In 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs unleashed an iconic literary character on the world with the publication of Tarzan of the Apes. Twenty-five more books, countless movies, and multiple television series followed. We will always have Tarzan.
An Indiana Tarzan Who Never Made It Onto the Big or Small Screen
What I didn’t always know about Tarzan was his Indiana connection, and deep one at that. The man in this picture? He’s Otto Herr, and, during the mid-20th century, he actually lived as Tarzan.
But Otto was just one Indiana Tarzan. There are four more. Read on…
Indiana Native Elmo Lincoln — the First Movie Tarzan
In 1918, Tarzan of the Apes became the first Tarzan adaptation for the big screen. (Maybe it was big; it was 1918, after all.) But it was Rochester IN native Elmo Lincoln who was the first to don the trademark loin cloth. In 1952, Lincoln appeared on television and gave us his version of the iconic Tarzan yell. Prepare yourself, though.
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