Charles F. Lummis: Editor of the Southwest (The Huntington Library Classics) - Softcover

Bingham, Edwin R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873282213 ISBN 13: 9780873282215

Publisher: Huntington Library Press, 2006

Synopsis

Charles F. Lummis (1859 -1928) was a colorful, dynamic, and often eccentric crusader for the Spanish heritage of California. The founder and editor of Land of Sunshine or Out West, as the magazine was known after 1902 he recruited writers such as Mary Austin, Jack London, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to contribute short stories, poetry, articles, and essays, many of them based on Western themes. Lummis himself wrote editorials extolling the glories of Southern California, decrying racial prejudice, and calling for the preservation of California’s historic landmarks.

Bingham examines Out West from a number of angles: as a Western business enterprise, as a promotional vehicle, as an outlet and training ground for regional writers, and as an instrument of reform. His study, first published in 1955, remains an important and absorbing account of Lummis’s life and of the magazine he established.

About this title

About the Author:

Edwin R. Bingham is professor emeritus of history at the University of Oregon. He is the author of a biography of Charles Erskine Scott Wood and the editor of California Gold, Northwest Perspectives, American Frontier, Frontier Experience, and Fur Trade in the West.

Review:

"Bingham writes an important chapter in Western literary history, describing the association of [Lummis] with such writers as Washington Matthews, Ambrose Bierce, Frank Norris, Joaquin Miller, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Sharlot M. Hall, and Mary Austin."--"American Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Huntington Library Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0873282213
• ISBN 13: 9780873282215
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228