EMERSON HOUGH
\ˈɛməsən hˈə͡ʊ], \ˈɛməsən hˈəʊ], \ˈɛ_m_ə_s_ə_n h_ˈəʊ]\
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An American traveler and writer; born in Newton, Ia., June 28, 1857. He traveled over the wildest parts of the West and explored the Yellowstone Park in the winter of 1895. The Act of Congress protecting the Park buffalo was due to this latter trip. Author of: "The Singing Mouse Stories" (1895); "The Story of the Cowboy" (1895); "The Girl at Half-Way House" (1900); "The Way of Man" (1907).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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