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In 1884, with a job offer to be City Editor of the Los Angeles Times, Charles Fletcher Lummis driven to walk to his new job from Ohio, covering over 3,500 a long way through 8 areas and territories. He observed and documented the finish of the old American West and the start of the modern age, which picked new winners and losers. Exciting author, excited Indian protection under the law activist, pioneering reporter, workaholic newspaper editor, librarian, poet, anthropologist and archeologist, Charles Fletcher Lummis was a great colorful individualist, who explored and popularized the facts and legends of the American Southwest. In this first person narrative, nothing you've seen prior recorded as an audio tracks book, Lummis represents the invasion of the Western by investors, forcing out small miners and ranchers. He considers the last of the buffalo, is nearly murdered by prisoners, goes to the Southwest Indian pueblos before there were highways, befriends a puppy who moves mad, performs do it yourself surgery while alone in the wild, is nearly freezing in a blizzard and satisfies the great colorful individuals of the American West.
