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Charles Fletcher Lummis was born on March 1, 1859 at Lynn, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Henry and Harriet (Fowler) Lummis. His father was a minister and teacher.
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A study of Mexico and its nationhood at the end of the nineteenth century - a great reference on the emergence of Mexico as a nation. Charles Lummis (1859-1928) was an author, journalist, editor, photographer, Los Angeles city librarian, adventurer, close friend and Harvard classmate of Theodore Roosevelt, and champion of the American Indian. He walked from Cincinnati to Los Angeles in the winter of 1884-1885 to accept a job on the then three-year old Los Angeles Times.
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Excerpt from A New Mexico David: And Other Stories and Sketches of the Southwest I doubt very much if Lucario Montoya had ever heard of that wonderful fight of long ago between the shepherd stripling and Goliath of Gath. Certainly he had never read of those things, for a book would have been the most incomprehensible of mysteries to Lucario. But in the great and m. Scho ar, for In that he had had the most learned of schoolmasters -his Mexican father and his Indian acquaintances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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From the preface: The poems of Charles Fletcher Lummis, gathered together in this volume, vividly reflect the adventure, enterprise, and experiences of an exceedingly eventful life. Poet, scholar, scientist, explorer, athlete, breaker of wild horses, librarian, editor, historian...Here is the desert, the great Apache, the pursuit, alive again...His vision is direct and clear, his song musical and resolute. Never is there literary pretense, or vague harmony disguising lack of substance. The least of his poems is scholarly. But even more admirable is the excellence of fearlessness and sincerity burning high and clear throughout these songs of his adventuring. -- Henry Herbert Knibbs, 1928
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Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859 – 1928) was a United States journalist and Indian rights and historic preservation activist; he is also known as a historian, photographer, ethnographer, archaeologist, poet and librarian. The average man and, even more yet, the average woman maintains year in and year out a uniform habit of work and play, desiring no radical change of place or of association. Even when the vacation time arrives (for those who can take vacations) there seems to be a general tendency to seek more of that of which they have already had too much. Those who go away now and then to foreign countries usually keep the busy towns and well traveled roads in sight, even begrudging a slow sail across the ocean. It would most surely be better If those who desire absolute rest by means of absolute change would oftener seek out the wild , but by no means forbidden, places on our own continent where nature has tried her most striking experiment and history has left her most curious traces. Such seems to be the opinion of Mr. Lummls, author of 'Some Strange Corners of Our Country". Crossing the Colorado line and continuing westward through Arizona, we come to that stupendous national wonder, the awe-inspiring Grand Canyon. As Lummis, poetically expresses it: "In the very cradle of recorded Time. the Grand Canon was waiting, under the Slow Smile of God for Man to come to it and know his chiefest wonder-vision on earth: this vast chameleon, unearthly, attainable. Mirage in immortal Rock." This volume describes in chapters of convenient length and with numerous excellent illustrations the scenery and the ancient architectural remains of New Mexico and Arizona, but gives far more space to the strange and the always interesting, customs of the Pueblo and Navajo Indians now living in that corner of our country. The descriptions are given in the style of a true story teller, nevertheless the book gives the impression of being highly instructive as well as fascinating. It is the fruit of careful investigations made by Mr. Lummis and his wife among the tribes and in the regions described. Lummis shows himself thoroughly familiar with the scenes he describes. The strange corners are in the Southwest, and the author never forgets it is 'our' country; indeed, the patriotism is so marked as to be almost didactic. 'Don't go to Europe till you have seen what America has to show' is the substance of his advice to his readers. The book is entertaining, although some of the descriptions so exhaust themselves in superlatives as to lose in vividness. A striking chapter is the one concerning the crucifixion ceremonies of the New Mexican Penitentes. Besides this ghastly horror, the realism of Ober-Ammergau pales into insignificance. if the reader be fired with an ambition to see the places and things described , Mr. Lummis will have attained his object. CONTENTS I The Grandest Gorge In The World II A Forest Of Agate HI The American Sahara IV The Rattlesnake Dance V Where They Beg The Bear's Pardon VI The Witches' Corner VII The Magicians VIII The Self-crucifiers IX Homes That Were Forts X Montezuma's Well XI Montezuma's Castle XII The Greatest Natural Bridge On Earth XIII The Stone Autograph-album XIV The Rivers Of Stone XV The Navajo Blanket XVI The Blind Hunters XVII Finishing An Indian Boy XVIII The Praying Smoke XIX The Dance Of The Sacred Bark XX Doctoring The Year XXI An Odd People At Home XXII A Saint In Court This book originally published in 1892 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
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Charles Fletcher Lummis was born on March 1, 1859 at Lynn, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Henry and Harriet (Fowler) Lummis. His father was a minister and teacher.
Lummis was educated largely at home. He studied at Harvard from 1877 to 1881, but did not receive his degree until 1906.
From 1882 to 1884 Lummis was editor of the Scioto Gazette, at Chillicothe, Ohio. In September of the latter year he started from Cincinnati on a walking trip to Los Angeles "for recreation and observation, " arriving at his destination on February 1, 1885, after covering a distance of 3, 507 miles. In a Canyon in Arizona on this trip he broke his arm but after setting the bone himself and binding it up in a rude sling he continued on his way. The day after his arrival at the end of his journey he entered the employ of the Los Angeles Times and served as city editor from 1885 to 1887. Overwork brought on paralysis, and in January 1888, with one arm hanging limp, he went to New Mexico to recuperate and for long periods lived among the Pueblo Indians in their villages, learning their customs, languages, folk lore, and folk songs, much of which material he incorporated later in books of history, fiction, essay, and verse.
By 1891 he had recovered fully from his illness. In 1892, associated with Adolph Bandelier, he took part in a two years' ethnological and historical expedition to Peru and Bolivia. Upon his return to Los Angeles in 1894, he founded and assumed the editorship of Land of Sunshine, a magazine devoted to the life and history of the Far West, continued later under the title Out West. The decade of the nineties was a period of productive writing. In 1891 appeared A New Mexico David and in the following year A Tramp Across the Continent, describing his walking trip of 1884-1885. In the same year he published Some Strange Corners of Our Country. In 1893 he published his two books: The Land of Poco Tiempo and The Spanish Pioneers. In 1905 he became librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library serving until 1910 and building up in this period a fine collection of Southwest material.
In 1911 he was stricken with blindness which was complete for many months but from which he fully recovered. One of his greatest achievements was the founding and building of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, an institution fostering the historical, archeological, and ethnological interests of the Southwest. To this work he gave much of his time and energy in his later years. He was the founder of The Landmarks Club and through many years was indefatigable in his efforts to preserve the Spanish missions and other historical relics of California and the neighboring states.
He also interested himself in the songs of the Southwest and made phonographic records of more than five hundred early Spanish songs of the region and more than four hundred Indian songs in many languages. Spanish Songs of Old California (2 vols. , 1923 - 1928) and Mesa, Canyon and Pueblo (1925) reflect his ethnological and literary interests in these years. The early Spanish and Mexican inhabitants and the native population of the region provide the personal content of most of Lummis' literary products. But he occasionally wrote on other phases of life, as for example My Friend Will (1911) which is a stimulating account of the psychological battle which he fought against paralysis and of his subsequent recovery. His first book was a collection of verses published in 1879 on real bark, bearing the title Birch Bark Poems, and the last book which appeared in his lifetime was a poetical volume entitled A Broncho Pegasus (1928). Flowers of Our Lost Romance was accepted by the publishers before his death but did not appear until 1929.
His style was stirring and colorful, full of imagery and original and well-turned phrases. Although a pioneer in the study of the Southwest, he was a journalist rather than a scholar and he was more successful in his prose descriptions of strange people and places than he was in the field of verse or in that of history or archeology.
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Lummis was married three times; to Mary Dorothea Roads, April 16, 1880, to Eva Douglas, March 27, 1891, and to Gertrude Redit, May 9, 1915.