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. His book ''Rimrock Jones'' was adapted into the 1918 film ''

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''. The Smithsonian Museum has three of his photographs in its collection. He wrote several dozen novels and many tens of short stories. Coolidge was born in

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, the son of Francis Coolidge and Sophia (née Whittemore) Coolidge. His father had a farm in

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. He grew up in Riverside and went to

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and did postgraduate work at

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. Coolidge collected animal specimens for the

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, Stanford University, the U.S. National Zoological Park,

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, and the United States Natural History Museum. He was a charting member of the

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.Shamel, H. Harold. "Dane Coolidge. 1873-1940." ''Journal of Mammalogy'' 22, no. 1 (1941): 114. Accessed July 9, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/1374694. He married one of his former teachers, sociologist Mary Roberts, on July 30, 1906, in

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. They wrote ''The Navajo Indians'' in 1930. They also studied and photographed the

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in the 1930s and wrote the book ''The Last of the Seris''. Coolidge died in his Berkeley home on August 8, 1940.

Bibliography

*''Hidden Water'' (1910) *''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) *''The Navajo Indians'' (1930) *''The Last of the Seris'' with Mary Roberts Coolidge (1939) *''Bear Paw'' (1941)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Coolidge, Dane 1873 births 1940 deaths People from Natick, Massachusetts American writers American photographers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American short story writers American male non-fiction writers American male novelists American male short story writers American Western (genre) novelists Pulp fiction writers