A Tramp Across the Continent
Lummis, Charles F. [and Prof Dudley Gordon]
Language: English
Published by Calvin Horn, 1969
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FINE/nFINE. Blue cloth boards brown tiling and decorations. SIGNED by Contributor - Prof Dudley Gordon, who directed the anniversay re-publication of Lummis's work. [B67].
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- Title
- A Tramp Across the Continent
- Author
- Lummis, Charles F. [and Prof Dudley Gordon]
- Publisher
- Calvin Horn
- Publication year
- 1969
- Signed
- Signed by Contributor
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 091075019X
- ISBN 13
- 9780910750196
- Edition
- First Thus.
I would have this unpretentious book taken only for what it is the wayside notes of a happy vagabondizing. It was written in hurried moments by the coal-oil lamps of country hotels, the tallow dips of section-house or ranch, the smoky pine knots of the cowboy's or the hunter's cabin, the crackling fogon of a Mexican adobe, or the snapping greasewood of my lonely campfire upon the plains; and from that vagrant body and Spirit I have not tried to over-civilize it. A prim chronicle of such a trip would be no chronicle at all. Nor have I desired to make it either an atlas or an encyclo paedia of the country. Economic and geographic essays do not belong within its s00pe. It is merely a truthful record of some of the experiences and impressions of a walk across the continent - the diary of a man who got outside the fences of civil ization and was glad of it. It is the simple story of joy on legs.
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"[A] time-honored classic."--"New Mexico Magazine".
"[A] time-honored classic."-New Mexico Magazine
"Lummis walked from Ohio to California in 1884, and in the journal he published in 1892 he calls his saga ''the simple story of joy on legs.'' In a vivid style he tells of losing his way in a blizzard, setting his own broken arm in the wilderness, and other rugged adven-tures."-American West
"The true value of the book is in the glimpse of what it was like to come upon, talk and travel with a wide range of Westerners, for Lummis was a born reporter who, indeed, ended his three-thousand-mile tramp by walking into the Los Angeles Daily News and starting work as city editor."-English Westerners'' Tally Sheet
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