But the story that was printed in downtown Lawrence was the basis for the Rudolph tale that exists today. At the request of Montgomery Ward, Robert L. May composed a story to be sent with ...

(“To call it a big, shiny nose would sound horrid!”) Rudolph was born in 1939 at the Montgomery Ward department store headquarters in Chicago. He was the star of a humble coloring ...

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” started out as a children's story first released by Montgomery Ward in 1939. The popular poem about the "most famous reindeer of all" would later go on to ...

The beloved American children's classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was published in 1939 by the Montgomery Ward department store. So it's tempting to think of it—like Campbell's Green Bean ...