Dane Coolidge

American author, naturalist, and photographer

Dane Coolidge

Born| (1873-03-23)March 23, 1873
Natick, Massachusetts, USA
Died| August 8, 1940(1940-08-08) (aged 67)
Berkeley, California, USA
Occupation|

* Novelist
* Short story writer
* Naturalist
* Photographer

Alma mater| Stanford University
Genre|

* Westerns
* Non-Fiction

Years active| 1910–1940
Spouse| Mary Roberts Coolidge
Relatives| Calvin 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.

## External links

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* Works by Dane Coolidge at Project Gutenberg

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