Master of Imaginative Fantasy Adventure
Creator of Tarzan®  and "Grandfather of American Science Fiction"

DECEMBER 2004
This month's highlights from the Burroughs Family of Websites

The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs

News Clippings from Around the World  Fans and Influences Edition CONTENTS:  Burroughs Boys At Work ~ "When I was twenty-one" ~ ERB the Cartoonist: Snake River ~ ERB Book Ad: 1922 ~ General King, 87, Offers Hand in Marriage ~ Burroughs Super Fan Publishes Magazine ~ Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Newspaper Serial Chapter ~ Tarzan Triumphant Book Ad ~ Tarzan Drum Beat Covers ~ Cyril Ralph Rothmund Signature ~ ERB, Inc. Secretary http://www.johncolemanburroughs.com/mag11/1198.html

A revealing article from  The Oakland Tribune Magazine ~ June 3, 1923 DIGNITY COMPLEX, AUTHOR'S FOE Author Now Working on Wild and Wooly Western Story for London Publisher   Using Own Experiences as Cowpuncher and Soldier http://www.johncolemanburroughs.com/mag12/1265.html

ERB / SEARS CONNECTION I with 50 Sears 3-D Stereoviews from ERB's Personal Library "So many people have written that I was a failure in business before I began writing that most people take for granted the statement's true. Contrary to that belief . . . Sears, Roebuck & Co. records . . . show I was a good departmental manager for them."  ~ ERB  http://www.johncolemanburroughs.com/mag12/1288.html with Stereoview Galleries in 3-D: 1 ~ 2 ~ 3 ~ 4

BURROUGHS FAMILY & TARZANA NEWS Collected from 20th Century North American Newspaper Files Newspaper clippings from the Hillman Collection  and Danton Burroughs Family Archive Cassia County, Idaho 1902 ~ Florence Gilbert film ~ Joan Burroughs hurdling ~ Mike Pierce ~ Fake Wrestlers ~ Hully at Guadalcanal ~ Marion Burroughs ~ JCB Art Exhibit ~ Tarzana Real Estate ~ ERB Featured at Library ~ Tarzan Revival ~ Hully & "son" Danton ~ ERB Rich Swinger  http://www.johncolemanburroughs.com/mag11/1197.html

FEATURE 1: ERBzine 1279 Chicago World's Fair of 1893 Ch. 5: Midway Adventure I The Great Wheel  http://www.erbzine.com/mag12/1279.html Plus Stereoview Album No. 5: Midway  http://www.erbzine.com/mag12/1279s.html

FEATURE 2: ERBzine 1333 Only A Hobo / The Big Rock Candy Mountain Edgar Rice Burroughs On The Road To Salvation by R. E. Prindle Part 3: On Auto Pilot In The Ozone I  http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1333.html

FEATURE 3: ERBzine 1310 An All-New Graphic Interpretation of  ERB's A Princess of Mars by James Killian Spratt Intro & Contents http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1301.html Ch. 9: I Learn the Language http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1310.html

THIS WEEK: FEATURES 5 - 7 We feature the "P" Shelves:  From: Broken Waters by Frank L. Packard To: Stolen Treasure by Howard Pyle Shelf PQ1  ~ Shelf PQ2 ~ Shelf PQ3 Authors in Alphabetical Order ~ Pictures of Authors ~ Titles with Publishing Information Titles Colour-coded to Indicate Source ~ Personal Inscriptions & Dedications ~ Biographies Autographs ~ Bibliographies of Other Relevant Titles ~ Cover Images Photographs ~ Interior Art ~ Letters ~ Excerpts ~ Trivia Reviews and Book Descriptions ~ Web Reference Links Links to Online e-Text for PD Titles

UPDATE FEATURE 8: ERBzine 0053 Part of our ERB Artist Series Studley Oldham Burroughs Nephew of Edgar Rice Burroughs Illustrator of Tarzan the Invincible, Jungle Girl, Tarzan Triumphant, & Apache Devil   http://www.erbzine.com/mag0/0053.html

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UPDATE FEATURE 9: ERBzine 1050 Letters to Home from Hartland Camp ~ Yale ~ Idaho ~ Chicago From the Burroughs Brothers: George and Harry Starting at: http://www.erbzine.com/mag10/1050.html

UPDATE FEATURE 10: ERBzine 0169 Memorabilia from the Jerry O'Hara collection  has been added to our Signal Oil Feature See Signal Dealer News ~ Vol. 1 No. 2 now at The Power of Tarzan on Radio http://www.erbzine.com/mag1/0169.html

FEATURE 1: ERBzine 1280 Chicago World's Fair of 1893 Ch. 6: Midway Adventure II Exotic Lands  http://www.erbzine.com/mag12/1280.html Plus Stereoview Album No. 5: Midway  http://www.erbzine.com/mag12/peep/

FEATURE 2: ERBzine 1334 Only A Hobo / The Big Rock Candy Mountain Edgar Rice Burroughs On The Road To Salvation by R. E. Prindle Part 3b: On Auto Pilot In The Ozone II  http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1334.html

FEATURE 3: ERBzine 1311 ERB's A Princess of Mars Illustrated by James Killian Spratt Intro & Contents http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1301.html Ch. 10: Champion and Chief http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1311.html

UPDATE FEATURE 8: ERBzine 1046 Edgar Rice Burroughs The Oldest War Correspondent of WWII Christmas and New Years in Australia ~ 1942/1943 Journal Entries ~ Photos ~ Clippings ~ WWII Links  http://www.erbzine.com/mag10/1046.html

UPDATE FEATURE 9: ERBzine 0927 PERSONAL ANECDOTES  OF THE CIVIL WAR As Narrated By MAJOR GEORGE T. BURROUGHS A Night Ride With Moseby ~ A Close Call The Beginning of Sheridan's Ride ~ Colonel Vinton  http://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0927.html

UPDATE FEATURE 10: ERBzine 0980 The Swann auction of books  from the personal collection of  Hulbert Burroughs   http://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0980.html

FEATURE 1: ERBzine 1281 Chicago World's Fair of 1893 Ch. 7:  Ed Meets Tesla: Master Mind of The World of Tomorrow  http://www.erbzine.com/mag12/1281.html Plus Stereoview Album No. 6: Ed's Tour I  http://www.erbzine.com/mag12/1281s.html

FEATURE 2: ERBzine 1335 Tales of Space and Time #1 In Quest of  The Origin of Tarzan by R. E. Prindle  http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1335.html

FEATURE 3: ERBzine 1312 ERB's A Princess of Mars Illustrated by James Killian Spratt Intro & Contents http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1301.html Ch. 11: With Dejah Thoris http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1312.html

UPDATE FEATURE 10: E-Text The ERB Personal Library Project Continues H. H. Knibbs'  Tang of Life: Jim Waring of Sonora-Town The complete text and interior illustrations from a  prized book in ERB's personal library. Western adventure by ERB's favourite poet. www.erbzine.com/craft/hhk.html

NEW FEATURE 11: ERBzine 1351 A GUIDE TO  THE MARS NOVELS OF  EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Collated References from the ERBzine.com Site Culled from the +4,000 Webpage Archive at: www.ERBzine.com/all   http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1351.html

UPDATE FEATURE 12: ERBzine.com/apa Just Released: ERBapa 83: Fall 2004 ~ Issue No. 83 Colonel Henry Franke's last issue as O.E.  before leaving for a year's tour of duty in Iraq Contents: Contributors and Descriptions of Articles  http://www.erbzine.com/apa Index of ERBapa Issues II ERBapa Cover Gallery Beyond 50

FEATURE 1: ERBzine 1282 Chicago World's Fair of 1893 Ch. 8:  Ed and His Electric Flyer  http://www.erbzine.com/mag12/1282.html Rare first-seen pics plus Stereoview Album No. 8: Ed's Tour II  http://www.erbzine.com/mag12/1282s.html

FEATURE 2: ERBzine 1337 Tarzan Plays Homage to Heracles by R. E. Prindle  http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1337.html

FEATURE 3: ERBzine 1313 ERB's A Princess of Mars Illustrated by James Killian Spratt Intro & Contents http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1301.html Ch. 12: A Prisoner with Power http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1313.html

THIS WEEK: FEATURES 5 & 6 We feature the 2 "T" Shelves: From: The Pilgrim Maid by Marion Ames Taggart To: Tom Sawyer Stories by Mark Twain Shelf T1  ~ Shelf T2 Authors in Alphabetical Order ~ Pictures of Authors ~ Titles with Publishing Information Titles Colour-coded to Indicate Source ~ Personal Inscriptions & Dedications ~ Biographies Autographs ~ Bibliographies of Other Relevant Titles ~ Cover Images Photographs ~ Interior Art ~ Letters ~ Excerpts ~ Trivia Reviews and Book Descriptions ~ Web Reference Links Links to Online e-Text for PD Titles

Merry Christmas from the Hillmans This year's Xmas WebCard is displayed at: www.hillmans.soupbo.com/xmas Our Theme for this year is  A Victorian Christmas featuring  100 3-D StereoView cards from the 1890s: http://www.hillmans.soupbo.com/xmas/stereo.html Wishing you a Happy Holiday and all the best for 2005 www.HillmanWeb.com

XMAS FEATURE 11: ERBzine 0993 Christmas  in  "The Good Old Days" by David Adams  http://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0993.html

XMAS FEATURE 12: ERBzine 1046 ERB's Christmas in Australia 1942 Ed had an early Christmas morning Australian breakfast -- everything passed the test except for the coffee which tasted like ether. After a walk around the city to deliver a message he returned to his room to write a story. He spent the afternoon in the hotel lounge chatting with a P-38 pilot just in from Guadalcanal. Ed and Freeman then took a tram to King's Cross for a Christmas steak supper. http://www.erbzine.com/mag10/1046.html

Bob with Dian, Mary, Danton, John and Hully

XMAS FEATURE 13: ERBzine 0696 Bob Hyde's  Christmas with the Burroughs Family 1963 from Odyssey of a Tarzan FANatic Ch. XXVI  http://www.erbzine.com/mag6/0696.html

More Christmas Features in ERBzine
JCB's Xmas Gift to Frank Shonfeld ~ Founder of ECOF
From ERB's Library: Colonel Carter's Christmas:
The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman ~ 1903
Starts with "To my reast it will be remembered ... Colonel Carter. . . Cartersville, Viriginia ~ Carter: "a stock figure the mint-julep-drinking Southern gentleman, hospitable, simple-hearted, brimming over w/ eloquence and gallantry, at sea in commerical new York, where he is ready to fight a duel with anyone whom he believes to have offended his honor, but evenutally resued from penury by the discovery of coal on his property"
Joan Burroughs Pierce Biography in ERBzine
"Ed's lack of funds resulted in his creating personalized drawings and verses
for home-made Christmas cards that he sent out to family that year." etc.
Xmas with the Burroughs Kids

FEATURE 1: ERBzine 1286 Hillman Log Notes Series A PRINCESS OF MARS Part I A Study Guide for Fans, Teachers and Researchers These log notes sequentially pinpoint the important events throughout  the novel.  The information is  presented in the form of 530 questions and answers.  The answers are invisible until the reader drags his mouse across the screen  which highlights the hidden answer text. Each chapter title bar has links to the novel text and to  the Spratt graphic novel interpretation  http://www.erbzine.com/mag12/1286.html

FEATURE 2: ERBzine 1283 Ed Burroughs' Remarkable Summer of '93 Chicago World's Fair: Columbian Exposition Every Chapter ~ All-Text Version  http://www.erbzine.com/mag12/1283.html  Stereoview Album: Ed's Expo Memories http://www.erbzine.com/mag12/1283s.html

FEATURE 3: ERBzine 1339 The Magic Shop: Time Travel in Einstein's Universe by Dugald Warbaby and Dr. Anton Polarion (aka R. E. Prindle) http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1339.html

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FEATURE 4: ERBzine 1314 ERB's A Princess of Mars Illustrated by James Killian Spratt Intro & Contents http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1301.html Chapter 13: Love-Making On Mars http://www.erbzine.com/mag13/1314.html

THIS WEEK: FEATURES 6 - 8 We feature the "UV and W1 & W2" Shelves From: Headhunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure by Fritz W. Up De Graff To: Under the Red Robe by Stanley J. Weyman Shelf UV1 ~ Shelf W1 ~ Shelf W2 Authors in Alphabetical Order ~ Pictures of Authors ~ Titles with Publishing Information Titles Colour-coded to Indicate Source ~ Personal Inscriptions & Dedications ~ Biographies Autographs ~ Bibliographies of Other Relevant Titles ~ Cover Images Photographs ~ Interior Art ~ Letters ~ Excerpts ~ Trivia Reviews and Book Descriptions ~ Web Reference Links Links to Online e-Text for PD Titles

ARCHIVE FEATURE 10: ERBzine 0990 Tarzan in the Holy Land A series of ERBzine features by Eli Eshed  presenting the importance of ERB in Israel: Publishing History ~ Story Descriptions ~  Artwork ~ Covers ~ Links  http://www.erbzine.com/mag9/0990.html

ARCHIVE FEATURE 11: ERBzine 0840 Tarzan of the Apes  View Master Adventures 3-D Images  http://www.erbzine.com/mag8/0840.html

UPDATE FEATURE 12: ERBzine 0711 BURROUGHS BIBLIO-PRO-PHILE SERIES Introduction & Navigation Guide Our tribute to outstanding members of the Burroughs Bibliophiles whose contributions to ERB fandom have been instrumental in immortalizing the life and works of the Master of Adventure: Edgar Rice Burroughs  http://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0711.html

The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs