Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: SW

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Erna Fergusson, New Mexico Writer
(1888-1964)

Just the Facts:

Name: Erna Fergusson
Birth: January 10, 1888, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Death: July 30, 1964, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Language: English
Who she was: New Mexico-based writer, historian, and storyteller, who documented the culture and history of New Mexico for more than forty years. Wrote Dancing Gods.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!

Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

Stewart Edward White, American Writer
(1873-1946)

Just the Facts:

Name: Stewart Edward White
Birth: March 12, 1873, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Death: September 18, 1946, Hillsborough, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American writer, novelist, and spiritualist who wrote Arizona Nights
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Will Levington Comfort, Adventure Writer
(1878-1932)

Just the Facts:

Name: Will Levington Comfort
Birth: February 17, 1878, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Death: November 2, 1932, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American adventure writer known for adventure for Apache; three of his works were the basis of feature films.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Francisco Garces, Spanish Franciscan
(1738-1781)

Garces converting Indians

Just the Facts:

Name: Francisco Garces
Birth: April 12, 1738, Morata de Jalón, Spain
Death: July 18, 1781, Fort Yuma, California, USA
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Pioneering Spanish Franciscan missionary and explorer of Sonora and Baja California, Mexico, and Arizona and California, USA. Left a Diary after being killed in an Indian uprising near present-day Yuma, Arizona.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

J. Ross Browne, Adventure Writer
(1821-1875)

Just the Facts:

Name: J(ohn) Ross Browne
Birth: February 11, 1821, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Death: December 9, 1875, Oakland, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: Irish-born American traveler, artist, writer and government agent who wrote Adventures in the Apache Country
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Martha Summerhayes, Arizona Writer
(1844-1926)

Just the Facts:

Name: Martha Summerhayes
Birth: October 22, 1844, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
Death: May 12, 1926, Schenectady, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American travel memoirist and "army wife" who brought her Massachusetts sensibilities to Vanished Arizona, her observations of life in that territory, where she and her husband lived off and on from 1874 to 1900.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

John C. Van Dyke, American Art Scholar
(1856–1932)

Just the Facts:

Name: John C. Van Dyke
Birth: April 21, 1856, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Death: Unknown place and date, 1932
Language: English
Who he was: American art historian and critic who wrote not only on art, but on his time in the West in The Desert. Also a posthumous Autobiography.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Frank Waters, American Writer
(1902-1995)

Just the Facts:

Name: Frank Waters
Birth: July 25, 1902, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Death: June 3, 1995, Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American writer; novels: The Man Who Killed the Deer; The Yogi of Cockroach Court; The Woman at Otowi Crossing; also, Book of The Hopi; Pumpkin Seed Point
Included in lists (What's This?): (SW)

Paul Horgan, American Author
(1903-1995)

Just the Facts:

Name: Paul Horgan
Birth: August 1, 1903, Buffalo, New York, USA
Death: March 8, 1995, Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American author; Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History; Lamy of Santa Fe; Pulitzer Prize for History (1955, 1976)
Included in lists (What's This?): (SW)

Lewis H. Garrard, American Adventurer
(1829-1887)

Just the Facts:

Name: Lewis H. Garrard
Birth: June 15, 1829, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Death: July 7, 1887, Lakewood, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American adventurer who wrote Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Susan Shelby Magoffin, American Frontier Traveler
(1827-1855)

Just the Facts:

Name: Susan Shelby Magoffin
Birth: July 30, 1827, Danville, Kentucky, USA
Death: October 26, 1855, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American traveler and diarist; Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Oliver La Farge, American Novelist and Anthropologist
(1901-1963)

Just the Facts:

Name: Oliver La Farge
Birth: December 19, 1901, New York City, New York, USA
Death: August 2, 1963, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American novelist and anthropologist; Laughing Boy; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, (1929)
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Ross Santee, American Writer and Illustrator
(1889-1965)

from a book jacket

Just the Facts:

Name: Ross Santee
Birth: August 16, 1888, Keokuk, Iowa, USA
Death: June 28, 1965, Globe, Arizona, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American writer and illustrator; Lost Pony Tracks; Cowboy
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Mabel Dodge Luhan, American Writer and Patron
(1879-1962)

Just the Facts:

Name: Mabel Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan
Known as: Mabel Dodge Luhan (or Lujan)
Birth: February 26, 1879, Buffalo, New York, USA
Death: August 13, 1962, Taos, New Mexico, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American writer and patron; Edge of the Taos Desert; Winter in Taos
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Willa Cather, American Author
(1873-1947)

Just the Facts:

Name: Willa Cather
Birth: December 7, 1873, Gore, Virginia, USA
Death: April 24, 1947, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American author; O Pioneers!; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Song of the Lark; My Ántonia; Pulitzer Prize in Literature (1923)
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP); SW; Bloom

Eugene Manlove Rhodes, American Writer
(1869-1934)

Just the Facts:

Name: Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Birth: January 19, 1869, Tecumseh, Nebraska, USA
Death: June 27, 1934, Pacific Beach (?), California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American writer; Paso por Aqui
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Josiah Gregg, American Merchant and Author
(1806-1850)

Just the Facts:

Name: Josiah Gregg
Birth: July 19, 1806, Overton County, Tennessee, USA
Death: February 25, 1850, Clearlake, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American merchant, naturalist, and author; Commerce of the Prairies
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Eusebio Kino, Italian Jesuit Missionary
(1645-1711)

Just the Facts:

Name: Eusebius Chinus (or Chini)
Known as: Eusebio Kino
Birth: August 10, 1645, Bishopric of Trent
Death: March 15, 1711, Magdalena de Kino, Mexico
Language: Italian, Spanish
Who he was: Italian Jesuit missionary; Spain in the West: Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimería Alta
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!

Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

Charles Fletcher Lummis, American Character
(1859-1928)

Just the Facts:

Name: Charles Fletcher Lummis
Birth: March 1, 1859, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
Death: November 24, 1928, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American journalist, historian, ethnographer, archaeologist, poet, librarian, and museum founder; Land of Sunshine (magazine, later called Out West); Some Strange Corners of Our Country; The Spanish Pioneers and the California Missions; Flowers Of Our Lost Romance; A Tramp Across the Continent; The Land of Poco Tiempo
Included in lists (What's This?): CA; SW

Joseph Wood Krutch, American Writer
(1893-1970)

Just the Facts:

Name: Joseph Wood Krutch
Birth: November 25, 1893, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Death: May 22, 1970, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American writer, critic, and naturalist; The Desert Year; The Twelve Seasons; The Measure of Man
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

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