January 31, 2003

Gordon MacCreagh: "The Incorrigible Explorer"

An extensive biographical essay about the pulp writer who may well have inspired the creation of celluloid adventurer Indiana Jones:

GORDON MacCREAGH
(August 8, 1886 - August 30, 1953)

By Peter Ruber

Richard Bleiler's massive Adventure magazine index provides an intriguing summation of Gordon MacCreagh's life: "Adventurer, explorer and author; his material usually had some basis of fact." Discovering what MacCreagh had written has been an easier task than documenting what he accomplished as an adventurer and explorer. But tantalizing fragments now emerging reveal his life was the stuff of legends.

To read the entire article, please click here.

Posted by ds at January 31, 2003 02:59 PM
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