The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/James, George Wharton

JAMES, George Wharton, American explorer, ethnologist, lecturer and author: b. Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England, 27 Sept. 1858. He spent many years in making geological and other researches in California and elsewhere in the southwestern United States, is a member of various learned societies in this country and England; was associate editor The Craftsman, 1904-05; editor Out-West, 1912-14, and lecturer at the Panama-Pacific and Panama-California expositions, 1915-16. He published &lsquo;The Lick Observatory&rsquo; (1888); &lsquo;Nature Sermons&rsquo;; &lsquo;Picturesque Southern

California&rsquo;; &lsquo;From Alpine Snow to Semi-Tropical Sea&rsquo;; &lsquo;In and Around the Grand Canyon&rsquo; (1900); &lsquo;Indian Basketry&rsquo; (1900); &lsquo;The Indians of the Painted Desert Region&rsquo; (1903); &lsquo;How to Make Indian and other Baskets&rsquo; (1903); &lsquo;Travelers' Handbook to Southern California&rsquo;; &lsquo;In and Out of the Old Missions of California&rsquo; (1905); &lsquo;The Story of Scraggles&rsquo;; &lsquo;The Wonders of the Colorado Desert&rsquo; (1906); &lsquo;What the White Race May Learn from the Indian&rsquo;; &lsquo;Through Ramona's Country&rsquo; (1907); &lsquo;The Grand Canyon of Arizona&rsquo; (1909); &lsquo;The Hero of California&rsquo; (1910); &lsquo;Indian Blankets and their Makers&rsquo;; &lsquo;California, Romantic and Beautiful&rsquo; (1914); &lsquo;The Lake of the Sky, Lake Tahoe&rsquo;; &lsquo;Our American Wonderlands&rsquo; (1915); &lsquo;Living the Radiant Life&rsquo;; &lsquo;Quit Your Worrying&rsquo;; &lsquo;Arizona, the Wonderland&rsquo;; &lsquo;Reclaiming the Arid West&rsquo; (1916); &lsquo;Exposition Memories&rsquo; (1917); &lsquo;House Blessing and Guest Book&rsquo; (1918).
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