CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED CIRCA 1927 - HFSID 280713
Price: $140.00
CHARLES F. LUMMIS
Autograph Sentiment signed the year before he died
Autograph Sentiment signed: "Sincerely Yours/Chas. F.Lummis", 4x1¼,
affixed to 4¾x1¾ slip. Ink date (unknown hand): March 17, 1927. As a young man
Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928) received acclaim for his Birch Bark
Poems, printed on paper thin strips of birch bark. Offered a newspaper job
in Los Angeles in 1884, he traveled there from Cincinnati on foot, a journey of
143 days, sending weekly dispatches along the way. This experience, recounted in
A Tramp Across the Continent (1892) began his lifelong love of the
American West and of Native American cultures. After four years as the first
city editor of the Los Angeles Times, Lummis moved to New Mexico to recover
from a stroke. There he became an advocate for Native Americans, strongly
criticizing their mistreatment by the US government. He founded the Sequoya
League to promote Indian rights, enlisting the aid of former Harvard
classmate Theodore Roosevelt. Returning to Los Angeles, he became the city's
head librarian and founded the Southwest Museum (1914). He edited a
journal titled Out West, which published works by John Muir and Jack London,
as well as 500 of his own articles. Unevenly trimmed. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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