A Tramp Across the Continent
Written by Charles Fletcher Lummis
Narrated by Andre Stojka
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Adventurous author, pioneering reporter, workaholic newspaper editor, passionate Indian rights activist, librarien, poet, anthropologist and archeologist, Charles Fletcher Lummis was a great colorful individualist who explored and popularized the American Southwest.
In 1884, with a job offer to become City Editor of the Los angeles Times, Lummis determined to walk to his new job from Ohio, covering over 3,500 miles through 8 states and territories. He witnessed and documented the end of the old American West and the beginnings of the modern age which picked new winners and new losers. Travel with him and hear in his own words this extraordinary adventure.
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Charles Fletcher Lummis
Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928) was an American journalist, activist, and historic preservationist. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, he was homeschooled by his father and attended Harvard University. To pay for his studies, Lummis published Birch Bark Poems, an acclaimed collection. In 1880, he married Dorothea Rhodes in Cincinnati, where he worked for a local newspaper. Offered a position with the Los Angeles Times, Lummis embarked on a 3,507 mile journey by foot across the American West, sending dispatches along the way. He became the first City Editor of the Los Angeles Times upon arrival, but after several years suffered a debilitating stroke that forced him to resign. He went to New Mexico to recover, eventually settling with the Pueblo Indians at the village of Isleta. In 1890, Lummis joined his friend Adolph Bandelier in his study of the local indigenous people. He became a prominent activist for Indian rights, clashing with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and eventually founding the Southwest Museum of the American Indian in Los Angeles.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is an account written a few years after the fact, of the author's walk from Cincinnati Ohio to Los Angeles, CA in 1884. The author made a deal with the publisher of the LA Times that if he walked the distance, and submitted reports to the paper along the way, then he would become editor upon his arrival. The book is well written. It is not really a gripping story, but today it is interesting to read an account of the American West during a relatively short period when it was not quite wild, but not yet overcome by civilization. It might also be interesting to read the original reports. I don't know if those are available.
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