Background
Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928) was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. He became a journalist and then an activist for Native
American rights and historic preservation. A traveler in the American Southwest, he settled in Los Angeles, California, where
he also became known as a historian, photographer, ethnographer, archaeologist, poet, and librarian. Lummis founded the Southwest
Museum of the American Indian. He died in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1928. Robert John Henderson DeLoach (1873-1974)
was a Georgia-based botanist, writer, and close friend of the American poet John Burroughs.
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