Dane Coolidge (March 24, 1873 – August 8, 1940) was an American author, naturalist, and photographer. He wrote fiction, non-fiction, and articles featuring the American West. He wrote short stories for magazines and made illustrations.[1] His book Rimrock Jones was adapted into the 1918 film Rimrock Jones. The Smithsonian Museum has three of his photographs in its collection.[2] He wrote several dozen novels and many tens of short stories.[3]
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| Born | March 23, 1873 Natick, Massachusetts, USA |
| Died | August 8, 1940 (aged 67) Berkeley, California, USA |
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| Alma mater | Stanford University |
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| Years active | 1910–1940 |
| Spouse | Mary Roberts Coolidge |
| Relatives | Calvin Coolidge (cousin) |
Coolidge was born in Natick, Massachusetts, the son of Francis Coolidge and Sophia (née Whittemore) Coolidge. His father had a farm in Riverside, California.[3] He grew up in Riverside and went to Stanford University and did postgraduate work at Harvard University.[2]
Coolidge collected animal specimens for the British Museum, Stanford University, the U.S. National Zoological Park,[2] New York Zoological Park, and the United States Natural History Museum.[3] He was a charting member of the American Society of Mammalogists.[4]
He married one of his former teachers, sociologist Mary Roberts, on July 30, 1906, in Berkeley.[3] They wrote The Navajo Indians in 1930. They also studied and photographed the Seri people of Sonora in the 1930s and wrote the book The Last of the Seris.[2] Coolidge died in his Berkeley home on August 8, 1940.[4]
Bibliography
edit- Hidden Water (1910)[1]
- The Texican (1911)
- The Fighting Fool (serial 1913; book 1918)
- Bat-Wing Bowles (serial, Alias Bowles, 1913; book 1914)
- The Desert Trail (1915)
- Rimrock Jones (1917)
- Shadow Mountain (1919)
- Silver and Gold (1919)
- Wunpost (1920)
- The Man-Killers (1921)
- Bitter Creek (serial From Bitter Creek, 1921-1922)
- Lost Wagons (1923)
- The Law West of the Pecos (1924)
- The Scalp-Lock (1924)
- Lorenzo the Magnificent (serialized as The Riders from Texas, 1924; book 1925)
- Under the Sun (1926)
- Not-Afraid (1926)
- Gun Smoke (1928)
- Horse-Ketchum (1930)
- Jess Roundtree, Texas Ranger (1933)
- Ranger Two-Rifles (1937)[3]
- The Navajo Indians (1930)
- The Last of the Seris with Mary Roberts Coolidge (1939)
- Bear Paw (1941)
References
edit- ^ a b "Guide to the Dane Coolidge papers, ca. 1889-1942". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
- ^ a b c d "Dane Coolidge photographs from Mexico · SOVA". sova.si.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
- ^ a b c d e HYMAN, CAROLYN (2010-06-12). "COOLIDGE, DANE". tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
- ^ a b Shamel, H. Harold. "Dane Coolidge. 1873-1940." Journal of Mammalogy 22, no. 1 (1941): 114. Accessed July 9, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/1374694.