Della Gould Emmons

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 active in both the entertainment and in the jewelry business. Her older brother was the circus entrepreneur Edward Jay Gould. She studied at the University of Minnesota and originally wanted to be a teacher of languages ​​before she taught music and drama in Sisseton, South Dakota, near the Sioux reservation. On September 20, 1913, she married Allen B. Emmons, a dispatcher at the railway. She moved with him several times over the years from city to city to newer and newer stations, where they close the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail followed.

This was ultimately the inspiration, which was processed in their 1943 published debut novel Sacajawea of the Shoshones. From the perspective of the Indian woman Sacajawea, she describes the Lewis and Clark Expedition. With Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston and Donna Reed in 1955 under the title of the book was filmed on the distant horizon. After 1965 her third book Leschi of the Nisquallies published, she was adopted by the tribe of the Lummi and her name Selequal, which means about as much as girls large calm awarded.

Emmons died on 6 November 1983 at the age of 93 years. After her husband's death on June 5, 1958, she remained unmarried. The couple had two children together, a son and a daughter. As Emmons died, she left behind 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 one million U.S. dollars Gems (1974 )