American traveler and ethnologist, born in Massachusetts, and graduated at Harvard; settled in Ohio in 1882; walked from there to California (3,250 miles), and narrated his experiences during this novel kind of a pleasure-trip in his Tramp Across the Continent, a successful book of genuine adventure; settled in Los Angeles, CA, as owner and editor of the Los Angeles Times; on account of ill-health, he decided to live an open-air life among the Pueblo Indians, and explored thoroughly, first New Mexico, and later, in 1892, Peru and Bolivia. Among his books, well received by the public, are A New Mexico David; Some Strange Corners of Our Country; The Land of Poco Tiempo; The Spanish Pioneers; The Man Who Married the Moon (Pueblo Indian folklore); The Gold Fish of Gran Chimú (a Peruvian tale); and Mexico To-day (1898). In 1895 he became editor of a Los Angeles monthly, The Land of Sunshine. See also “A Poe-em of Passion.”
