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American Character
Charles Fletcher Lummis began his spectacular career in 1884 by walking from Ohio to start a new job at the three-year old Los Angeles Times. By the time of his death in 1928, the 3,500 mile "tramp across the continent" was just a footnote in his astonishingly varied career: crusading journalist, author of nearly two dozen books, editor of the influential political and literary magazine Out West, Los Angeles city librarian, preserver of Spanish missions, and Indian rights gadfly. Lummis both embodied and defined our vision of the West, and of America itself.
Charles F. Lummis
Author, photographer, historian, archeologist, and preservationist, Charles Fletcher Lummis stood tall in the affections of American Southwesterners at the turn of the 20th century. A flamboyant figure of enormous energy, he championed Indian rights and Hispanic culture, while introducing Easterners, through his many books, to the rich heritage of New Mexico, Arizona, and California. After years of fading from view, the large Lummis legacy is being rediscovered. His works are coming back into print and in 2006 the city of Los Angeles inaugurated an annual Lummis Day Festival. This little book can acquaint readers with a remarkable recorder of history and can help to reawaken interest in his efforts to preserve the distinctive cultures of the American Southwest. Additionally, this book contains, as its first chapter, the complete contents of the classic Two Southwesterners: Charles Lummis & Amado Chaves by Marc Simmons, originally published by San Marcos Press in 1968 and long unavailable until now.
Charles F. Lummis
The man, Charles F. Lummis, and his magazine, Out West, are the subjects of this vital and absorbing study. Lummis, an aggressive and talented editor, projected his personality and translated his ideas into action through the literary and promotional monthly that served, throughout the decade split by the turn of the 19th century, as the primary medium of cultural expression in southern California and the Southwest. This book has a shifting focus, now on editor Lummis, now on Out West, and frequently on both -- Book jacket.
A Tramp Across the Continent
Lummis' foot journey from Ohio to Los Angeles. Very descriptive of the Southwest.
The Spanish Pioneers
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American Character
An engaging and spirited biography detailing the rise and fall of a man as colorful as he was influential.
Sandpapers
The story of two literary greats, Eugene Manlove Rhodes and Charles Fletcher Lummis, in the American Southwest through their letters.
The Land of Poco Tiempo
The story of New Mexico as Lummis found it when he moved to the territory in 1888 to recover his health. As Lummis translates the Spanish title, "poco tiempo" means "pretty soon" the phrase expresses the lack of haste in the lives of the area's inhabitants.
The Spanish Pioneers
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