1881 Tarzan Of The Apes

Date:  September 1, 1881, through  December 31, 1881

Event:  At nine years old Tarzan learns to fashion a rope, and learns the art of lassoing.

Source:  "By the time Tarzan was ten," ERB-Tarzan Of The Apes.

Chat: ERB does not offer exact data, so any dates provided would be theory. Regardless, we need a working model to go by. To keep this working date simple, I theorized that the ape boy learned to fashion a rope on the front side of nine, and the art of lassoing on the back side of nine. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James Michael Moody is a lifelong fan and collector of Edger Rice Burroughs. Over the past forty-five years, Moody has contributed over two hundred articles to various ERB-related fanzines. He also manages an unauthorized Tarzan blog titled Greystoke Chronologist: James Michael Moody. There, the researcher chronologies the Tarzan books starting in May 1872 (known as the pushback theory) instead of the more accepted date, May 1888.

James Michael Moody also authorizes the action-packed Sci-Fi fantasy adventure Unium series. Pioneers On Unium, published December 31, 2019, Exiled On Unium, published August 25, 2022, and Swordsman On Unium, published on July 15, 2024.