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“I was born in Colorado when I was four years old.” So begins Hugo Evon Frey’s telling of his childhood growing up in Larimer County, Colorado. The son of Swedish immigrants Hans (Henry) and Ingrid, Hugo identified so strongly with his identity as an American, that the four years he spent in Sweden were almost of no account.

Henry Frey (Photo from Nancy. J. Claussen via Ancestry.com.)

The Freys immigrated to the United States in 1887 with 7 year old Alice, 6 year old Ernest, 4 year old Hugo, and their infant son, Charlie. Henry took work in the stone quarries. He labored around Ingleside for several years before buying a ranch in Stout (where the Horsetooth Reservoir is today). There they had animals, pasture lands, and their own quarry.

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Hugo’s childhood home. The location of this house is now submerged under Horsetooth Reservoir. (Photo from Hugo’s Odyssey.)

Hugo wrote that it was in the little stone schoolhouse that he attended as a child where he “learned real Americanism.” Every school day began with a rousing rendition of “My Country, ’tis of Thee,” the Pledge of Allegiance and a salute to the flag. Hugo took all of this very seriously.

School house in Spring Canyon. (Photo from Hugo’s Odyssey.)

One of Hugo’s teachers at the school in Stout, Laura Stickle Akin, saw that Hugo was good at crafting a story and she encouraged him to write. And he did. Hugo went on to write a book, Hugo’s Odyssey, from which I’ve taken a fair bit of this story and many of the pictures. (He appears to have been a photographer as well.)

Union Pacific Engine #1455 (Photo from Hugo’s Odyssey.)

Ingrid Frey became ill in October 1897 and passed away in January of 1898. Unable to care for all of the kids on his own, Henry sent Hugo down to the Peterson’s on the Old Buckingham Place near Fort Collins. By fall, Hugo moved back home. But his father had so much work for him that school was out of the question. Hugo longed to go to school and managed to find a way to move in with the Buffums. Burt Buffam was a professor at the agricultural college. Here Hugo not only perfected his English skills, but he also stayed awake long into the night reading books from Mr. Buffam’s large library. Hugo eventually went on to apprentice with a plumber, but disliking his foul-mouthed, impatient co-worker, he decided he’d rather enlist in the military. After hosting a huge going away party, they went to the recruiters office the next day and were turned down. Embarrassed that they had made such a fuss about leaving, they decided instead to head down to Denver where Hugo lived with his aunt and uncle and worked for the Union Pacific Railroad.

Hugo Evon Frey, the Navy man. (Photo from Hugo’s Odyssey.)

Under President Theodore Roosevelt, the Navy was being strengthened as part of his “big stick” of diplomacy. Hugo heard the call to enlist and wasted no time. He was shipped out to San Francisco where he was stationed on the USS Wyoming. There he participated in a race against a British ship. Not only did the Americans win, but Teddy Roosevelt was there on the Wyoming, witness to the entire event, and Hugo got the chance to shake his hand.

After several more adventures in San Francisco, Hugo was eventually shipped out to Pago Pago, Samoa. There he met up with cannibals, tribal chiefs, and naked Samoan women. He later wrote about the adventures he had there in his book entitled Hugo’s Odyssey (written with the Greek epic poem clearly in mind).

Hugo in Samoa. (Photo from the book, Hugo’s Odyssey.)

With his pale Scandinavian skin and his blond straight hair, he was a particular favorite among the natives who loved to run their fingers through his hair. He became good friends with the local chief, Asuego, and especially the chief’s daughter, Maugufe. (He spends a couple of paragraphs describing her beauty, kindness, and sweet innocence.) He learned the language and customs of the people and had many adventures including being attacked by an octopus, winning a swimming race against the island’s champion, exploring a haunted cave with some fellow soldiers, and befriending a cannibal.

Maugufe, daughter of Asuego, chief of Pago Pago. (Photo from Hugo’s Odyssey.)

Eventually it was time to return home. Hugo waxes on in his book about how he was very sad to leave Maugufe, the chief’s daughter. Several of the other men had taken Samoan wives. But Hugo had a gal back home, and though her letters to him had stopped arriving, he decided he still should return to her. It is clear from his tale that he often wonders what his life would have been like if he had stayed upon the idyllic island and married Maugufe. (Hugo’s Odyssey was published in 1942. Perhaps the attack on Pearl Harbor and the following fighting in the Pacific is in part why Hugo decided to set his stories down on paper, in order to capture the life upon the islands before it was marred by war.)

It’s unclear whether Hugo actually married the girl from back home. He had returned to Fort Collins by 1906, but wasn’t married until 1911. He never mentions the name of his home town sweet heart in his book.

It is also unclear what Hugo did upon returning home. He’s mentioned as being at a party at his dad and step-mom’s place in 1906. He’s listed in the Fort Collins census in 1910. And in 1911, the newly married couple of Hugo and Ada Rea had a bit of excitement at their house when their new kitchen range exploded. Thankfully Ada had just walked out of the kitchen and into the living room before it happened or she probably would have been seriously injured.

It’s possible that Hugo was in school studying law between 1906 and 1910, although I couldn’t find any evidence to that effect.

Hugo is listed as the deputy coroner in the August 9, 1912 newspaper, but by 1912 he was the local Justice of the Peace, a position he held for 3 years.

Henry Frey with sons Ernest, Hugo, and Charlie. This photo is from the 1920s at which point Ernest as a preacher, Hugo was a lawyer and writer, and Charlie was an engineer. (Photo from the Fort Collins Archive.)

By 1913, Hugo was giving swimming lessons to young lads at the Y.M.C.A. The boys were thrilled to learn from a navy man who had beat out a Samoan in a swimming competition.

But by 1914, Hugo had something new up his sleeve. In the 1910s, breakfast foods were a growing industry. Henry Drushel Perky and William Henry Ford invented a machine in 1892 that shredded whole wheat, creating the world’s first breakfast cereal. C.W. Post introduced Grape-Nuts cereal in 1897. And Dr. John Harvey Kellogg created a flaked wheat berry in 1898. Hugo Frey saw this growing trend and decided that Fort Collins could benefit by selling their grains to these cereal companies. He decided first to try using alfalfa, one of Fort Collins’ most plentiful crops. According to the December 11, 1914 Fort Collins Weekly Courier, a full meal could be created from just the one crop: syrups, extracts, breakfast food, coffee, tea, gems (candy?), and grease. Hugo was in negotiations to bring a plant to the area that would process this bountiful crop into a cornucopia of food items.

The alfalfa project must have fallen flat because not too long after the alfalfa article came out, Hugo was visiting an Emmer plant in Wisconsin which was turning emmer wheat into breakfast foods. Hugo soon got in trouble with the city due to all the time he was spending working towards the creation of an Emmer Products factory in the Fort Collins area. There were complaints that he wasn’t fulfilling all of his Justice of the Peace duties.

Hugo eventually took work in Denver selling industrial securities. One day he just happened to overhear a foreigner talking smack about the American Flag. This riled him up, but when the other man went so far as to spit on the flag, well that was just too much. Hugo walloped the man and dragged him off to the authorities.

By this point, Hugo and Ada had two children, Lillian who had been born in 1914, and Hugo Junior, born in 1917. The same year that Hugo Jr. was born, the United States declared war on Germany. As a dutiful American, Hugo registered for the draft and was called up in 1918. He was sent to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and there he fell deathly ill from the inoculations he was given. For two years he was laid up in bed in Wisconsin. I couldn’t find any information on where Ada and the children were during this time, but it must have been incredibly difficult on them. One newspaper headline stated, “Hugo Frey May Be Invalid For Life.” But by September of 1920, Hugo made a full recovery and was shipped off to California. Of course, by that point the war was over. But Ada must have moved out to California to be with Hugo and in 1923, their youngest son, William, was born.

Hugo and Ada’s children in California in 1923 – Lillian, Hugo and William. (This photo was up for auction on eBay and is available for purchase from user cassiestale.)

Hugo and Ada lived out the rest of their days in California. Brothers Charlie, Frank, and Ernest all moved to Southern California as well.

Hugo wrote articles for the local paper, the Long Beach Telegram, and he published the story of his adventures in the South Pacific in 1942. He passed away in 1962. Ada survived him by almost twenty years. I was unable to find any information on what became of his children, though I did find the above photo of them available for sale on eBay (which makes me think that perhaps the items of one of them were sold in an estate sale).

Though Hugo didn’t finish out his days here, he was one of the area’s native sons with exciting tales of adventure that he shared with Fort Collins residents not only through his writing, but through frequent lectures and missionary meetings in town, inspiring others to sally forth and see the wider world.

I close with Hugo’s own words as he wrote about the difficulty with which he left the Pacific isles. It is clear that though he loved his hometown, it was the islands which he longed for the rest of his life.

“It is a battle, not of swords and guns, but of the lightning flashes of feverish thoughts. The soul seems beating against imprisoning bars. The wings of thought are clipped and bound. The ears seem deafened to normal sounds. Only the sounds from within are heard and they are heard through a tumultuous uproar. The nostrils are quickened by strange perfumes. The calling of the South Seas; the calling of the tropics; the haunting sound of the tom-tom; the siren call of natives singing. “Come back! Come back!”

Be watching next week when I post one of Hugo Frey’s stories about a Northern Colorado Christmas adventure.

Sources for this article:

I cannot thank Joan Day enough for loaning me her signed copy of Hugo’s Odyssey. It was her grandmother, Laura Stickle Akin, who encouraged Hugo to become a writer. And it was Joan who encouraged me to write about Hugo Frey. I highly recommend this book. It is an easy read and incredibly interesting. There are currently two copies available on Amazon, or you can visit the Archive in the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery and read their copy. (You won’t be able to check it out, but you can read it there.)

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I found most of the information about Hugo’s jobs and other Fort Collins interactions through the newspapers thanks to Colorado Historic Newspapers.

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Information about the history of Post cereal and Kellogg’s cereal came from their respective websites.

I used Ancestry.com to get a grasp on the people in Hugo’s family and where he lived throughout the decades. I had hoped to find out more about Ada’s background that way as well, but information on her was rather scant.

Hugo's House of Horrors is a computer game released in 1990. Gray Design Associates (GDA) created a parser-based adventure game, reminiscent of the Sierra Entertainment 'Quest' games (such as King's Quest) and thematically similar to Maniac Mansion. The game also features tongue-in-cheek comedy.

Plot[edit]

In the game, the player controls the protagonist, Hugo, who has come to a haunted house to look for his girlfriend Penelope, who hasn't been seen since she went to babysit there. The premise bears similarity to LucasFilm Games' Maniac Mansion, released in 1987, where the main character enters a mansion in order to rescue his girlfriend from a mad scientist.

Gameplay[edit]

The player moves Hugo around by using the arrow keys on the keyboard, and controls his actions by entering commands on the keyboard (or, in the later-released Windows version, one can use the mouse).

Inspiration[edit]

In an interview, the game's designer David Gray claimed^[1] that he had never played Maniac Mansion and was only aware of the game's similarities after it was released, 'Unbelievable as it may seem, when I wrote Hugo's House of Horrors in 1989 I was completely unaware of Maniac Mansion and to this day have never played it. Why? So I can truthfully say I've never played it! The truth is that Hugo's House of Horrors was actually inspired after playing the original Sierra game Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards and as far as game mechanics and look, Hugo should have more in common with that game'.

In another interview, David Gray also admitted^[2] to being inspired by Captain Comic by Michael Denio, stating 'This was the first computer game I saw with large cartoon like characters that moved fluidly and I tried to emulate it.' He also mentioned that the Windows Point-and-Click port was inspired by Beneath a Steel Sky.

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Sequels[edit]

In 1991 GDA released a sequel, Hugo II, Whodunit?, and in 1992 a third installment, Hugo III, Jungle of Doom!. Nitemare 3-D, a game that came out in 1994, is arguably the fourth (and so far final) installment of the Hugo series, though Nitemare 3-D, instead of being an adventure game, is a Wolfenstein 3D clone, in which Hugo ventures into the haunted mansion to rescue Penelope by shooting enemies with various guns.

References[edit]

1. ^'David Gray Interview'. Adventure Classic Gaming. 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
2. ^'Plus XP Interview: David P Gray'. Plus XP. 2010-02-05. Retrieved 2012-04-25.

External links[edit]

Hugo's Horrific Adventure

• Hugo's House of Horrors at MobyGames
• Hugo's House of Horrors at GameFAQs
• Classic DOS Games has all of the Hugo shareware demos for download.
• Hugo's House of Horrors can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive

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