Born in a rugged and adventurous Montana, L. Ron Hubbard lived a life of truly legendary proportions. Before the age of ten, he had already broken his first bronco and earned that rare status of blood brother to the Blackfeet Indians. By age eighteen, he had logged more than a quarter of a million miles, twice crossing the Pacific—before the advent of commercial aviation—to a then still mysterious Asia. Returning to the United States in 1928, he entered the George Washington University where, drawing from far-flung experience, he began to shape some of this century’s most enduring tales.
By the mid-1930s the name L. Ron Hubbard had graced the pages of some two hundred classic publications of the day, including Argosy, Top-Notch and Thrilling Adventures. Among his more than fifteen million
