Baum not only wrote the play but composed songs for it ( making it a prototypical musical, as its songs relate to the narrative ), and acted in the leading role.

His habit of giving out wares on credit led to the eventual bankrupting of the store, so Baum turned to editing a local newspaper, The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, where he wrote a column, Our Landlady.

In December 1890, Baum urged the wholesale extermination of all America's native peoples in a column he wrote on December 20, 1890, nine days before the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Baum also anonymously wrote The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile.

Baum continued theatrical work with Harry Marston Haldeman's men's social group, The Uplifters, for which he wrote several plays for various celebrations.

After little success probing the unrealized children's film market, Baum came clean about who wrote The Last Egyptian and made a film of it ( portions of which are included in Decasia ), but the Oz name had, for the time being, become box office poison and even a name change to Dramatic Feature Films and transfer of ownership to Frank Joslyn Baum did not help.

During the period surrounding the 1890 Ghost Dance movement and Wounded Knee Massacre, Baum wrote two editorials about Native Americans for the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer which have provoked great controversy in recent times because of his suggestion that the safety of White settlers depended on the " extermination " of the remaining Indians.

Following the December 29, 1890, massacre, Baum wrote a second editorial, published on January 3, 1891:

) Frank Reilly tactfully wrote to Baum that the material was not " in harmony with your other fairy stories ," and would generate " considerable adverse criticism.

Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz without any thought of a sequel.

Baum also wrote sequels in 1907, 1908, and 1909.

The children refused to accept this story, so Baum, in 1913 and every year thereafter until his death in May 1919, wrote an Oz book.

The Chicago Tribunes Russell MacFall wrote that Baum explained the purpose of his novels in a note he penned to his sister, Mary Louise Brewster, in a copy of Mother Goose in Prose ( 1897 ), his first book.

Baum wrote thirteen sequels to the novel.

Alexander Volkov introduced fantasy fiction to Soviet children with his loose translation of Frank L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published as The Wizard of the Emerald City, and then wrote a series of five sequels, unrelated to Baum.

* L. Frank Baum wrote four novels for adults that were never published and disappeared: Our Marred Life and Johnson ( 1912 ), The Mystery of Bonita ( 1914 ), and Molly Oodle ( 1915 ).

The highly influential American author L. Frank Baum wrote the first and most famous of his Oz books, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in 1900.

" Since the stage adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been a huge hit, with two companies still touring the country as the second book was published, the reviewer's suspicion was both natural and accurate: Baum wrote a stage adaptation called The Woggle-Bug that was produced in Chicago the summer of 1905.

Baum had been active in the group since he first moved to Los Angeles in 1909 ; he served among the Excelsiors, the group's governing board, he wrote and acted in their shows, and he played the bass drum in their band.

* L. Frank Baum wrote of Little Boy Blue in his Mother Goose in Prose, depicting him as genuinely overworked supporting himself and his widowed mother.

He was first commissioned to illustrate The Marvelous Land of Oz, the second Oz book L. Frank Baum wrote, published in 1904 ; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been illustrated by W. W. Denslow, with whom Baum argued and lost contact afterward.

It is possible she wrote some previous unsigned editorials, rather than L. Frank Baum, for whom she completed the paper's run.

Plans included statues of the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, Jack Pumpkinhead, and H. M. Woggle-Bug, T. E .. Baum abandoned his Oz park project after the failure of The Woggle-Bug, which was playing at the Garrick Theatre in 1905.

The Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug is a character in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum.

Jack Pumpkinhead was first portrayed on stage by Hal Godfrey in the 1905 stage play, The Woggle-Bug by Baum and Frederic Chapin.

She replaces Glinda in The Woggle-Bug, a musical extravaganza by Baum and Frederic Chopin based on The Marvelous Land of Oz, since aside from stating that it is in the Land of Oz, all references to any material in The Wizard of Oz play are omitted, since the show was concurrently running — no Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, or Glinda, and the Emerald City becomes the " City of Jewels.

This story is the first one since the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to send its hero on a quest through the land of Oz, a technique that allowed Baum to showcase the marvels of the land.

After severe degradation in the structure of the house and having been in the Baum family since it was built, the Baum house was bought and renovated by local businessman Kelly Fox, of Fox Construction.

While some fans enjoy trying to explain the various inconsistencies in the books, others prefer to ignore them, since apparently the inconsistencies were not important to Baum himself.

( Baum had wanted Fred Stone and David Montgomery to reprise their roles as the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman for the second show, but the two refused, fearing typecasting, and the characters were omitted completely form the play.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.

Baum started writing at an early age, perhaps due to an early fascination with printing.

At the age of 20, Baum took on a new vocation: the breeding of fancy poultry, a national craze at the time.

However, as Baum was preparing to leave, Burgoyne verbally changed the goal to be a supply depot at Bennington, which was believed to be guarded by the remnants of Warner's brigade, about 400 colonial militia.

At least at one point in his life, Baum stated that he considered The Patchwork Girl of Oz " one of the two best books of my career "— the other being The Sea Fairies.

* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, an unabridged dramatic audio performance at Wired for Books.

As it happened, Burgoyne sent an expedition under Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum to capture American supplies at Bennington, Vermont.

A 1906 contract between Baum and his publisher called for new Oz books at two-year intervals between 1907 and 1911.

In the sixth Oz book by Baum, The Emerald City of Oz ( 1910 ), when Uncle Henry and Aunt Em are unable to pay the mortgage on the new farmhouse built at the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy brings them to live in Oz ; the bulk of their appearance in the book dealing with her and her aunt and uncle is their tour of Oz, showing them the marvelous, Utopian land in which they have escaped the troubles of Kansas.

Dorothy is a standard character, having at least a cameo role in thirteen of the fourteen Oz books written by L. Frank Baum ( while she did not appear at all in The Marvelous Land of Oz, she is mentioned several times in that story, as it was her actions in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that led to the events in the former ) and is at least a frequent figure in the nineteen that followed by author Ruth Plumly Thompson, getting at least a cameo in all her books except Captain Salt in Oz ( in which neither Oz nor any of its inhabitants appear, though they are mentioned ).

The company's first project was a film of The Patchwork Girl of Oz ; and its second, released in October 1914, was His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz, produced at a cost of $ 23, 500, and with a cast ( according to the not-always factually reliable Baum ) of 130.

One of those weapons was a. 38 Colt automatic pistol that had been modified to fire fully automatic ( Nelson used this same gun to murder Special Agent W. Carter Baum at Little Bohemia Lodge several months later ).

As they were preparing to leave, with Wanatka driving at gunpoint, another car arrived with two federal agents – W. Carter Baum and Jay Newman, and a local constable, Carl Christensen.

Baum himself, however, hinted that Ozma may not be interested in men at all.

The change was most likely made by Baum at the suggestion of his editors.

The submerged city of the Skeezers in this book may have been suggested to Baum by the semi-submerged Temple of Isis at Philae in Egypt, which the Baums had seen on their trip to Europe and Egypt in the first six months of 1906.

* Walter Spies still used to receive guests at his house in Iseh, including the Austrian novelist, Vicki Baum: musician, Colin McPhee ...

Recorded live at McCabe's in Santa Monica, it featured Jim Boggio on accordion / piano, Stevie Blacke on mandolin / violin, Paul Robinson on guitar, Alex Baum on bass and Bob Scott on drums.

Maud, who was ten years younger than Julia, initially horrified her mother when she chose to marry The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum at a time when he was a struggling actor with only a handful of plays ( of which only The Maid of Arran survives ) to his writing credit.

Baum and Denslow, like most writers and illustrators, used the materials at hand that they knew best.