Dane Coolidge

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 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 was married to sociologist Mary Roberts Coolidge in July 30, 1906, in Berkeley.[3] They wrote The Navajo Indians in 1930. They also studied and photographed the Seri people 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
  • Hidden Water[1]
  • Rimrock Jones
  • The Texican (1911)
  • The Law West of the Pecos (1924)
  • Lorenzo the Magnificent
  • The Riders from Texas (1925)
  • Jess Roundtree, Texas Ranger (1933)
  • Ranger Two-Rifles (1937)[3]
  • The Navajo Indians (1930)
  • The Last of the Seris with Mary Roberts Coolidge (1939).
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References
  1. "Guide to the Dane Coolidge papers, ca. 1889-1942". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  2. "Dane Coolidge photographs from Mexico · SOVA". sova.si.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  3. HYMAN, CAROLYN (2010-06-12). "COOLIDGE, DANE". tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  4. 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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