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Dane Coolidge

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Dane Coolidge
Born(1873-03-23)March 23, 1873
Natick, Massachusetts, USA
DiedAugust 8, 1940(1940-08-08) (aged 67)
Berkeley, California, USA
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • Short story writer
  • Naturalist
  • Photographer
Alma materStanford University
Genre
  • Westerns
  • Non-Fiction
Years active1910–1940
SpouseMary Roberts Coolidge
RelativesCalvin Coolidge (cousin)

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]

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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b "Guide to the Dane Coolidge papers, ca. 1889-1942". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  2. ^ a b c d "Dane Coolidge photographs from Mexico · SOVA". sova.si.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  3. ^ a b c d e HYMAN, CAROLYN (2010-06-12). "COOLIDGE, DANE". tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  4. ^ 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.
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