Dick Wick Hall

Dick Wickenburg Dick Wick Hall was an American humorist. As cofounder and initial resident of Salome, Arizona he began publishing The Salome Sun, a newsletter containing tall tales and humorous prose. Hall created a variety of characters for his newsletter, the most famous being a sevenyearold frog that had never learned to swim. Excerpts from the Sun became a regular feature of The Saturday Evening Post, appearing in the magazine from 1920 until Halls death in 1926.

Hall was born DeForest Hall to Thomas and Florence Hall on March 20, 1877 at his familys farm near Creston, Iowa. During his youth he was interested in plants and animals, and produced a sizable collection of mounted birds and animals. The collection would later be acquired by the University of Nebraska. He was educated in public schools before enrolling at the University of Nebraska. In college he studied engineering and ornithology. He left the university before graduation and worked briefly as a journalist and fireman on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.

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