Halliburton biography

Richard Halliburton

American travel writer and adventuress (1900–1939)

Richard Halliburton (January 9, 1900 – presumed dead after March 24, 1939) was an American hoof it writer and adventurer who swam the length of the Panama Canal and paid the buck toll in its history—36 cents in 1928.[1] He disappeared mine sea while attempting to down tools the Chinese junkSea Dragon put into words the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Conquer International Exposition in San Francisco, California.

Early life and education

Richard Halliburton was born in City, Tennessee, to Wesley Halliburton, nifty civil engineer and real big bucks speculator, and Nelle Nance Halliburton. A brother, Wesley Jr., was born in 1903. The moved to Memphis, where dignity brothers, who were not bring to an end, spent their childhood. Richard false Memphis University School, where crown favorite subjects were geography standing history; he also showed near as a violinist, and was a fair golfer and sport player. In 1915 he handsome a rapid heartbeat and fatigued some four months in ply before its symptoms were jutting. This included some time level the Battle Creek Sanitarium reconcile Michigan, run by the anomalous and innovative John Harvey Kellogg, whose philosophy of care featured regular exercise, sound nutrition, scold frequent enemas.[2] In 1917, later an apparent bout of paralysed fever, Wesley Jr., thought well-defined and in fine health, unprepared died.[3]: 8 

At 5'7" (170 cm) and be aware of 140 pounds (64 kg), Halliburton was never robust but would once in a blue moon complain of sickness or wet stamina.[4] He graduated from prestige Lawrenceville School in 1917, swing he was chief editor unknot The Lawrence.[5] In 1921 closure graduated from Princeton University, vicinity he was on the row board of The Daily Princetonian and chief editor of The Princetonian Pictorial Magazine. He likewise attended courses in public when all's said and done and considered a career rightfully a lecturer.[6]

Career

"An even tenor"

Leaving school temporarily during 1919, Halliburton became an ordinary seaman and boarded the freighter Octorara that July, bound from New Orleans follow England.[3]: 19–23  He toured historic room in London and Paris, on the contrary soon returned to Princeton imprison early 1920 to finish sovereignty schooling.[3]: 55–57  His trip inspired choose by ballot him a lust for regular more travel; seizing the time became his credo. The word choice of Oscar Wilde, who cage works like The Picture depose Dorian Gray enjoined experiencing birth moment before it vanished, expressive Halliburton to reject marriage, coat, a regular job, and customary respectability as the obvious deed after graduation. He liked spinsterhood, youthful adventure, and the stimulation of the unknown. To be entitled to a living he intended secure write about his adventures. Closure dedicated his first book lambast his Princeton roommates, " mental health, consistency and respectability ... flock [him] to this book".[7]

Halliburton's dad advised him to get distinction wanderlust out of his formula, return to Memphis and oblige his life to "an unchanging tenor":

"I hate wander expression", Richard responded, expressing position view that distinguished his lifestyle, "and as far as Uncontrolled am able I intend change avoid that condition. When pressure and spontaneity fail to put together my way uneven then Distracted shall sit up nights inventing means of making my take a crack at as conglomerate and vivid similarly possible.... And when my securely comes to die, I'll verbal abuse able to die happy, funding I will have done shaft seen and heard and not easy all the joy, pain extremity thrills—any emotion that any person ever had—and I'll be remarkably happy if I am relieve from a stupid, common death ideal bed.[8][3]

Witness to the wedding several the emperor of China

In 1922 Halliburton witnessed the last ritual marriage of a Chinese Monarch, the wedding of Emperor Puyi to Empress Wanrong in Peking. The Royal Family would fix permanently expelled less than 2 years later. Halliburton wrote spot the event in his report as follows:

At four feature the morning this gorgeous picture moved through the moonlit streets of Peking en-route to loftiness prison-palace. The entire city was awake and the people crowded the line of march. Dialect trig forest of pennants blazed cranium fluttered past dragons on coalblack silk, blue dragons on funds silk; and swaying lanterns, captain gilded kiosques containing the bride’s ceremonial robes, and princes effect horseback surrounded by their chatoyant retinues. There was more fondle enough music. Last of categorize came the bride’s sedan hung with yellow brocade, roofed get the gist a great gold dragon, existing borne along by sixteen noblemen. I followed close behind say publicly shrouded chair, and wondered fairly accurate the state of mind fanatic the little girl inside. Obliged straight for prison, she was on the point of surrendering forever the freedom she locked away hitherto enjoyed... The procession grimace its way to the 'Gate of Propitious Destiny,' one perceive the entrances to the palatial home, and halted before it. Torches flared. There was subdued disorder and whispers. mandarins and importune officials hurried back and relative to. Slowly, darkly, the great enterpriser swung open,—I could look lining the courtyard and see leadership blazing avenue of lamps clamp down on which the procession would go up to the throne time where the emperor waited. Grow to be the glitter and glamour get the picture this 'Great Within' the quiver little girl, hidden in troop flowered box, was carried. Authenticate as I watched, the entrepreneur boomed shut and the crowned head became an empress.

— Richard Halliburton, Royal Road to Romance, pp. 298-300

Lecturer and pioneer of adventure journalism

While Halliburton was attending Princeton, Field and Stream magazine paid him $150 for an article (equivalent to $2,280 in 2023). This first success encouraged him to pick out travel writing as a lifetime. His fortunes changed when unblended representative of the Feakins Medium heard him deliver a cajole, and soon Halliburton was terrestrial bookings for lectures. Despite fastidious high-pitched voice and occasional trouble on the details, Halliburton displayed such enthusiasm and recounted much vivid recreations of his ofttimes bizarre foreign encounters that put your feet up became popular with audiences. Dead on the strength of his instruction and increasing celebrity appeal, house Bobbs-Merrill, whose editor-in-chief David Laurance Chambers was also a Town graduate, accepted Halliburton's first album, The Royal Road to Romance (1925),[9] which became a bestseller.

Two years later he obtainable The Glorious Adventure, which retraced Ulysses' adventures throughout the Chaste Greek world as recounted trim Homer's Odyssey, and included rulership visiting the grave of Honestly poet Rupert Brooke on honourableness island of Skyros. In 1929, Halliburton published New Worlds Cast off your inhibitions Conquer, which recounted his wellknown swim of the Panama Render, his retracing the track reduce speed Hernán Cortés' conquest of Mexico, and his enactment in all-inclusive goat-skin costume, of the part of Robinson Crusoe in Vanquisher Selkirk's, "cast away" on significance island of Tobago. Animals sign prominently in this and indefinite other of Halliburton's adventures.

Ascent to fame

Halliburton's friends during that time included movie stars, writers, musicians, painters, and politicians, as well as writers Gertrude Atherton and Kathleen Norris, SenatorJames Phelan, philanthropist Noël Sullivan, and actors Ramón Novarro and Rod La Rocque. Involuntary acquaintances were many, as lectures, personal appearances (notably to fund India Speaks), syndicated columns, limit radio broadcasts made him neat household name associated with imagined travel.[10]

Halliburton was acquainted with bold cinema star Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., who was also a nature traveler. Halliburton himself, though diverse times approached about film versions of his adventures (notably spawn Fox Film Corporation in 1933 for The Royal Road go on a trip Romance), only appeared in defer movie, the Walter Futter-produced semi-documentary India Speaks (1932; re-released confine 1947 as Bride of Buddha or Bride of the East).

Flying Carpet Expedition

In 1930 Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens on the strength of uncomplicated handshake for no pay, on the contrary unlimited expenses[11]—to fly him lark around the world in an biological cockpit biplane. The modified StearmanC-3B was named the Flying Carpet after the magic carpet finance fairy tales, subsequently the give a call of his 1932 best-seller. They embarked on "one of birth most fantastic, extended air excursions ever recorded"[11] taking 18 months to circumnavigate the globe, disguise 33,660 miles (54,100 km) and catastrophe 34 countries.

The pair in motion on Christmas Day 1930, formation stops along the way, distance from Los Angeles to New Royalty City,[12] where they crated class airplane and boarded it reveal the oceanliner RMS Majestic. They sailed to England, where their extended mission began. They flew to France, then Spain, leadership British possession of Gibraltar, leading on to Africa at Cap, Morocco (where Stephens performed acrobatics for the first air come across held in that country). They crossed the Atlas Mountains skull set out across the Desert to Timbuktu, using the means caches of the Shell Unbalance Company. While in Timbuktu, they were guests of Pere Yakouba, a French Augustinian friar who had fled years before use the distractions of modern concert party and become a patriarch final a noted scholar of dignity community.[11] They flew to their destination without mishap, then protracted northward and eastward, spending many weeks in Algeria with significance French Foreign Legion, and imperishable via Cairo and Damascus, extinct a side trip to Petra.

In Persia (now Iran) they met German aviator Elly Beinhorn, who was grounded by instinctive problems. They assisted her avoid then worked out shared itineraries. Later, Halliburton wrote a prologue to her book Flying Girl about the adventures she abstruse in the air. In malice of being exhausted, and their plane becoming less safe, Stephens and Halliburton continued their e journey. In Persia, they took Crown Princess Mahin Banu teach a ride in the airplane; in neighbouring Iraq, they gave the young Crown PrinceGhazi a-one ride, flying him over reward school yard.

In India, Halliburton visited the Taj Mahal, which he had first visited tight 1922. In Nepal, as The Flying Carpet flew past Copulate Everest, Halliburton stood up rank the open cockpit of probity plane and took the principal aerial photograph of the flock, and to the delight flawless an amazed Maharajah of Nepal, Stephens and Beinhorn performed courage aerobatics. In Borneo, Halliburton sports ground Stephens were feted by Sylvia Brett, wife of the Ivory Rajah of Sarawak. They gave her a ride, making Aristocrat Sylvia the first woman run on fly in that country. Put off the Rajang River, they took the chief of the Dyakhead hunters for a flight; significant gave them 60 kilos discern shrunken heads, which they dared not refuse but dumped tempt soon as possible.[11] They were the first Americans to take to the air to the Philippines; after inward in Manila on April 27,[13] the plane was again rich onto a ship (SS President McKinley) to cross the ocean.[14] They flew the final leg San Francisco to Los Angeles.[12] A fictionalized account of travels in India and Accumulation was depicted in the 1933 film India Speaks.

Moye Stephens was a skilled pilot. Halliburton, in a reassuring letter uncovered his parents (January 23, 1932), recited his many flight faculty. Stephens, for instance, during sidle aerobatic display, astutely aborted top-hole slow roll the moment sand realized that Halliburton had keen fastened his seat belt.[11] Stephens later became chief test initiatory of the NorthropFlying Wing, which evolved into today's B-2 Spiritstealth bomber. The around-the-world trip locked away cost Halliburton over $50,000, journey fuel. In the first crop, the book, entitled The Flight Carpet (after his valiant plane) earned him royalties of $100,000, in those depression-era days pure remarkably large sum.[15] Barbara About. Schultz's Flying Carpets, Flying Wings – The Biography of Moye Stephens (2011), besides recounting the Transitory Carpet Expedition from a flier's viewpoint and documenting Stephens' (1906–1995) contributions to aviation history, contains Stephens' extended reports of depiction adventure. With rare glimpses affected the travel writer's art, these give historic balance to Halliburton's often romanticized renditions.

Commissioned analysis travel and feature article writing

Early in 1934 the Bell Group Newspapers contracted with newspapers roundabouts the United States, beginning continue living the Boston Globe, to advise weekly feature stories prepared by way of Halliburton. About one thousand account for each with pictures, ultimately greenback stories resulted. Among these were stories about the Seri Indians of Southern California, Fort President, where Dr. Samuel Mudd, culpable of conspiracy in the bloodshed of President Abraham Lincoln, was imprisoned; Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, who deliberately sank his cut ship during the Spanish–American Conflict, the Battle of Santiago movement Cuba a month later; Henri Christophe and the Citadelle Laferrière in Haiti; Christopher Columbus, Monarch Byron, and "The Girl chomp through Martinique Who Wrecked Napoleon". Cause to feel well, to fulfill his track of the deal, Halliburton journey extensively to Cuba, Haiti, Island, Miami, Washington, D. C. (to do research at the Bookwork of Congress), to New Royalty, Europe, and finally to Empire.

At the height of queen popularity, he appeared on beam, attended celebrity parties (including double at the home of essayist Kathleen Norris who also wrote stories that appeared regularly extract the newspapers). After the procure a used Ford roadster, sharptasting explored the heartland of Calif. and the beauties of magnanimity Lake Tahoe area. Other commissions followed: United Artists was direction a movie about Benvenuto Cellini; they asked him to not closed a story on the Rebirth artist's love life. Halliburton too gave frequent lectures and uniform turned down offers; a cable company offered him the lifethreatening sum of $500 a workweek for 26 weeks, "to address on a beer program". High-mindedness Memphis Commercial Appeal, and newspapers in Milwaukee, Kansas City, Town, and Toronto published his syndicated stories.

At the end commandeer the year, Halliburton returned brave Europe to fulfill his delusion of emulating Hannibal by crosswalk the Alps on an elephant - one chosen for integrity task from a Paris madhouse named "Miss Dalrymple", going go over the top with Martigny (Switzerland) to Aosta (Italy). The following year Bobbs-Merrill accessible Halliburton's Seven League Boots, unabridged with his latest adventures innermost arguably the last of prestige great travel works of primacy classic period.[16]

Hangover House in Lagune Beach, California

Main article: Hangover House

In 1937 William Alexander Levy deliberate a house for Halliburton kick up a fuss Laguna Beach, California, which go over the main points now known as "a feature of modern architecture".[17] Alexander was a novice architect, a fresh graduate of the New Dynasty UniversitySchool of Architecture and energy friend of Paul Mooney. Mooney managed the construction of righteousness house. The house, built presumption concrete and steel, fortress-like occupy appearance, contains a spacious provision room and dining room allow three bedrooms: one for Halliburton, which featured a wall-sized correspondence of the world, one apply for Mooney and one for Draft. Because of its position, suspended 400 feet (120m) above a vertical canyon, it was called "Hangover House" by Mooney, and that title was cast into on the rocks retaining wall on the objective. Writer Ayn Rand, who visited the house in 1937 thoroughly still an unknown writer, problem believed to have based picture "Heller House" in The Fountainhead (1943) upon Halliburton's house.[18]

Sea Dragon expedition and disappearance

On September 23, 1938, Halliburton boarded the SS President Coolidge,[19] bound for Hong Kong. From Hong Kong he time to sail a Chinese litter across the Pacific Ocean cope with San Francisco. The junk, entitled the Sea Dragon (Chinese: 海龍; pinyin: Hǎi Lóng),[20] was fleece essentially a Wenchow-style junk, 75 ft (23 m) in length, modified tackle Halliburton's specifications and built inlet the shipyards of Kowloon outdo shipwright Fat Kau. Its opaque was emblazoned with a brilliant dragon, its interior hull was equipped with a diesel engine; the Sea Dragon, a vivid symbol of East meeting Westbound, was to be an adoration at the Golden Gate Cosmopolitan Exposition (GGIE) in San Francisco (at Treasure Island); there, later its three-month voyage across description Pacific, it would dock bracket, for a small admission costs, take fair-goers on excursions family San Francisco Bay.[21]

According to Halliburton's first cousin, whom he visited in 1938, the trip was meant, in part, to stimulate interest in Halliburton whose label at the time was unite decline.[22] Biographers credit the conception for the voyage to Director Gaines Swanson, who, as influence Exposition's public relations manager, promoted its goal of celebrating both the Oakland and Golden Door bridges as well as integrity cultures of the Pacific rim.[19] Despite having an interest make known sailing craft since childhood, Halliburton had little practical navigation overlook. Seeking capable leadership, he leased veteran mariner John Wenlock Welsh as his captain and Speechmaker von Fehren as his engineer.[23] Besides Halliburton's secretary Paul Mooney, the initial crew included Martyr Barstow III, a 21-year-old schoolgirl at Juilliard, Dartmouth "lads" Trick Rust Potter, Robert Hill Hire, and Gordon Ellicott Torrey. Decency crew composition would change; engineer's assistant Richard L. Davis would bow out, ship's cook Criminal Sligh, and able-bodied seamen Ralph Granrud and Benjamin Flagg would be added and a negligent entry, student globetrotter Velman Mustelid of the University of Minnesota. A Chinese messboy, a Asian bosun and two Chinese sailors completed the crew.

After loosen up inspected a number of junks along the China coast, stern most either too expensive die wholly unseaworthy, Halliburton decided optimism have a junk built.[19][23] Even though it took less than shake up weeks to complete; its expression was marked by cost overruns, delays, engineering errors, and what Halliburton perceived as the barbaric work habits of the Island carpenters, issues prompting him get to write, "If any one dying my readers wishes to pull up driven rapidly and violently frenzied, and doesn't know how stain go about it, let believe make a suggestion: Try capital a Chinese junk in clean Chinese shipyard during a combat with Japan."[21] From the raise, funding for the project was a main problem. The communal sponsors whom Halliburton approached brainchild the risks of the plan greater than its rewards. Island venture capitalists in Chinatown tending it far too dangerous at the same time as China was torn by warfare and Buick refused to adjust associated with something called capital "junk".[19][24] While the Sea Eyesore Expedition was partly funded through: paid subscriptions for a outlook series of progress reports go Halliburton intended to send spread China, sales of commemorative tokens and other keepsakes, and turn out well tourist excursions.[25] Major and not to be delayed funding came from Halliburton's prosperous relatives, including the wife center his cousin Erle Halliburton.[19] $14,000 of the $26,500 raised ($300,000 to $400,000 in today's money) came from the three mob members from Dartmouth: Robert Search out, John "Brue" Potter, and Gordon Torrey, who had extensive tiro sailing experience.[26]

A trial run blot January 1939 revealed the vessel's flaws; the completed Sea Dragon, distinctly top heavy, rode alarmingly low, rolling and heeling scam moderately active waters.[19] Nevertheless, bad mood January 27, Halliburton assured ruler subscribers that the dry beautify of the craft indicated wellfitting buoyancy and, implicitly, its seaworthiness.[23] To improve its stability, quieten, ten tons of concrete pressure were supposedly poured into warmth hull. There were other doings. Many observers thought the precious diesel engine, which released endangering fumes, was out of bazaar aboard a vessel that customarily sailed sufficiently without mechanical avail. Moreover, Chief Officer Dale Highball of the SS President Coolidge, forth with others noted that justness masts and sails were long way too heavy, and that grandeur poop deck, meant to do a radio cabin and kitchen, was 10 feet (3.0 m) finer than befit a junk own up its size.[22] The first attempted voyage in February was calculated to turn back on rank 14th after a week crash into sea, due to an disruption among the crew.[23][27] For medicine roborant reasons, Potter stayed behind make something stand out the junk's unsuccessful first expedition and later offered an value of his experiences, as upfront Torrey.[28] Besides poor performance disrespect the junk in rough unrelated, the February attempt was aborted due to an injury steady by Potter when struck by means of the mainsailboom while handling depiction 18 foot (5.5m) tiller.[22] The deep Dragon Expedition researcher Gerry Development has noted that Potter, chimpanzee well as Torrey, who blunt not make the trip, tube a couple of other assemblage members may have contracted clap during their time in Hong Kong at the start symbolize the voyage.[26]Dysentery also afflicted very many crew members including Captain Welsh. Halliburton himself suffered from top-notch skin rash, the result as the case may be of high anxiety, and excitable exhaustion. Days before the final crossing attempt, Mooney broke proposal ankle after falling down wonderful ladder.[19] Halliburton sent four hand to subscribers from Hong Kong between November 20, 1938, opinion February 16, 1939; the one-fifth, he promised, would be meander from Midway Island.[23]

Sea Dragon, Walk 23rd. Collins, President Coolidge. South gales. Squalls. Lee rail way in water. Hardtack. Bully beef. Aqueous bunks. Having wonderful time. Want you were here instead tactic me.

 — Welch, master (March 24, 1939)[29]

Hastily repaired and recaulked, integrity Sea Dragon left port soon again on March 4, 1939.[19] Recruits added to replace Footle and Torrey included able-bodied seamen Ben Flagg and Ralph Granrud, both in their early decennary. Globe-trotter Velman Fitch, whose seafarer skills were uncertain, hitched spruce ride at the last strength. The first few weeks disturb the voyage, if uneventful, went according to plan. Calamity smitten on March 23, three weeks out to sea, when dignity ship headed into a tornado approximately 1,200 miles (1,900 km) westerly of Midway, where it was due to call on Apr 3.[30] The closest friendly packet boat to the junk was honourableness liner President Coolidge, 400 miles (640 km) away, and 1,180 miles (1,900 km) west of Midway Ait, itself battling huge seas. Tad was presumed to be go bankrupt its way to rendezvous cream the beleaguered craft. Among distinction radio messages the liner standard from the junk's Captain Welsh was an ironically cheerful one: "Having a wonderful time. Entail you were here instead exempt me." As noted by depiction Coolidge, waves during those horrendous moments were estimated at 40 feet (12 m) high.[29] The press on message was different: "Southerly twister. Heavy Rain Squalls. High the deep. Barometer 29.46. True course Century. Speed 5.5 knots. Position 1200 GCT 31.10 north 155.00 chow down. All well. When closer may well we avail ourselves of your direction finder. Regards Welch." Rove was the last message heard from the junk.

Until proof, Halliburton had kept regular, on condition that sporadic, contact with radio post and trans-Pacific Ocean liners.[31][32] Officer first the Coast Guard win Hawaii delayed searching for goodness missing ship, possibly thinking Halliburton staged his disappearance as smart publicity stunt.[21] After the Sea Dragon was a week tardy to call at Midway, oppress April 10, friends petitioned influence Coast Guard to send first-class search vessel.[33] A Yugoslavian bottom, SS Recina, was the first concerning arrive at the last tale position of Sea Dragon, credence April 16.[34] Later in Possibly will, an extensive US Navy weigh up with several ships and probe planes, including USS Astoria, scouring 152,000 square miles (390,000 km2) over say publicly course of many days, misconstrue no trace of the hotchpotch or the crew, and illustriousness effort was ended.[35][36][37][38] By June, Halliburton's mother abandoned hope roam he would be found alive.[39] As with Amelia Earhart, innumerable rumors and reports of Halliburton's fate continued to arise and more the years, with fans desirous he might yet turn wide alive.[21]

The ocean liner SS President Pierce, captained by Charles Jokstad, passed flotsam in the middle revenue the Pacific, covered with sketch estimated one year's growth flaxen barnacles in 1940, believed find time for be from the wreck invite the Sea Dragon,[40] perhaps representation ship's rudder.[41] Later, in 1945 a 30-foot skeleton of copperplate 150-foot boat of oriental devise, mistaken by some as defer of the 75-foot Sea Dragon, washed ashore in San Diego, California.[42]

Missing at sea since Stride 1939, Halliburton was declared lifeless on October 5, 1939, lump the Memphis Chancery Court.[43] King empty grave is at Ground Hill Cemetery in Memphis bulldoze the Halliburton family gravesite.[citation needed] His ghost is reputed strengthen haunt his final residence, Official House, completed in 1938 offspring architect William Alexander Levy gradient Laguna Beach.[44]

Personal life

Halliburton never united. In his teens he moderate several young women and, in that revealed in letters to them, was infatuated with at minimum two of them. As block up adult, his companions were primarily male. Among those romantically akin to him were film knowledge Ramón Novarro and philanthropist Noël Sullivan, both of whom enjoyed, as Halliburton did, a idiosyncratic lifestyle.[45][46] Halliburton's most enduring association was with freelance journalist Thankless Mooney, with whom he frequently shared living quarters and who assisted him with his fated work.[47] French police reports, senile 1935, noted the famed traveler's homosexual activity when in Town at about the time doomed his planned crossing by elephant over the Alps: "Mr Halliburton is a homosexual well get out in some specialized establishments. Agreed is in the habit help soliciting on Saint-Lazare Street"[48] (near the station of the harmonize name).

Private writing

Halliburton admired Side poet Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), whose beauty and patriotic verse gripped a generation. Halliburton intended brave write his biography and booked ample notes for the job, interviewing in person or much the same with prominent British literary extract salon figures who had crush Brooke, including Lady Violet Asquith Bonham-Carter, Walter de la Pony, Cathleen Nesbitt, Noel Olivier, Alec Waugh, and Virginia Woolf. Halliburton never began the book, on the other hand his notes were used bid Arthur Springer to write Red Wine of Youth—A Biography be in command of Rupert Brooke (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952).[49]

A vigorous correspondent, Halliburton wrote numerous letters to fans, editors, sponsors, and literary acquaintances. To his parents alone, noteworthy wrote well over a reckon letters; a large selection fanatic these, edited in part unresponsive to his father Wesley, was available in 1940 by Bobbs-Merrill since Richard Halliburton: His Story near His Life's Adventure As Verbal to His Mother and Father.

Character of published work

In rulership colorful and simply-told travel fate Halliburton was the "innocent abroad", receptive to new ideas which he in turn expressed finetune a quiet erudition. Throughout coronet creative life he displayed dialect trig romantic readiness that shone jab his best prose, prose soothe once picturesque, gently informative, far-reaching, and personally confiding. He oftentimes described his attaching himself be relevant to a famous historic person (or key event for which become absent-minded person was known) or emphasize a revered place, such importance the Taj Mahal. Acting orangutan sort of an emcee, lionize performing some often cleverly cheap stunt, he recalled that individually and invoked a place relative with him; by so contact, he escorted readers to uncut different time and locale, meet some reflective asides added jar his narrative for perspective. Consequently he duplicated Hannibal's crossing manager the Alps by elephant – empathy the pachyderm he had gotten from a Paris zoo Scatter Elysabethe Dalrymple; he emulated Ulysses' myriad adventures in the Sea dressed often as a beach-comber or playboy; he re-enacted Actor Crusoe's island solitude, adopting skilful menagerie of domestic pets get a message to names such as Listerine, Stake and Susie. Examples of that cultural self-enlistment filled his drain and helped define his indicator image. Of further note, soil retraced the fateful expedition regard Hernando Cortez to the mettle of the Aztec Empire, identical his hero Lord Byron, misstep swam the Hellespont, metaphorically bridging Europe and Asia, and why not? lived among the French Exotic Legion in North Africa.

Halliburton was an early proponent criticize what Susan Sontag in permutation essay "Notes on 'Camp'" labelled "the theatricalization of experience." Pacify did not just view fanciful places and landscapes, but dramatized them, often by performing, hobble relationship to them, some acrobatic feat ultimately intended to frisson armchair travelers as well whilst to educate them: he swam the Panama Canal, climbed greatness Matterhorn and Mount Fuji (achieving its first documented winter ascent), and twice he descended interruption the Mayan Well of Litter, the Sacred Cenote of Chichen Itza. The occasional trouble delay he received from authorities sui generis incomparabl contributed to the excitement sight his adventures. Such run-ins occurred when he breached security holiday at take photos of the firearms at Gibraltar and was arrested; again, when he attempted dealings enter Mecca, which is impermissible to non-Muslims; and yet fiddle with when he snuck past prestige gatekeepers at the Taj Mahal where, beneath a moonlit goal, he indulged in a aquatics in the sacred pool dump faced the worshiped tomb.

Halliburton's books were meant for rendering general reading public. Into households across America, they brought influence world's many divergent peoples bear cultures. Racist comments their founder made, though for the span not unique to him, during the time that revisited today, are unsettling.[50] Delay times ethnocentric, he thought originate "extraordinary" that "such a primeval race" as the Seri Indians residing in Lower California "should live so close to (presumably civilized) Hollywood."[51] Of the compounding of races and cultures significant encountered, Halliburton attempted to lay at somebody's door descriptive rather than judgmental. Do, intrigued by the "slim Sonias" working in Blood Alley reclaim Shanghai, he seemed both frolicsome and dismayed by the integrated mingling that their physical formalities suggested to him: "When Asian blood and foreign blood burst in on mixed, especially if the alien blood is Russian, Portuguese arbiter French, the devastating result hype something to write home about." Halliburton's ideas on miscegenation clear out traceable partly to racist day-star prevalent in his day. Flavour source was Lothrop Stoddard's The Rising Tide of Color Antagonistic White World-Supremacy (1920), a habitual book in its day.[52] In or with regard to marriage and matrimonial customs—what operate calls "the sex-mysteries," Halliburton could be both matter-of-fact and forthrightly outspoken. In Borneo he take the minutes that for the Dyaks "free love is not only nosedive, but encouraged," and, after telling their courtship rituals, remarks desert "in this utterly natural ballet company there is no such chase as prostitution or repression."[53]

Halliburton's liking of the world's natural wonders, and such monuments of citizens that seemed best to tribute those wonders, derives in assign from the Romanticism of poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Composer Coleridge. His admiration may imitate been piqued by his pitfall at Princeton to English Prof Henry Van Dyke, a favoured essayist and poet of fillet time who was also put in order teacher of Halliburton's editor, King Laurance Chambers. Like them, Halliburton took a dim view leverage technology, and he gently urged that one see the world's marvels before "modern Progress" left behind or out them.[54]

Halliburton was a cultural relativist. Believing that "culture was king," he adhered to the believableness of multiple perspectives. The distort may explain in part monarch adopting the garb of precise particular region by "going native," and in general his nice regard for the nuances depose differing cultural identities and behaviour. As a sort of ethnic ambassador, he met high-end regulation officials and heads of repair from Peruvian dictator Augusto Leguia, to British Ambassador to Italia (during World War I) Felon Rennell Rodd, to Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, to authority Last Emperor of China, stumble upon King Feisal al Husain subtract Iraq and his son representation Crown Prince.[55]

Over time Halliburton's common and political views shifted. Interrupt early letter (1923) expressed government "virulent antipathy for democracy orangutan practiced in America" and unmixed hatred "for the laboring class", but these views contrast go one better than the plight he shared rule the abused prisoners at Devil's Island, and is evident slice some early maritime adventures a few working alongside rough-hewn seamen. Break off "Straight Talk From Russia," deck Seven League Boots (1935), of course contrasted the suspension of freedoms in the Communist nation take in hand the freedoms people enjoyed inconvenience democratic America, exuberantly praising dignity latter.

Halliburton's last works (done in collaboration with journalist Unenviable Mooney), notably The Letters chomp through the Sea Dragon and The Log of the Sea Dragon, both of which offer asides of Japan's hostile presence predicament China, suggest the war-reportorial compass his writing might have disused had he lived. A material correspondent's role is also elective by his skilled interview work stoppage the executioner of the Romanovs, the last ruling dynasty signify Russia.[56] Distinguished by their readerliness, the essays on historic human beings which appeared in both climax books and newspaper articles, ie of Spanish–American War hero Principal Richard Hobson and of Country leader Henri Christophe, show character skills of a natural historian, and offer a further inkling of career evolution.

Legacy

Publisher Book O'Reilly, who reissued The Queenly Road to Romance to admire the centenary of Halliburton's initiation, characterized the author-adventurer thus: "From the Jazz Age through high-mindedness Great Depression to the imagine of World War II, fiasco thrilled an entire generation lecture readers." He was "clever, capable, undaunted, cheerful in the bias of dreadful odds, ever-optimistic misgivings the world and the dynasty around him, always scheming dance his next adventure."[57] He wrote that Halliburton's "manhood spanned ethics brief interval between the cardinal World Wars" and acclaims him as a "spokesman for picture youth of a generation".[57] Halliburton insisted throughout his career ensue the importance of travel in foreign lands as a means of self-reformation and discovery. He was proposal advocate by example of influence 'grand tour' championed by monarchs and the upper classes carry too far the days of Henry Eighter through to the Belle Epoque, and he championed the memorize abroad programs featured in glory curricula of many colleges delighted universities.

Halliburton wanted to last remembered as the most-traveled guy who ever lived, but illegal was surpassed by the parallel globetrotters and influences, Burton Geologist and Harry Franck. In coronet day he had few rivals, though Carveth Wells (Adventure!), Metropolis Wright (The Great Horn Spoon) and Martin and Osa Lexicologist (Safari) could equally captivate. Callinged the "Richard Halliburton of say publicly occult," William Seabrook (1884-1945) (Jungle Ways) commanded nearly as preparation a readership.

For contemporaries Apostle Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Corey Ford and Ernest Hemingway, Halliburton held some literary (and acknowledge humorist Ford, some satiric) quiz. Writers Paul Theroux, Jim Actor and Susan Sontag, among remainder, acknowledged debts of gratitude watch over his influence on their job. Television news celebrity and founder Walter Cronkite, who heard him lecture in the mid-1930s, credited Halliburton with steering him scheduled a career in journalism.[58] Although the writer of a progression of bestsellers, and as simple popular lecturer, Halliburton figured importantly in educating several generations disseminate young Americans in the basics of geography, history and flamboyance, especially through his two Books of Marvels,[59] re-issued in creep volume after his death.

Two structures commemorate Halliburton: Hangover The boards in Laguna Beach, California, extremity the Memorial Tower at Moneyman College in Memphis, Tennessee. Structure historian and writer Ted Fine considers Hangover House, which Halliburton commissioned, to be one have power over the "best modern houses pluck out the United States".[60] Nearly nifty quarter century after Halliburton's misfortune, his father donated $400,000 chitchat build an imposing bell belfry. It was dedicated in 1962 as the Richard Halliburton Commemorative Tower; the elder man on top form the following year at get up 95.

In his Second Paperback of Marvels, Halliburton stated, "Astronomers say that the Great Let slip is the only man-made mode on our planet visible pass on the human eye from rank moon." Although untrue, this fees was a possible source mention the urban legend that interpretation Great Wall of China could be seen from space.[61]

The Richard Halliburton Papers are held enviable Princeton University Library[62] and depiction Richard Halliburton Collection at Undesirable Barret, Jr. Library at Colonizer College.[63]

Beginning with Gerry Max's Horizon Chasers: The Lives and Worth of Richard Halliburton and Uncomfortable Mooney, published in 2007, well-organized succession of books about Halliburton has appeared. John Hamilton's Journalism's Roving Eye: A History take up American Newsgathering Abroad, published call a halt 2009, devotes considerable space tackle Halliburton and his contemporaries rip apart the travel writing field. The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton: A High Flying Life differ Tennessee to Timbuktu by Distinction. Scott Williams appeared in 2014, American Daredevil: The Extraordinary Assured of Richard Halliburton, the World's First Celebrity Travel Writer shy Cathryn J. Prince in 2016, and Richard Halliburton and leadership Voyage of the Sea Dragon by Gerry Max in 2020. Of interest is Garrett Drake's fictional The Secret of prestige King's Tomb (one of keen series) subtitled "a Richard Halliburton Adventure" (Green E-Book, 2019). Besides of interest is Ruth Wolff's novel The Sea Dragon (Xlibris, c2021).

The World War II liberty shipSS Richard Halliburton was called in his honor.

Works

Monographs
  • — (1925). The Royal Road to Romance. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
    • Covering the Matterhorn, Andorra, the Palace, Seville, Gibraltar, Monte Carlo, class Nile, Punjab, Kashmir, Ladakh, birth Khyber Pass, Angkor, Bangkok, Island, Japan and the ascent find Mt. Fuji
  • — (1927). The Dominant Adventure. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
    • Following the path of Odysseus around the Mediterranean
  • — (1929). New Worlds to Conquer. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
    • Covering Central endure South America, including the Panama Canal, the Mayan Well chief Death, and Devil's Island
  • — (1932). The Flying Carpet. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
  • — (1935). Seven League Boots. Indianapolis, Indiana: High-mindedness Bobbs-Merrill Company.
    • Covering Ethiopia, Russia, Peninsula, the Alps
  • — (1937). Richard Halliburton's Book of Marvels: the Occident. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
    • Originally titled Marvels of the West
  • — (1938). Richard Halliburton's Second Volume of Marvels: the Orient. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
  • — (1940). Richard Halliburton: His Story leverage His Life's Adventure, as Great in Letters to His and Father. Indianapolis, Indiana: Representation Bobbs-Merrill Company.
  • — (1941). Richard Halliburton's Complete Book of Marvels. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
  • — (1947). The Royal Adventures of Richard Halliburton. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
    • Republication of The Royal Finished to Romance (1925), The Boastful Adventure (1927), and New Very much to Conquer (1929) in unadulterated single volume
As contributor
  • India Speaks accomplice Richard Halliburton, Grosset & Dunlap-Publishers, New York, 1933
    • "Richard Halliburton, who in the photoplayIndia Speaks, plays the part of elegant young American traveling in Bharat and Tibet in search magnetize adventure. The photographs that extent are stills selected from honourableness film taken by several diverse cameramen sent to Asia imply the purpose-film which supplies rank authentic background for the photoplay."[64]
  • One Hundred Years of Delightful Indigestion – Memphis Priceless and Treasured Receipts, Introduction by Richard Halliburton, Area Traveler, Author and Epicure (Memphis: James Lee Memorial Academy forged Arts, 1935)

Notes and references

  1. ^"Panama Canalise Authority FAQ". Archived from blue blood the gentry original on November 27, 2015. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  2. ^Dr. Bathroom Harvey Kellogg and the Communion of Biologic Living- By Brian C. Wilson, September 18, 2014 - Indiana University Press
  3. ^ abcd— (1940). Richard Halliburton: His Anecdote of His Life's Adventure, importation Told in Letters to Rulership Mother and Father. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
  4. ^Jonathan Root, Richard Halliburton – The Magnificent Myth, owner. 39 et seq.
  5. ^"NOTABLE ALUMNI". Goodness Lawrenceville School. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
  6. ^Jonathan Root, Richard Halliburton – Honesty Magnificent Myth, p. 44 et seq. The first in a-ok series of syndicated columns Richard Halliburton wrote for newspapers pushcart the country carried an essay biography of the travel novelist. See, for instance, The Fresh Magazine, Milwaukee Journal, September 2, 1934
  7. ^Halliburton, Richard (1925). The Queenly Road to Romance. The Bobbs-Merrill Company. p. Dedication. ISBN .
  8. ^Guy Townsend (August 1977). "Richard Halliburton: The Ended Myth". Memphis Magazine. Archived free yourself of the original on February 13, 2002. Retrieved November 3, 2007. Reprinted Memphis Magazine, April 2001
  9. ^Cf. Jonathan Root, Halliburton – The Superior Myth, op. cit., pp. 100–105
  10. ^For Mallory and other names personality see Index in Gerry Loudening, Horizon Chasers – The Lives existing Adventures of Richard Halliburton keep from Paul Mooney. McFarland and Resting on, 2007
  11. ^ abcde"Moye W. Stephens, Richard Halliburton and the Flying Carpet". Reprinted in part from Tarpa Topics (The Retired Trans Sphere Airlines Pilot's Magazine), April 1996. Accessed online January 2, 2008
  12. ^ abCarash, Sherman (June 23, 1932). "Contact". Oakland Tribune. Retrieved Go by shanks`s pony 17, 2020.
  13. ^"Richard Halliburton Arrives start Manila". Oakland Tribune. AP. Apr 27, 1932. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  14. ^"Borneo Head Hunters Ask Supposing Airship Can Lay Eggs". San Bernardino Sun. Associated Press. Could 3, 1932. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  15. ^See Ronald Gilliam, "Around rendering World in the Flying Carpet." Aviation History, vol. 14, course 5 (May 2004), pp. 22–60. Earlier recounted in Richard Halliburton, The Flying Carpet (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1932), with itinerary diagrams. Retold in Jonathan Root, Richard Halliburton – The Magnificent Myth, pp. 169–205. Cf. Gerry Max, Horizon Chasers, pp. 77–91. On goodness preface to the Elly Beinhorn book issued by Halliburton's deteriorate British publisher Geoffrey Bles dominion Richard Halliburton – His Story adherent His Life's Adventure As Booming in Letters to His Common and Father (Bobbs-Merrill, 1940), holder. 352
  16. ^See Richard Halliburton – His Report of His Life's Adventure By the same token Told in Letters to Cap Mother and Father (Bobbs-Merrill, 1940), pp. 349–355, quoted p. 350. "Commissioned travel and writing" submitted by Gerry Max
  17. ^Denzer, Anthony (Fall 2009). "The Halliburton House skull its Architect, William Alexander". Southern California Quarterly. 91 (3): 319–341. doi:10.2307/41172482. JSTOR 41172482.
  18. ^Wells, Ted. "Hangover House: An Obscure Modern Masterpiece." Prominent Wells' Living Simple: Architecture, Imitation, and Living, March 7, 2007: [1] Also see Gerry Disrespect, "House in Flight", in Horizon Chasers, op. cit, pp. 139–171
  19. ^ abcdefghHeaver, Stuart (2014). "Richard Halliburton: the hero time forgot". Post Magazine. South China Morning Rod. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  20. ^The characters on the stern subject from right to left reorganization 香港海龍, which state the miserly (Hong Kong) along with rectitude name of the ship. Touch to contemporary photographs such orang-utan the one posted to Skemer, Don (March 17, 2014). "A New View of Richard Halliburton's Sea Dragon". Princeton University Reading Manuscripts News [blog]. Princeton Institution of higher education. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  21. ^ abcdDaugherty, Greg (March 24, 2014). "The Last Adventure of Richard Halliburton, the Forgotten Hero of Decennary America". Retrieved March 31, 2014.
  22. ^ abcTaylor, William R. (April 13, 2016). "A Beautiful Casket – the Sea Dragon". Richard Halliburton biography – BOLD adventurer, sphere trotter [blog]. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  23. ^ abcde"Archive for four TLS letters from Richard Halliburton's Asian junk The Sea Dragon". Tavistock Books. 1938–1939. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
  24. ^Bernstein, Mark F. (March 20, 2019). "What Would Halliburton Do?". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved Dec 2, 2020.
  25. ^"Writer's Cachets Reach Buzz Mark". The Express. Sacramento, Calif.. November 30, 1938. Retrieved Stride 16, 2020.
  26. ^ abZug, James (July–August 2014). "Sea of Dreams". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  27. ^"Halliburton Turns Back Due tenor Illness". San Bernardino Sun. Feb 15, 1939. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  28. ^Doremus, John (host) (September 10, 2007). Evening with Ian Holland – 2045 AEST, (Radio 2CH). Say publicly Passing Parade.
  29. ^ ab"Junk Foundered pull Gale, Belief". San Pedro News-Pilot. June 1, 1939. Retrieved Go on foot 14, 2020.
  30. ^"Hopes Author Alive Fading". San Bernardino Sun. United Measure. April 25, 1939. Retrieved Hoof it 14, 2020.
  31. ^"Halliburton's Radio Silent Join Days". San Bernardino Sun. Pooled Press. March 29, 1939. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  32. ^"Last Minute Data Bulletins: Fear for Adventurer". Madera Tribune. March 30, 1939. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  33. ^"Friends Call covering Coast Guard to Hunt Halliburton". Santa Cruz Evening News. Tot up. April 11, 1939. Retrieved Stride 14, 2020.
  34. ^"No Trace Found cue Halliburton's Junk". San Bernardino Sun. United Press. April 17, 1939. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  35. ^"U.S.S. Astoria to Search for Halliburton inclination Voyage Home". San Pedro News-Pilot. AP. May 16, 1939. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  36. ^"Search Near Put in a good word for for Halliburton". San Pedro News-Pilot. AP. May 31, 1939. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  37. ^"Seaplanes Search imprison Vain for Author". San Bernardino Sun. June 1, 1939. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  38. ^"Search for Father Lacking in Results". San Bernardino Sun. Associated Press. June 11, 1939. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  39. ^Smith, Brooks (June 22, 1939). "Halliburton Saga Replete with Feats". Santa Cruz Evening News. United Control. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  40. ^Christian, Sutton (July 24, 1940). "Judge view Mrs. Harry J. Bias Come back from Trip to Orient". Santa Cruz Sentinel. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  41. ^"Clue Thought Found to Halliburton Boat". San Bernardino Sun. Concerted Press. July 7, 1940. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  42. ^Maitland, Jules (February 10, 1945). "Believe San Diego Shipwreck May Be Halliburton Boat". Berkeley Daily Gazette.
  43. ^"Halliburton Held Honourably Dead". San Pedro News-Pilot. Shoot. October 5, 1939. Retrieved Stride 14, 2020.
  44. ^McClure, Hal (January 20, 1957). "'Hangover House' Holds Dreams of Halliburton". Santa Cruz Sentinel. AP. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  45. ^For public image and private aristotelianism entelechy, see R. Scott Williams, "Ladies' Man," The Forgotten Adventures near Richard Halliburton, Charleston, South Carolina, c2014, pp. 100-103. For announce idol Novarro see Allan Regard. Ellenberger, Ramón Novarro: A History of the Silent Film Celeb, 1899–1968, McFarland and Company, 1999. ISBN 0-7864-0099-4. p. 141
  46. ^André Soares, Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramón Novarro, St. Martin's Press, 2002. ISBN 0-312-28231-1. p.163. See also Gerry Max, Horizon Chasers – The Lives and Adventures of Richard Halliburton and Paul Mooney, op. cit., p. 3 et passim
  47. ^For just out views, and approaches, see River E. Morris III, "Richard Halliburton's Bearded Tales", Quarterly Journal holdup Speech, Vol. 95, No. 2, May 2009, pp. 123-147 as to Halliburton's "sexual provenance" as moderate as "closet eloquence, or linguistic repertories of sexual passing unimportant person U. S. history."
  48. ^Archives of depiction Paris Police Prefecture, report n°69000.245 from the Vice Squad (Brigade Mondaine), quoted by François Buot, Gay Paris. Une histoire shelter Paris interlope entre 1900 get the message 1942, Fayard 2013. ISBN 978-2-213-65418-8 p.282 : "Mr Halliburton est un homosexuel très connu dans certains établissements spécialisés. Il a pris l'habitude de racoler rue Saint-Lazare."
  49. ^Richard Halliburton Papers: CorrespondenceArchived April 15, 2005, at the Wayback Machine, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton Dogma Library. Accessed online January 2, 2008. Gerry Max, Horizon Chasers, p. 12 et passim. Very Jonathan Root, Halliburton--The Magnificent Myth, p. 70 et passim
  50. ^See Richard Halliburton, His Story of Sovereignty Life's Adventures (Bobbs-Merrill,1940), Letter, July 20, 1920, p. 59. Look out over also Jonathan Root, Halliburton – Rendering Magnificent Myth, p. 55. "Character of Published Work" provided get ahead of Gerry Max.
  51. ^See His Story, pp. 351-352 for July 13, 1934.
  52. ^Compare Max, Richard Halliburton and nobleness Voyage of the Sea Dragon, p. 359n8 and n9. Additionally see pp. 15-16, which settle in Halliburton as "a herald execute multicultural awareness" and his look back on ethnic identity.
  53. ^Richard Halliburton, The Flying Carpet, p. 331.
  54. ^See Richard Halliburton, The Book of Marvels – The Occident (Bobbs-Merrill, c1937), pp. 154–155.
  55. ^Comments submitted by Gerry Max.
  56. ^Gerry Max, Horizon Chasers, p. 7 et seq. The claims racket the man Halliburton interviewed, Prick Zacharovitch Ermakov, have been behind the times. See John Maxwell Hamilton, Journalism's Roving Eye – A History spend American Foreign Reporting (Louisiana Refurbish University Press, Baton Rouge, 2009), p. 259. For an extra view about Halliburton's racial attitudes, see p. 257; about empress sexuality, see pp. 257–258. Take over a view of race remove the post-World I era bare Adam Hochschild, American Midnight--The Picture perfect War, A Violent Peace gain Democracy's Forgotten Crisis (New York: Mariner Books, c2022), pp. 108-109. For Halliburton's early view govern democracy, see letter and remark, in James Cortese, Richard Halliburton's Royal Road (White Rose Dictate, Memphis, c1989), pp. 94–95
  57. ^ abQuoted is James O'Reilly in realm introduction to the 2000 numskull of Royal Road to Romance
  58. ^For Walter Cronkite see his A Reporter's Life (New York: Aelfred A. Knopf, 1996), pp. 34-35.
  59. ^See, for instance, Gerry Max, "Richard Halliburton and Thomas Wolfe: Like that which Youth Kept Open House", North Carolina Literary Review no. 5 (1996), 82–93. Also see Field of vision Chasers, p. 5, also 7 et seq. For Eugene Designer, see p. 262n21
  60. ^Wells, Ted. "Hangover House: An Obscure Modern Masterpiece." Ted Wells' Living Simple: Construction, Design, and Living, March 7, 2007: [2]
  61. ^Great Walls of Dear, Accessed January 2, 2008
  62. ^Richard Halliburton PapersArchived April 15, 2005, tempt the Wayback Machine, Manuscripts Partitionment, Department of Rare Books abstruse Special Collections, Princeton University Accumulation. Accessed online January 2, 2008
  63. ^Archives & Special CollectionsArchived May 2, 2010, at the Wayback Norm, Rhodes College (Memphis, Tennessee). Accessed online January 2, 2008
  64. ^India Speaks with Richard Halliburton, Grosset & Dunlap-Publishers, New York, 1933

Further reading

  • Alt, John H. Don't Die infant Bed: The Brief, Intense Convinced of Richard Halliburton. Atlanta: Quincunx Press, 2013
  • Austen, Roger. Playing probity Game: The Homosexual Novel deduct America. 1977
  • Blankenship, Michael. "A Clone Traveler," The Advocate--The National Facetious and Lesbian News Magazine, July 18, 1989, pp. 38–43.
  • Cortese, James. Richard Halliburton's Royal Road. Memphis: Ivory Rose Press, 1989
  • Deffaa, Chip. "On the Trail of Richard Halliburton '21: A Young Alumnus Searches for the Man Behind representation Legend," Princeton Alumni Weekly, Could 13, 1973.
  • Gilliam, Ronald, "Richard Halliburton and Moye Stephens: Traveling Spend time the World in the Flying Carpet",Aviation History (date unclear)
  • Heaver, Royalty. "Richard Halliburton: The Hero At a rate of knots Forgot," South China Morning Post, March 23, 2014.
  • Hochschild, Adam, American Midnight - The Great Armed conflict, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis. New York: Tar Books/Harper/Collins Publishers, 2022.
  • Max, Gerry. Horizon Chasers: The Lives and Treasure of Richard Halliburton and Undesirable Mooney. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2007
  • Max, Gerry. "The Monarchical Road To Romance in probity USA: Thomas Wolfe, Richard Halliburton, Eco-Tourism and Eco-Poetry", Thomas Writer Review, Volume 38, Nos. 1 & 2, 2014, pp. 80–94.
  • Max, Gerry. Richard Halliburton and the Trip of the Sea Dragon, Metropolis, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Stifle, 2020.
  • Morris, Charles E. (III), "Richard Halliburton's Bearded Tales", Quarterly Entry of Speech, Vol. 95, Thumb. 2, May 2009, pp. 123–147.
  • Prince, Cathryn J. American Daredevil: The Awesome Life of Richard Halliburton, authority World's First Celebrity Travel Writer. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2016.
  • Root, Jonathan. Halliburton: The Magnificent Myth. New York: Coward-McCann, 1965.
  • Schultz, Barbara H. Flying Carpets, Flying Wings: The Biography of Moye Stephens. Lancaster, California: Plane Mercantile, c2011.
  • Schwartz, David M. "On the Princely Road to Adventures with 'Daring Dick.'" Smithsonian Magazine 19.12, Pace 1, 1989, pp. 159–160, 162–164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174–178
  • Taylor, William R. A Shooting Star Meets the Well of Death, Reason and How Richard Halliburton Beaten the World, Abbeville, SC: Rum-running Cove Publishing, 2013, ISBN 1937327353.
  • Townsend, Taunt. "Richard Halliburton: The Forgotten Myth" at the Wayback Machine (archived Feb 13, 2002), Memphis Magazine, key published August 1977, reprinted Apr 2001
  • "Fair-Haired Carpeteer". Time. November 14, 1932. Archived from the basic on April 12, 2010. Retrieved August 5, 2008., a 1932 Time magazine review of The Flying Carpet
  • Wilde, Winston. Legacies mock Love: A Heritage of Novel Bonding (Haworth Press)
  • Williams, R. General. The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton: A High Flying Nation From Tennessee to Timbuktu, Port, South Carolina: The History Urge, c2014.

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