The Story of Elrond Hubbard

In 1932, Elrond Hubbard submitted his first finished short story for publication. He wrote about a 12 year old child soldier in China on a march to die horribly in a battle. Most of his early stories involved bloody adventures in vaguely Asian settings. That summer he decided to launch an expedition that would explore abandoned pirate strongholds and film themselves running around in pirate costumes.