Rex Beach
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Rex Ellingwood Beach was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. Many of his novels were adapted into films.
Rex Beach wearing a stetson
Rex Beach Cabin, Rampart, Alaska
The Spoilers (Beach novel)
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The Spoilers is a novel by Rex Beach based in Alaska that was one of the best selling novels of 1906.
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…1900 he was drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His second novel The Spoilers (1906) was based on a true story of corrupt government officials stealing gold mines from prospectors, which he witnessed while he was prospecting in…
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