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).
gollark: I've never particularly needed to, but I feel like never saying anything could end up worse than the alternative.
gollark: Yes, what? indeed.
gollark: You are very fortunate.
gollark: I see.
gollark: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to print.

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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