Post Graduate Vagabonding: Diary of Arnold Morris Samuelson written during the Great Depression - Couverture souple

Samuelson, Arnold Morris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1725642484 ISBN 13 : 9781725642485

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

Arnold Morris Samuelson graduated in journalism in 1932 from the University of Minnesota. Unable to find work during the depression, he hitchhiked around the country to wait out these hard times. He first recorded in a diary his journey to the abandoned family homestead in White Earth, North Dakota. He renewed old acquaintances but spent much of his time in solitude, working odd jobs and reading. He camped part of the time in a coulee together with his horse, Dude and dog, Pup. His daily entries reveal much of his inner life as well as the colorful characters living in this rural community. In the second part of the diary, Arnold and a fellow journalism student, Ken Schmidt, vagabond their way south through Texas and throughout the western parts of the United States for a nine month period. Each day is a story of survival as they attempt to find food and shelter. Colorful characters are described as they encounter them. Sportsmen will enjoy their fishing and hunting experiences. At the end of the diary in the summer of 1933, Arnold has returned and lives in his crudely built shack in the coulees in North Dakota. After the travels related in this diary, impulse brought Arnold's vagabonding 1800 miles south by freight train directly to the door step of Ernest Hemingway in Key West in May of 1934. He asked Hemingway for writing advice and was surprisingly taken in for almost a year as a protege and a boat boy aboard Hemingway's boat "Pilar" for a dollar a day. Hemingway published an article in Esquire magazine in October 1935 about his experiences with Samuelson titled, "Monologue to the Maestro" A High Seas Letter". Arnold had recorded his own experiences during this year in a manuscript which he continually reworked, but never felt was publish worthy. However, it was discovered after his death in 1981 by his daughter, Dian Darby. In 1984, she published the manuscript as With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba. Also, Paul Hendrickson in his 2011 book, Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life and Lost, 1934-1964, devoted a long chapter to Arnold Samuelson who had lived aboard the boat. In this book, Post Graduate Vagabonding, you get to experience the years leading up to his time spent with the literary giant.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Arnold Morris Samuelson was born on February 6, 1912 in a sod house near White Earth, North Dakota. He grew up the youngest of four children on his Norwegian parent's wheat farm. Much of his childhood was spent with the family's horses and his dog. He was exceptionally intelligent, had always wanted to be a writer, and was able to learn to play the violin. He graduated from the Tioga High School in 1928 as valedictorian, after being expelled from the White Earth system for unacceptable behavior. After high school, he moved to Minneapolis where he attended the University of Minnesota and majored in journalism to fulfill his burning desire to write. His parents were unable to financially help him pay for college, but he was able to manage by living rent free in a fire hall in exchange for doing odd jobs and living extremely frugal. In November 1932 during his senior year, Arnold suffered a severe shock. His 24-year-old sister Hedvig (Sammy) Samuelson was murdered along with another woman in Phoenix. Sammy was shot in the head; her body was hacked apart and shipped off to Los Angeles in a trunk. The murder by Winnie Ruth Judd became infamous as the trunk murder case. At that time, Arnold was working part time at the Minneapolis Tribune as a cub reporter. Arnold was horrified to personally see the dispatches come in reporting the details of his sister's death. The night editor who had become a good friend, George Lester Peterson, found Arnold temporarily blinded by the shock. He took Arnold under his personal care and attempted to help him through this crisis. The tabloids and main stream press highlighted this story for years. Arnold rarely spoke about this tragedy and would become irate and sullen when anyone would ask him about it. Arnold managed to get through his senior year but never officially graduated because he wouldn't pay the $10 diploma fee. He was a vagabond for the next couple of years which included a year spent with Ernest Hemingway in Key West. He published a few items, but never became a noted writer. He married, broke wild broncs for ranchers, and worked on the Alaskan Railroad near the Arctic Circle during World War II. After the war in 1945, he moved to Texas with his wife and had two children, Eric and Dian. He attempted to live a Thoreau type existence next to the Colorado River on the outskirts of Robert Lee. Arnold died in 1981.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1725642484
• ISBN 13: 9781725642485
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Lindross J.T.
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Éditeur: Worel Janet V.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg