Letters from the Southwest: September 20, 1884 to March 14, 1885

Name: Letters from the Southwest: September 20, 1884 to March 14, 1885
Brand: University of Arizona Press
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By Charles Lummis

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In the fall of 1884, journalist Charles Lummis set out on foot from Ohio to California on assignment for the Los Angeles Times . The reports he mailed ahead to that newspaper were later refashioned for the book A Tramp Across the Continent , a work that helped to establish Lummis as the most active promoter of Southwestern ture who ever lived. Lummis wrote another set of letters during his journey, however, which he sent back to Ohio for publication by the Chillicothe Leader . Although these letters contain basically the same narrative as those sent to Los Angeles and later found in A Tramp , the Ohio letters more closely reflect the author’s thoughts and observations while on the journey. In fact, a comparison of the two drafts indicates that Lummis spent considerable effort removing spontaneous details from the Ohio letters in favor or a more commercial, self-promoting, and politic reporting for the California paper. The twenty-four Ohio letters, assembled here by James W. Byrkit, offer a far more candid look at the Southwest than Lummis was later to bring to print, as well as greater insight into the author’s own personality. Byrkit’s introductory essay provides the background for Lummis’s career, compares the three bodies of work relating to the trek, and offers an account of Lummis’s transformation from chronicler to promoter.

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Edition:: 2
Number of Pages:: 309
Release Date:: 1989-04-01
Publication Date:: 1989-04-01
Publisher:: University of Arizona Press
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0816510393
Weight:: 658 g

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