LUMMIS, CHARLES FLETCHER (1859-1928), Ameri can author, was born at Lynn, Mass., on March 1, 1859, and educated at Harvard. After several years as newspaper editor in Ohio he tramped by a roundabout route to Los Angeles, Calif., where he became city editor of the Los Angeles Daily Times. A stroke of paralysis in 1886 forced him to suspend his editorial work and for a number of years he spent much of his time travel ling over the South-west on horseback. For five years he lived in the Indian pueblo of Isleta, N.M., learning the Indian lan guages and customs. In 1892 he accompanied the historian, Adolph F. Bandelier, on a scientific expedition to Peru and Bolivia. He was the founder and editor of Out West Magazine, 1894-1909, and librarian of the Los Angeles public library, 1905-10. He was founder and president of the Landmarks club of California and was active in securing the preservation of a number of South western missions. He was one of the incorporators of the Archae
ological Institute of America and founder of the Southwest museum. He made phonograph records of 55o old Spanish songs of the South-west and 425 Indian songs. His writings did much to make the many interesting phenomena of the South-west more widely known. He died at Los Angeles, Calif., on Nov. 25, 1928.
Besides many articles, stories and poems in various magazines he published A Tramp Across the Continent (1892) ; Some Strange Corners of Our Country (1892) ; The Spanish Pioneers (1893) ; The Land of Poco Tiempo (1893) ; The Man who Married the Moon, and Other Pueblo Indian Folk-stories (1894) The Awakening of a Nation (1898) ; Mesa, Callon and Pueblo ; Spanish Songs of Old California