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]

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)

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 on 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 (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

External links

• Works by Dane Coolidge at Project Gutenberg