![]() ![]() He then failed as a storekeeper worked in his father's battery company served as a railroad policeman dredged for gold in Idaho and sold lightbulbs, patent medicines, and salesmanship courses. Burroughs had graduated from Michigan Military Academy, had failed entrance examinations to West Point, was discharged from the army due to a heart murmur, and was rejected as a volunteer for Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War. ![]() At that time Burroughs was an inexperienced fiction writer struggling to support his wife and two small children. When Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) submitted the story "Tarzan of the Apes: A Romance of the Jungle" to the pulp magazine All-Story in 1912, he was desperately lacking money and confidence. ![]()
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