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Show NOTED AUTHOR OF COVERED WAGON DIES IN" CHICAGO Chicago, April CO Emerson Hough novelist and author for 3 0 years of popular works, died in a hospital here today. An operation was performed per-formed Saturday in an effort to re-, lieve him of intestinal malady. Hough's most recent work that greatly heightened his popularity was "The Covered Wagon," adapted only lately to motion pictures. The author's widow is his sole j survivor. Hough was born in Newton, Iowa, and was 66 years old:. He was graduated in 1880 from the State University of Iowa. , Hough was noted for his fondness j for his out of doors. Most of his writings were of that tinge. In 1895 he toured Yellowstone National park on skiis and it was through his efforts ef-forts after this that legislation was enacted for the protection of the rapidly perishing buffalo herds of the west. |