| Olympic medal record | |||
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| Silver | 1904 St. Louis | Team competition | |
Rex Ellingwood Beach (September 1, 1877 – December 7, 1949) was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. Water polo has been part of the Summer Olympics program since the second games in 1900. The 1904 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the III Olympiad, were an International Multi-sport event which was celebrated in St At the 1904 Summer Olympics, a Water polo tournament was contested Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 1877 ( MDCCCLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero assassinated 1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. Water polo is a team water sport A team consists of six field players and one Goalkeeper.
Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. Banks Township is a Civil township of Antrim County in the US Alaska ( Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent The Klondike Gold Rush, infrequently referred to as the Yukon Gold Rush or Alaska Gold Rush, was a frenzy of Gold rush Immigration to and for After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing.
His first novel, The Spoilers was based on a true story of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, which he witnessed while he was prospecting in Nome, Alaska. Nome is a city located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea [1] The Spoilers became one of the best selling novels of 1906. For other uses of the term please see the disambiguation page at Best sellers. His adventure novels were immensely popular throughout the early 1900s.
After success in literature, many of his works were adapted into successful films; The Spoilers became a stage play, then was remade into movies five times from 1914 to 1955, with Gary Cooper and John Wayne each playing "Roy Glennister" in 1930 and 1942, respectively. Frank James “Gary” Cooper (May 7 &ndashMay 13) was an American film actor and iconic star John Wayne ( May 26, 1907 &ndash June 11, 1979) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award -winning American
Beach occasionally produced his films and also wrote a number of plays to varying success. In 1949, two years after the death of his wife Edith, Beach committed suicide in Sebring, Florida at the age of 71. Sebring is a city in Highlands County, Florida, United States, nicknamed "The City on the Circle" in reference to Circle Drive the center A local urban legend in Sebring was verified in 2005 when the home Beach lived in was remodeled and a bullet found in the wall. An urban legend or urban myth is a form of modern Folklore consisting of stories thought to be factual by those circulating them
Olympics
In 1904 he was a member of the American water polo team which won the silver medal in the St. Louis Games.
Novels
- The Spoilers (1906)
- The Auction Block (1914)
- The Winds of Chance (1918)
- Heart of the Sunset
- The Silver Horde
- Rainbow's End (1916)
- The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure
- The Iron Trail
- The Net
- The Ne'er-Do-Well
- Going Some
- The Barrier
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