Larger Than Life: Charles Fletcher Lummis
Clip: Season 8 Episode 1 | 3m 9s
Charles Lummis spread a gospel of indigenous and regional Southwestern history and culture
A New Englander by birth, Charles Fletcher Lummis dropped out of Harvard and briefly settled in Ohio as a poet and journalist. In the 1880s, he showed up semi-famous in Los Angeles, having spent half a year walking here. Along the way, he filed regular dispatches of his journey in the LA Times, which promptly hired him as city editor when he arrived. Thus began a life of letters and adventures.
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Larger Than Life: Charles Fletcher Lummis
Clip: Season 8 Episode 1 | 3m 9s
A New Englander by birth, Charles Fletcher Lummis dropped out of Harvard and briefly settled in Ohio as a poet and journalist. In the 1880s, he showed up semi-famous in Los Angeles, having spent half a year walking here. Along the way, he filed regular dispatches of his journey in the LA Times, which promptly hired him as city editor when he arrived. Thus began a life of letters and adventures.
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