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L. Ron Hubbard, en route
to the Orient, circa 1927. |
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Originally
hailing from Tilden, Nebraska, he spent his
formative years in a classically rugged
Montana, replete with the cowpunchers,
lawmen and desperadoes who would later
people his Wild West adventures. And lest
anyone imagine those adventures were drawn
from vicarious experience, he was not only
breaking broncs at a tender age, he was also
among the few whites ever admitted into
Blackfoot society as a bona fide blood
brother.
While if only to round out an otherwise
rough and tumble youth, his mother was that
rarity of her time—a thoroughly educated
woman—who introduced her son to the classics
of occidental literature even before his
seventh birthday.
But
as any dedicated L. Ron Hubbard reader will
attest, his world extended far beyond
Montana. In point of fact, and as the son of
a United States naval officer, by the age of
eighteen he had traveled over a quarter of a
million miles. Included therein were three
Pacific crossings to a then still mysterious
Asia, where he ran with the likes of Her
British Majesty's agent-in-place for North
China, and the last in the line of Royal
Magicians from the court of Kublai Khan.
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