People from Brown County, South Dakota - People from Aberdeen, South Dakota, Tom Daschle, L. Frank Baum, Terry Francona, Sam Barry, Debra Mooney (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: People from Aberdeen, South Dakota, Tom Daschle, L. Frank Baum, Terry Francona, Sam Barry, Debra Mooney, Dick Hustvedt, Ron Holgate, Harry Neal Baum, Justin Duchscherer, Josh Heupel, Fakir Musafar, David Charles Jones, Joseph Hansen, Earl Sande, Edward John Thye, Brad Walker, James H. Kyle, Royal C. Johnson, Taylor Mehlhaff, Charles N. Herreid, John Cacavas, Bruce Baillie, Jerry Burke, Lori Millin, Harvey C. Jewett IV. Excerpt: Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 - May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels), 82 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, laptop computers (The Master Key), robots (Ozma of Oz) wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work). Baum was born in Chittenango, New York in 1856, into a devout Methodist family of German (paternal line) and Scots-Irish (maternal line) origin, the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia Stanton and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood. He was named "Lyman" after his father's brother, but always disliked this name, and preferred to go by his middle name, "Frank." His mother, Cynthia Stanton, was a direct descendant of Thomas Stanton, one of the four Founders of what is now Stonington, Connecticut. Benjamin Baum was a wealthy businessman, originally a barrel maker, who had made his fortune in the oil fields of Pennsylvania. Baum ...