Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-14

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the northern portion of Arizona. For
weeks he lived among these people,
asking them simple questions and
entering into their daily thoughts
and duties. Somehow, he believes
that he caught the spirit of these
folks and. he is hoping that his lat
est novel will prove one of the fin"
est and most solid that he has yet
produced.
The founding and building of such
cities as Cananea and Douglas vitally
interests Dane Coolidge and he
wants to dramatic in accurate story
form the vital drama which was be-
ing played when the mines were first
opened and the great railroads swept
into the then unbroken and open
spaces of the desert.
While here, he is gathering bits
of old tales about Col Green, who
came to this county from Texas, be-
came the idol of many cattlemen,
grew to be lavish promoter and
founded the Cananea Cattle company
and the Cananea Consolidated Mining
company. There are many in Doug
las and vicinity today who knew
bill" Green, who are happy in just
talking about him and from whom
Coolidge is hoping to CLEAN facts
which will make his novels stimulat-
ing and not merely readable. After
passing about two weeks here, he
intends to go to Herim osillo for fur
ther research work. Each year Of
late, the author has been producing
two douotino ahOnt two
months to gathering the material
and then three to writing his story
with the sixth month in each instance
usually given over to recreation ana
further travelling. Of his last hall
dozen novels, Coolidge has had five
accepted in succession and the one
story was refused only because It's
theme was a bit too tragic in Its IN
donations, ito appeal to the general
public.
Born in Massachusetts, Dane Cool
idge continued his education there
long enough to pass a year at Har-
ward which to him is not exactly an
inspiring memory since he studied
under a professor who failed to ap-
preciate his writing style and almost
stifled his literary hopes. He then
came west and was graduated from
Leland Stamford university Whlle
always being interested in writing
he gave many years when first out
of colleh~ u expeditions for the col
lecr1on OF mammals birds and rep
tiles for various museum projects.
He worked for some time for the
Smithsonian Institute, collected mann
| States National
Museum, was in Mexico for the Brit
ish Museum and hunted live animals
for the United States National 70
oligical park in Washington. BEFORE
going into field work, he trapped
for his own amusement and knows
ledge while in Stanford and just al
ter graduation, led an expedition IN
to Lower California.
California in Dane Coolidge's mind
is East and to saturate oneself
with the western atmosphere he flnds
it necessary to trek back to the
mountains and desert-into Arizona
New York, with it's congestion and
excitable crowds beats too fast d
tempo for the quiet student OF the
endless west and he harbors no crav-
ing to return to the confines or the
metropolis. When home in Berkeley,
amongst friends in a writer's club
/ there, Dane Coolidge is satisfied with
life for stretchr-then comes the
call to roam again and find out more
about where the west begins. so ne
| starts out to gather material Tor
spell, later returning home Tor a
/ time to write about it all.
"The Popular Magazine is one OF
his favorite story fields while some
/ of his novels have run in snort
/ Stories and various other Wldely
read magazines. There is little OF
the world he has not seen, ana ne
/ has lived among the cowmen' cattle-
men and Indians of whom he writes.
! From Montana to Mexico, he has
talked with the inhabitants of the
outdoors and around many soldlers
Of fortune in the mining and cattle
/, ranks he has builded his novels.