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Charles Lummis’s Coast to Coast Journey

by | Nov 2, 2007 | Features & Gunfights

Photographs captured on his odyssey are the heart of a new Autry exhibit.
The 26 year old’s decision to walk across the West seemed pure folly to some: “What a picnic those fellows out in the plains will have with the seat of Lummis’s breeches.” Nonetheless, Charles Lummis endeavored to walk from Cincinnati, Ohio, all the way to Los Angeles. More than half a century before Jack Kerouac hit the road in a Hudson, this


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