My Favorite Famous Idahoans •Gutzon Borglum was the famous sculptor of Mt. Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota. He was born near Bear Lake, Idaho in 1871. •Edgar Rice Burroughs creator of the Tarzan stories was one of the most famous part-time residents of Pocatello, Idaho. It is rumored that while running a stationery store in Pocatello, he wrote the first drafts of “Tarzan of the Apes.” •Lillian Disney was the wife of the famous Walt Disney. She was born in Lewiston, Idaho in February 1899 and died in Los Angeles, California in 1997. She pledged $50 million toward the construction of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles which opened in 2003. She was also an ink artist on the film Plane Crazy (1928). •Vardis Fisher (1894-1968), author of many novels, including Children of God, Tale of Valor, and Mountain Man (later made into the Hollywood film Jeremiah Johnson), is one of Idahos respected writers. •Dee Pickett made a name for himself locally as a quarterback of the Boise State Broncos, however he is best known as a premier rodeo cowboy. In 1984 he rode and roped to the top of his profession, earning the Pro Rodeo Championship All Around Cowboy title. •Lana Turner was born in February, 1921 in Wallace, Idaho. She was born with the name Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner which was later changed to Lana Turner in California. when she began her acting career. She starred in over 50 films including The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938), Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde (1941), and The Three Musketeers (1948). •Ernest Hemingway was the famous author of classics such as The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. He arrived in Sun Valley in 1939 and is now buried in Ketchum where he died July 2, 1961. •Philo T. Farnsworth emigrated to Rigby, Idaho in 1919 at age 11. At age 14 he came up with a brilliant idea for a cathode-ray tube that would later lead to television. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1984.
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