Rex Beach
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Rex Ellingwood Beach (September 1, 1877 – December 7, 1949) was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player.
Early life
Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan, but he and his family migrated to Tampa, Florida, where his father was planting fruit trees. Beach, 1891–1896), the Chicago College of Law (1896–97), and Kent College of Law, Chicago (1899–1900). In 1900, he was taken to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Writing career
He went back to writing after five years of unsuccessful prospecting. The Spoilers (1906), his second book, was based on a true tale of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, which he encountered while prospecting in Nome, Alaska. The Spoilers became one of 1906's best-selling books.
Throughout the early 1900s, Jack London's adventure books, which were heavily inspired by Jack London, were extremely popular. Beach was lauded as the "Victor Hugo of the North," but others found his books formulaic and predictable. Critics characterized them as "he-man school" of literature. Beach's works are "mercifully forgotten today," historian Stephen Haycox has said.
The Silver Horde (1909), one of a series of down on his luck gold miner who discovers more riches in Alaska's run of salmon (silver horde), is set in Kalvik, a fictionalized community in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and decides to open a cannery. He must overcome the insistence of his "salmon faith" in the wake of a longshoremen's protest and bribes his fishermen to leave in order to do so. The protagonist is forced to choose between his fiancée, a wealthy banker's daughter, and an earnest roadhouse operator, a woman of "questionable character," according to the story line. Crescent Porter Hale, a real-life cannery superintendent, has been credited with being the inspiration for The Silver Horde, but it is unlikely Beach and Hale ever met.
Following success in literature, many of his books were turned into hit films; The Spoilers were turned into movie films five times from 1914 to 1955, with Gary Cooper and John Wayne playing "Roy Glennister" in 1930 and 1942, respectively.
The Silver Horde was turned into a film twice, including Myrtle Blythe, Curtis Cooksey and Betty Blythe, directed by Frank Lloyd; and a talkie version The Silver Horde (1930) starring Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea and Evelyn Brent; and a silent film starring Myrtle Stedman, Joel McCreay and Betty Blythe starring George Archainbaud.
Beache occasionally directed his films and wrote a number of plays with varying success. Beach was paid $25,000 to produce The Miracle of Coral Gables, a planned city in 1926, to advertise the real estate development of Coral Gables, Florida.
