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The Legend of Tauquitch and Algoot (Forgotten Books)
The Legend of Tauquitch and Algoot - Forgotten Books Author:George Wharton James The Legend of Tauquitch and Algoot by George Wharton James [1903]. — About the Author — George Wharton James (1858 - 1923) — George Wharton James (1858-1923) was a prolific popular lecturer and journalist, writing more than 40 books and many articles and pamphlets on California and the American Southwest. — James was born in Lincolnshire, Eng... more »land. 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.
James' books included The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (1906), Through Ramona's Country (1909), In & Out of the Old Missions of California (1912), 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 had a long-running feud with Charles Fletcher Lummis, another writer with similar regional interests. (Quote from wikipedia.org)
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