About Willis George Emerson
Lived 1856 – 1918 (aged 62). Willis George Emerson was an American politician.
Willis George Emerson (1856–1918) was an American novelist (a pioneer of American science fiction), Chicago newspaperman, lawyer, politician, and promoter, who formed the North American Copper Company in Wyoming. He founded the town of Encampment, Wyoming.
He died at his home in Los Angeles on December 10, 1918.
Works Winning Winds (1885) Grey Rocks: A tale of the Middle West (1894) Was It a Crime? "Coin at School" dissected (1900) Buell Hampton (1902) The Builders (1906) The Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World (1908) The Treasure of Hidden Valley (1915) A Vendetta of the Hills (1917) The Man who Discovered Himself (1919)
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American writer
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Willis George Emerson was born on 28 March 1856 in Blakesburg.
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Willis George Emerson died on 10 December 1918 in Los Angeles.
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Willis George Emerson was a politician.
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