Name Charles Daniel "Dan" SAULTS, GGG Grandson, M
Birth Date 20 May 1911206
Birth Place Knob Noster City Cemetery, Knob Noster, Johnson County, Missouri
Birth Memo At the home of his parents.
Death Date 23 Sep 1985207,206 Age: 74
Death Place Branson, Taney County, Missouri
Burial Place Knob Noster City Cemetery, Knob Noster, Johnson County, Missouri206
Father Charles Lee "Charlie" SAULTS, M (1885_1969)
Mother Anna Alberta ELLIOTT, F (1883_1975)
Notes for Charles Daniel "Dan" SAULTS
He was a graduate of the Knob Noster High School and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He published the Knob Noster Gem until enlisting in the armed forces in World War II. He served in the 339th Infantry Division in Africa and Italy. Before his retirement he worked with the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Services in Washington, DC as editor, and Chief of Office of Information Assistant Director. Prior to that the worked with the Missouri Conservation Commission from 1947 until 1964 during which time he was the editor of the Missouri Conservationist.
"Dan Saults, perhaps Missouri's best_known outdoor writer, died in September at the age of 74. He once the editor of this magazine.
Mr. Saults had been active in outdoor writing both in Missouri and nationally, for 50 years.ÉDan attended Central Missouri State Teacher's College in Warrensburg, Missouri and the University of Missouri, Columbia. He took over the Knob Noster Gem in 1935, becoming the youngest newspaper publisher in the state.
Mr. Saults published the Gem until he joined the Army in 1942. Discharged in 1946, he freelanced for a year before joining the Department of Conservation.
He became editor of the Missouri Conservationist in April 1947 and remained head of the magazine until he was appointed assistant director of the Department in May 1957.
He spent seven years as assistant directory before moving to Washington, D. C., in April 1964, where he was assistant to the director of the Bureau of land Management and later was information officer for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
After his retirement in 1973, Mr. Saults moved to Branson, but his retirement was as typically busy as his working life.
He wrote extensively, especially for the Springfield News_Leader and he Ozarks Mountaineer, and served as president of the Outdoor Writers Association of America in 1979_80. He also won the Jade of Chiefs award from that organization—its top conservation honor.
He continued active in the Outdoor Writers Association, especially on its scholarship committee. He also was active in the Conservation Federation of Missouri."
Dan Saults was the author and inventor of the "Knob Noster ghost." the ghost was dreamed up when he was a boy, as a good story to tell on summer nights. The story became so well known that evantually a book called Legends of Missouri, which was published in 1939, included it. Dan confessed his part in an article he wrote for the Kansas City Journal newspaper, for which he worked.
