Della Gould Emmons

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Della Florence Gould Emmons (born August 12, 1890 in Glencoe , Minnesota , † November 6, 1983 in Tacoma , Washington ) was an American writer .

Life

Della Gould was the daughter of William George Gould and Anna Katherine Wadel. Her parents were in both the entertainment and jewelry businesses. Her older brother was the circus entrepreneur Jay Edward Gould . She graduated from the University of Minnesota and originally wanted to be a language teacher before teaching music and drama in Sisseton, South Dakota, near the Sioux reservation. On September 20, 1913, she married Allen B. Emmons, a train dispatcher. With him she moved several times over the years from town to town, to ever newer train stations, closely following the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail .

This was ultimately also the inspiration, which was processed in her debut novel Sacajawea of ​​the Shoshones , published in 1943 . She describes the Lewis and Clark expedition from the perspective of the Indian Sacajawea . With Fred MacMurray , Charlton Heston and Donna Reed , the book was filmed in 1955 under the title On the distant horizon . After she published her third book Leschi of the Nisquallies in 1965 , she was adopted by the Lummi tribe and given the name Selequal, which means something like 'girl of great calm'.

Emmons died on November 6, 1983 at the age of 93. After the death of her husband on June 5, 1958, she remained unmarried. The couple had two children together, a son and a daughter. When Emmons died, she left five grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

Works

  • Sacajawea of ​​the Shoshones (1943)
  • Nothing in Life is Free (1964)
  • Leschi of the Nisquallies (1965)
  • Jay Gould's Million Dollar Gems (1974)

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