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Name: WHITE, Stewart Edward

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Birth Date: 12 Mar 1873 Grand Rapids, Michigan

Death Date: 18 Sep 1946 Hillsborough, California

Profession: Writer, novelist, spiritualist

Married: In Newport, Rhode Island 28 Apr 1904 Elizabeth 'Betty' Calvert Grant b. 16 Nov 1879 Colon, Panama, d. 7 Apr 1939 Burlingame, California

Children: None

Author: The Land of Footprints, 1913

Book Reference: Kill, Happy, Chandler

School: Central High School, Grand Rapids; Columbia Univ

General Information:

Happy - 'Sometimes, of course, a crack shot possesses all the other qualities; such as the case with Stewart Edward White, whom Cuninghame classified as the best shot with whom he had hunted in all his 25 years in the wilds.
Chandler - White was a prolific and popular novelist (and a major figure in the Spiritualist movement) who jumped on the Theodore Roosevelt safari bandwagon. ….  [more]
Kill - the Stewart Edward White "bow and arrow" venture, which signalized a return to primitive man's methods and was successfully achieved.
Wikipedia: Stewart Edward White (March 12, 1873 – September 18, 1946) was an American writer, novelist, and Spiritualist. He was a brother of noted mural painter Gilbert White. White was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of Mary E. (Daniell) and Thomas Stewart White, a lumberman. He attended Grand Rapids High School, and earned degrees from University of Michigan (B.A., 1895; M.A., 1903). From about 1900 until about 1922 he wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. Starting in 1922 he and his wife Elizabeth "Betty" Grant White wrote numerous books, that, according to them, were received through channelling with spirits. They also wrote about their travels around the state of California. White died in Hillsborough, California, on September 18, 1946, at the age of 73. 
White's books were popular at a time when America was losing its vanishing wilderness. He was a keen observer of the beauties of nature and human nature, yet could render them in a plain-spoken style. Based on his own experience, whether writing camping journals or Westerns, he included pithy and fun details about cabin-building, canoeing, logging, gold-hunting, and guns and fishing and hunting. He also interviewed people who had been involved in the fur trade, the California Gold Rush and other pioneers which provided him with details that give his novels verisimilitude. He salted in humor and sympathy for colorful characters such as canny Indian guides and "greenhorn" campers who carried too much gear. White also illustrated some of his books with his own photographs, while some of his other books were illustrated by artists, such as the American Western painter Fernand Lungren for The Mountains and Camp and TrailTheodore Roosevelt wrote that White was "the best man with both pistol and rifle who ever shot" at Roosevelt's rifle range at Sagamore Hill
The Long Rifle (1930), Folded Hills (1932), Ranchero (1933), and Stampede (1942) constitute The Saga of Andy Burnett, which follows a young Pennsylvania farm boy who escapes his overbearing step father by running away to the West with grandmother's blessing and "The Boone Gun", the original Kentucky rifle carried by Daniel Boone. He encounters mountain man Joe Crane, who becomes his mentor in the ways of survival in the wild. The remainder of the saga follows Andy as he moves west, ultimately settling in California, which is the setting of the last three books. The series incorporates actual events and characters from the time period in the narrative. The four stories were published as a posthumous volume, The Saga of Andy Burnett, in 1947, and were adapted into several episodes of The Wonderful World of Disney during 1957 and 1958, starring Jerome Courtland as Andy Burnett, and Jeff York (Mike Fink) as his friend and mentor Joe Crane. This series was in many ways a follow-up to Disney's much more successful Davy Crockett.

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