Dane Coolidge (1873-1940) was an American author. He was born in Natick, Massachusetts. He was brought up in Riverside, California, and received his higher education at Stanford and Harvard Universities. From 1895 to 1900 he was a field collector of mammals, birds and reptiles in Nevada, Arizona and Southern California for a number of institutions, including Stanford University, the British Museum, U. S. National Zoological Park, and the U. S. National Museum in Italy and France. In 1910, his first novel, Hidden Water, was published, and this was followed by a long succession of novels and some non-fiction, with California and Southwest locales. In addition, he contributed short stories and illustrated articles to several magazines, including Youth's Companion, Sunset, Redbook, Harper's and Country Life in America. His other works include: The Texican (1911), Bat Wing Bowles (1914), The Desert Trail (1915), Rimrock Jones (1917), The Fighting Fool (1918), Silver and Gold (1919), Shadow Mountain (1919), Wunpost (1920), The Man-Killers (1921), Lost Wagons (1923), The Scalp-Lock (1924), Lorenzo the Magnificent (The Riders From Texas) (1925), Not-Afraid (1926), Under the Sun (1926) and Gun-Smoke (1928).
