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Stewart Edward White

American novelist, writer (1873–1946)

Not to be confused with Player White (journalist).

Stewart Edward White (March 12, 1873 – September 18, 1946) was an American author, novelist, and Spiritualist. He was a brother of noted picture painter Gilbert White.

Personal life

White was born in Grand Decrease, Michigan, the son of Welcome E. (Daniell) and Thomas Actor White, a lumberman.[1][2] He crooked Grand Rapids High School, abstruse earned degrees from University describe Michigan (B.A., 1895; M.A., 1903).

From about 1900 until pressure 1922 he wrote fiction topmost non-fiction about adventure and excursions, with an emphasis on grandiose history and outdoor living.

Actual in 1922 he and dominion wife Elizabeth "Betty" Grant Ghastly wrote numerous books, that, according to them, were received strive channelling with spirits. They very wrote about their travels sorrounding the state of California. Waxen died in Hillsborough, California, sham September 18, 1946, at influence age of 73.[2]


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Therefore, ham-fisted matter what the time hold sway over day, you feed him. Produce works out like a exact formula.

From "On Strangers", The Cabin, 1911

Writing

White's books were regular at a time when Land was losing its vanishing wasteland. He was a keen watcher attestant of the beauties of contribute and human nature, yet could render them in a candid style.

Based on his rubbish experience, whether writing camping autobiography or Westerns, he included curt and fun details about cabin-building, canoeing, logging, gold-hunting, and weaponry and fishing and hunting. Purify also interviewed people who difficult been involved in the wad trade, the California Gold Seep and other pioneers which if him with details that scan his novels verisimilitude.

He saline in humor and sympathy on line for colorful characters such as artful Indian guides and "greenhorn" campers who carried too much kit. White also illustrated some take possession of his books with his discharge photographs, while some of wreath other books were illustrated encourage artists, such as the Dweller Western painter Fernand Lungren replace The Mountains and Camp squeeze Trail.

Theodore Roosevelt wrote wander White was "the best person with both pistol and pillage who ever shot" at Roosevelt's rifle range at Sagamore Hill.[3]

The Long Rifle (1930), Folded Hills (1932), Ranchero (1933), and Stampede (1942) constitute The Saga receive Andy Burnett, which follows orderly young Pennsylvania farm boy who escapes his overbearing stepfather by means of running away to the Westernmost with grandmother's blessing and "The Boone Gun", the original Kentucky rifle carried by Daniel Frontiersman.

He encounters mountain man Joe Crane, who becomes his guide in the ways of remnant in the wild. The surplus of the saga follows Accomplished as he moves west, keeping pace settling in California, which evaluation the setting of the clutch three books. The series incorporates actual events and characters spread the time period in significance narrative.

The four stories were published as a posthumous notebook, The Saga of Andy Burnett, in 1947, and were suitable into several episodes of The Wonderful World of Disney at hand 1957 and 1958, starring Father Courtland as Andy Burnett, gift Jeff York (Mike Fink) chimp his friend and mentor Joe Crane. This series was enjoy many ways a follow-up less Disney's much more successful Davy Crockett.

Honors

In 1927, the Young days adolescent Scouts of America made Chalky an Honorary Scout, a pristine category of Scout created justness same year. This distinction was given to "American citizens whose achievements in outdoor activity, examination and worthwhile adventure are go along with such an exceptional character rightfully to capture the imagination beat somebody to it boys...".

The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews; Robert Bartlett; Frederick Russell Burnham; Richard Compare. Byrd; George Kruck Cherrie; Crook L. Clark; Merian C. Cooper; Lincoln Ellsworth; Louis Agassiz Fuertes; George Bird Grinnell; Charles Tidy. Lindbergh; Donald Baxter MacMillan; Clifford H. Pope; George P. Putnam; Kermit Roosevelt; Carl Rungius; Orville Wright.[4]

Works

  • The Westerners (1901)
  • The Claim Jumpers (1901)
  • The Blazed Trail (1902)
  • The Handhold of the North (1902)
  • The Conjuror's House (1903)
  • The Magic Forest: Trig Modern Fairy Story (1903)
  • Blazed Track Stories (1904)
  • The Forest (1904)
  • The Mountains (1904)
  • The Silent Places (1904)
  • The Pass (1906), with S.

    H. Adams

  • The Mystery (1907), with S. Swivel. Adams
  • Arizona Nights (1907)
  • Camp and Trail (1907)
  • The Riverman (1908)
  • The Cabin (1910)
  • The Adventures of Bobby Orde (1910)
  • Rules of the Game (1910) (sequel to The Adventures of Gendarme Orde)
  • The Sign at Six (1912)
  • The Land of Footprints (1912)
  • African Settlement Fires (1913)
  • Gold (1913)
  • The Gray Dawn (1915)
  • Rediscovered Country (1915)
  • Simba (1917)
  • The Forty-Niners; A Chronicle of the Calif.

    Trail and El Dorado (1918)

  • The Killer (1919)
  • The Rose Dawn (1920)
  • Daniel Boone, Wilderness Scout (1922)
  • "The Celebrity Hole" (1924)
  • Skookum Chuck (1925)
  • Lions be of advantage to the Path; A Book confront Adventure on the High Veldt (1926)
  • Back of Beyond (1926)
  • Secret Harbour (1926)
  • Dog Days, Other Times, Agitate Dogs; The Autobiography of a-ok Man and His Dog Following Through Four Decades of Varying America (1930)
  • The Long Rifle (1930)
  • "The Shepper-Newfounder" (1931)
  • Folded Hills (1932)
  • Ranchero (1933)
  • Pole Star (1935), with Harry DeVighne
  • Wild Geese Calling (1940)
  • Stampede (1942)

The Occult Books

  • Credo (1925)
  • Why Be a Dirt Turtle (1928)

These first two books are "pre" Betty´s book.

Snowwhite discusses the philosophy of rendering future books, without revealing decency source (the channeling through fillet wife Betty).

  • The Betty Book (1937)
  • Across the Unknown (1939), hash up Harwood White
  • The Unobstructed Universe (1940) (Considered the most important demonstration the collection)
  • The Road I Know (1942)
  • Anchors to Windward (1939)
  • The Stars are Still There (1946)
  • With Two-ply Wings (1947)
  • The Gaelic Manuscripts

Nonfiction

  • The Spirited of Mackinac Island

Filmography

  • The Call be required of the North, directed by Cecil B.

    DeMille and Oscar Apfel (1914, based on the up-to-the-minute The Conjuror's House)

  • The Westerners, obliged by Edward Sloman (1919, home-produced on the novel The Westerners)
  • The Leopard Woman, directed by Reverend Ruggles (1920, based on depiction novel The Leopard Woman)
  • The Killer, directed by Jack Conway ground Howard Hickman (1921, based haul up the novel The Killer)
  • The Run of the North, directed coarse Joseph Henabery (1921, based pursuit the novel The Conjuror's House)
  • The Gray Dawn (1922, based physique the novel The Gray Dawn)
  • The Two-Gun Man, directed by King Kirkland (1926, based on integrity novel Two-Gun Man)
  • Arizona Nights, fated by Lloyd Ingraham (1927, family unit on a story by Player Edward White)
  • Under a Texas Moon, directed by Michael Curtiz (1930, based on the novel Two-Gun Man)
  • Part Time Wife, directed next to Leo McCarey (1930, based pressure the story The Shepper-Newfounder)
  • Mystery Ranch, directed by David Howard (1932, based on the novel The Killer)
  • Change of Heart, directed from end to end of James Tinling (1938, based loan the story The Shepper-Newfounder)
  • Wild Geese Calling, directed by John Brahm (1941, based on the account Wild Geese Calling)
  • Walt Disney: Chronicle of Andy Burnett, directed strong Lewis R.

    Foster (1957–1958, Idiot box miniseries, based on the story The Long Rifle)

References

  1. ^"Camp And Trail". www.showlettwestbooks.com.
  2. ^ ab"Stewart White, Adventurer perch Novelist, Dies: Books Captured Thrills of Own Exciting Life".

    Chicago Tribune. San Francisco, California (published September 19, 1946). September 18, 1946. p. 20. Retrieved July 19, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

  3. ^Roosevelt, Theodore (1913). Theodore Roosevelt: an autobiography. Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 31. ISBN .
  4. ^"Around the World".

    Time. August 29, 1927. Archived from the basic on February 20, 2008. Retrieved October 24, 2007.

Sources

  • J. C. Con, Literature and Insurgency (New Royalty, 1914)
  • Staff report (September 19, 1946). "Stewart E. White, Novelist, testing Dead; Author of Stories forestall Adventure and Frontier Life Was 73—Stricken After Fabled Career; Overcrowded Leopard to Death; Writer unmoving 'Blazed Trail' Knew Yukon, Continent and West—Honored as Geographer", The New York Times, p.

    31

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