George Wharton James
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Born | 27 September 1858 Lincolnshire, England |
Died | 1923 |
Occupation | lecturer, photographer, journalist |
Subject | California and the American Southwest |
George Wharton James (27 September 1858[1] – 1923) was a prolific popular lecturer, photographer and journalist, writing more than 40 books and many articles and pamphlets on California and the American Southwest.
Biography
James was born in Lincolnshire, England. He was ordained as a Methodist minister and came to the United States in 1881, serving in parishes in Nevada and southern California. However, in 1889 he was sued for divorce, accused by his wife with committing numerous acts of adultery. He subsequently underwent an ecclesiastical trial, charged with real estate fraud, using faked credentials, and sexual misconduct. He was defrocked, although he was later reinstated. He had a long-running feud with Charles Fletcher Lummis, another writer with similar regional interests.[2]
James' books included the well-received The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (1906),[3] Through Ramona's Country (1909), In and Out of the Old Missions of California (1905), and The Lake of the Sky (1915). Characteristics of his writing included romanticism, an enthusiasm for natural environments, idealization of aboriginal lifeways, and health faddism. He was associate editor of The Craftsman (1904–05), editor of Out West (1912–14),[4] and lectured at the Panama-Pacific and Panama-California expositions 1915–16.[5]
In Pasadena, James lived with his second wife at 1098 North Raymond Avenue which, according to Lawrence Clark Powell, "became a kind of museum salon in the same way that El Alisal served as the center for his rival booster Lummis' Los Angeles followers. He also created the Pasadena Browning Society as well as the Anti-Whispering Society. According to Powell, the Anti-Whispering Society was "devoted to the suppression of (1) talking audiences, (2) peanut fiends, and (3) crying babies."[6]
The California State Library and the University of California, Berkeley have collections of James' books and pamphlets. A collection of his photographs is on file at the University of New Mexico. The Southwest Museum in Los Angeles also has some of his papers and photographs.
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Notes
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- ↑ Starr, Kevin (1985). Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era. New York: Oxford University Press.
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- ↑ OCLC 3687761 and OCLC 702604648
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- ↑ Eytel contributed the color plate Mirage in the Desert (1905) and over 300 drawings – Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. LCC Z1251.S8 E3
References
- Bourdon, Roger Joseph (1966). George Wharton James, Interpreter of the Southwest. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles. Ph.D. thesis. pp. 375. OCLC 28143279, 32290472 and 52598780
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- Starr, Kevin (1973 and 1986). Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 494. ISBN 978-0195016444 (1986) OCLC 641725018 and 254930084
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External links
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- Works by George Wharton James at Project Gutenberg
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- Works by George Wharton James at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- "An Adventure in Beaver Canyon 1899" at the Wayback Machine (archived October 28, 2009)
- "Basket Makers," Sunset 8(1) (1901)
- "A Saboba Origin-Myth" (1902)
- "The Legend of Tauquich and Algoot" (1903)
- The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It at the Wayback Machine (archived October 28, 2009) (1910)
- <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/> The Old Franciscan Missions Of California by George Wharton James at Project Gutenberg (1913)
- George Wharton James at Find a Grave
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- 1858 births
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