
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1917: Returns to Oak Park to buy a larger home at
700 Linden Ave
1933: 3-7th Family vacation trip to Death Valley - Described
in Death Valley Expedition of the Intrepid Thirty-Threers
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1893: 4-6 Columbian Saddle Horse Show at the Detroit
Riding Club
1918: "How I Became an Author" article appears
in the Fine Arts Supplement of the Chicago Examiner
1924: article, "Out of Time's Abyss," appears
in The Urbanite
(paper of sons' military academy)
1935: Ed & Flo fly to Vegas for wedding & back
to LA
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1893: Rides with the Orchard Lake Cadets in exhibition
drills with and without saddle & equipment
1920: Mother Mary Evaline Burroughs dies in California
1935: Leave for Hawaiian honeymoon on S.S. Lurline - Captain's
table with Jeanette McDonald
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1893: Ed & his horse, Captain, win 2nd prize.
Audience & newspapers are enthusiastic
1917: US declares war on Germany
1927: Play: "Mary Who?" aka "Why Razz
the Kids" aka "Holy Bonds of Wedlock" is commenced. It
was perhaps written for Joan but was never published
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1941: Diary entries indicate that Ed has fallen into
deep depression & complete withdrawal
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10
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11
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12
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13
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14
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15
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1945: Jack sends a letter to Hulbert suggesting that
they find ways to keep Ed from returning to California as he believes his
father is considering marriage
1948: LA Times reports ERB is at fault in a 3-car accident
on Ventura Blvd outside ERB offices
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1935: Dock at Honolulu & receive leis sent by
Florence's friend Janet Gaynor
1935 (to May 11) Newlyweds swim, surf & relax on
their honeymoon in Hawaii
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1894: Ed is demoted to Cadet for "gross neglect of
duty while Officer of the Day."
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1892: While confined to MMA barracks is apprehended
climbing thru window
1914: EL starts 6-part run in Evening World
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1892: makes a successful escape from MMA & leaves
for home
1940: Flo & kids & her Packard sedan sail for
Hawaii on S.S. Matsonia to live. Ed is soon to follow
1942: Promoted to major in the BMTC
1945: "Laugh
It Off" praise for Democrat, President Truman. Criticizes errors
in Encyclopaedia Britannica on Indians & General Christmas
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1892: returns home & complains of harsh
treatment at MMA
1929: Hully & Jack rejected by West Point
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1892: Major Burroughs receives a telegraph from King
at MMS "Your son deserted Thursday letter will follow."
1914: Starts "A
Carthoris Story" (TMM)
1927: The War Chief appears in Argosy All-Story
in 5 parts
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1931: Tells United Features not to use children in
the Sunday colour page
1934: Moves from Garden of Allah to 2029 Pinehurst Road
- seeing Florence
1907: Ed is promoted to Manager of the Stenographic Dept
at Sears where he excels
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1892: King sends a letter detailing Ed's offenses.
Ed decides to return to the Academy and take his punishment
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1941: Sends Rothmund instructions to be followed
after his death
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1894: Homesick Ed indignantly explains his side of
the MMA offense in a letter to his father. He later climbs back up through
the ranks to Captain
1918: JO by McClurg & illos by St. John
1925: "The Red Hawk" the last of the Moon Maid
trilogy
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1930: Sends article Entertainment
is Fiction's Purpose Writer's Digest
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1919: Studley's
wife, Mary dies in childbirth. A broken Studley
moves to Tarzana where
he designs a golf course
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1940: Rents out Beverly Hills home & leaves for
Hawaii on S.S. Monterey - to live in Kailula Bay beachhouse
1944: Returns to Honolulu on a hospital plane after completing
a 7,000 mile mission
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1893: Sends a letter home describing school pranks
followed by an appeal for money to buy a fiery cavalry horse -"Captain"
1939: Another re-write of 1914's Angel's Serenade (rejected)
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1898: Seeking army employment, Ed writes Colonel
Rogers for assistance
1947: Sends an inquiry to the LA Examiner who reported
ERB as being deceased in their review of Tarzan and the Huntress.
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1942: Ashton Dearholt dies
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1931: Hires Van Nuys High School teacher Adele Bischoff
to proofread galley proofs of TI
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1935: Tarzan & Jane TQ rejected
by Argosy - too stereotyped
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1919: Starts "Under the Red Flag" MMa
1920: TU by McClurg
1937: Speech over radio station KFI in support of the
reelection of Mayor Frank L. Shaw
1942: Inspection tour of island defences with Major
Steere, Hawaiian Provost Marshall
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1924: Moscow journal laments that pirated ERB novels
are more popular than books about Marxism
1930: FMM
1940: TC start in Blue Book
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1930: writes Tarzan
Jr. for the miniature Fairy Castle Collection at Museum
of Science & Industry in Chicago. ERB & Jack illustrate this one
of a kind tiny book
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1932: First 3 Murder Mysteries appear in Script
1932: JG in ERB Inc. Studley
Burroughs illos - first DooDad appearance- What Good is Fiction?
on
DJ
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1943: Starts detailed account of the trip on the
Shaw in a 60-page story, "The Diary of a Confused Old Man or Buck Burroughs
Rides Again."
1943: Writes a letter (unsent) to Senator Johnson ~ Highly
critical of treatment received from the Navy - Refused to recognize his
army or correspondent credentials - Recommends the unification of American
forces
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1904: Idaho gold dredging company fails. Ed takes
a job as railroad policeman for the Oregon Short Line RR at Salt Lake City.
He is armed with a Colt six-gun, serial number 70495. They live at
111 North Fifth West Street
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