Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Travel literature

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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

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

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

John Millington Synge, Irish Writer
(1871-1909)

Just the Facts:

Name: Edmund John Millington Synge
Known as: John Millington Synge
Birth: April 16, 1871, Rathfarnham, Republic of Ireland
Death: March 24, 1909, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Language: English
Who he was: Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer, and folklorist; play The Playboy of the Western World
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 2); Bloom

J. Smeaton Chase, English-Born American Author
(1864-1923)

Just the Facts:

Name: Joseph Smeaton Chase
Known as: J. Smeaton Chase
Birth: April 8, 1864, London, England, UK
Death: March 29, 1923, Banning, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: English-born American author; California Coast Trails; California Desert Trails; The Penance of Magdalena: and Other Tales of the California Missions
Included in lists (What's This?): CA

Charles Warren Stoddard, American Author and Editor
(1843-1909)

Just the Facts:

Name: Charles Warren Stoddard
Birth: August 7, 1843, Rochester, New York, USA
Death: April 23, 1909, Monterey, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American author and editor; South-Sea Idyls; Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska; In the Footprints of the Padres; Summer Cruising in the South Seas

Francis Galton, English Polymath
(1822-1911)

Just the Facts:

Name: Francis Galton
Birth: February 16, 1822, Birmingham, England, UK
Death: January 17, 1911, Haslemere, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English polymath; "The Classification of Human Ability" from Hereditary Genius
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 3)

William L. Manly, American Pioneer
(1820-1903)

Just the Facts:

Name: William L. Manly
Birth: April 6, 1820, St. Albans, Vermont, USA
Death: February 5, 1903, Lodi, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American pioneer; Death Valley in '49
Included in lists (What's This?): CA

Henry David Thoreau, American Writer
(1817-1862)

Just the Facts:

Name: Henry David Thoreau
Birth: July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Death: May 6, 1862, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American writer; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Civil Disobedience; Walden; Walking
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 2, 3); HC; LRP; Bloom; GC

Richard Henry Dana, American Writer
(1815-1882)

Just the Facts:

Name: Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Birth: August 1, 1815, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Death: January 6, 1882, Rome, Italy
Language: English
Who he was: American writer; Two Years before the Mast
Included in lists (What's This?): HC; CA; Bloom

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

Matsuo Basho, Japanese Buddhist Monk and Poet
(1644-1694)

by Hokusai

Just the Facts:

Name: Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa or Matsuo Kinsaku
Known as: Matsuo Basho or just "Basho"
Birth: Unknown Date, 1644, Iga Province (now in Mie), Japan
Death: November 28, 1694, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who he was: Japanese Buddhist monk and poet; Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North) (one of the "Four Great Haiku Masters")
Included in lists (What's This?): LRP

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!

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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