L. Frank Baum, who was born in Chittenango and lived for a time in Syracuse and in the area now known as Mattydale, began his career as a journalist, initially in Aberdeen, South Dakota ...

When visiting Aberdeen ... its expensive and extravagant nature. Baum then takes the audience through his life story, including time spent in South Dakota. "If they're familiar with 'The Wizard ...

But the icons and the images did originate with one man, Lyman Frank Baum, who is the subject of ... On a trip to visit his brother-in-law in South Dakota, Frank decided that real opportunity ...

The front page of L. Frank Baum’s Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer for January 25, 1890, two months after South Dakota became a state. Even as the Pioneer’s fortunes waned, Baum saw signposts ...

Frank Baum on Rt. 5 as you enter Chittenango ... against Native Americans in late 1890 for the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer in South Dakota, a newspaper for which his was the publisher.

L. Frank Baum was a sickly boy who was educated mostly at home, where he became a voracious reader. He soon combined this love of literature with an ability to create a lasting classic. He had ...

Frank Baum, the author of 1900's "The Wonderful ... the Baums also moved to Dakota Territory in 1888, settling in Aberdeen (now in South Dakota), 80 miles south of Edgeley. T.

'The Wizard of Oz" may have been influenced more by North Dakota than Kansas. Author L. Frank Baum, who had a fertile imagination, almost always used settings with which he was familiar.

When the movie “The Wizard of Oz” was released in 1939, it was indeed a wonder. It was an exciting children’s fantasy movie with vivid colors, great songs, and it was a movie with a message ...

The author of The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, traveled many paths before he found his Yellow Brick Road Chloe Schama Images and phrases from The Wizard of Oz are so pervasive that it's hard to ...