Dallas Lore Sharp (1870–1929) was an American author and university

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, born in the Haleyville section of Commercial Township, in

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. He graduated at

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in 1895, served as a Methodist Episcopal minister for four years, and graduated at the

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in 1899. He married Grace Hastings and the couple had four sons, including

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. He was assistant

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(1899–1902), assistant professor of

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(1902–09), and thereafter professor at

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. As a writer he became known through his charming

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articles on native birds and small mammals and for his books which featured illustrations by American wildlife illustrator Robert Bruce Horsfall as well as artist Elizabeth Myers Snagg.

Works

* ''Wildlife Near Home'' (1901) * ''A Watcher in the Woods'' (1903) * ''Roof and Meadow'' (1904) * ''The Lay of the Land'' (1908) illustrated by Elizabeth Myers Snagg * ''Ways of the Woods'' (1908) * ''In American Fields and Forests'' (1908) (with Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, Bradford Torrey, Dallas Lore Sharp, Olive Thorne Miller, and John Muir) * ''The Spring of the Year'' (1909) * ''The Fall of the Year'' (1911) * ''The Face of the Fields'' (1911) * ''Winter'' (1912) * ''Summer'' (1913) * ''The Year Out of Doors'' (1914) * ''Beyond the Pasture Bars'' (1914) * ''Where Rolls the Oregon'' (1914) (revised and reprinted as
Eastern Naturalist in the West: Dallas Lore Sharp 1912
' by Sand Lake Press) * ''The Whole Year Round'' (1915) * ''The Hills of Hingham'' (1916) * ''Patrons of Democracy'' (1920) * ''The Seer of Slabsides'' (1921) * ''A January Summer'' (1922) * ''Highlands and Hollows'' (1923) * ''The Magical Chance'' (1923) * ''The Spirit of the Hive'' (1925) * ''Sanctuary! Sanctuary!'' (1926) * ''The Better Country'' (1928) * ''Romances frrm the Old Testament'' (1932) * ''Christ and His Time'' (1933)

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