# Dallas Lore Sharp

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**Dallas Lore Sharp** (1870–1929) was an American author and university [professor](/source/Professor), born in the [Haleyville](/source/Haleyville,_New_Jersey) section of [Commercial Township](/source/Commercial_Township,_New_Jersey), in [Cumberland County, New Jersey](/source/Cumberland_County,_New_Jersey).[2]

He graduated at [Brown University](/source/Brown_University) in 1895, served as a Methodist Episcopal minister for four years, and graduated at the [Boston University School of Theology](/source/Boston_University_School_of_Theology) in 1899. He married Grace Hastings and the couple had four sons, including [Waitstill Sharp](/source/Waitstill_Sharp).

He was assistant [librarian](/source/Librarian) (1899–1902), assistant professor of [English](/source/English_language) (1902–09), and thereafter professor at [Boston University](/source/Boston_University).

As a writer he became known through his charming [magazine](/source/Magazine) articles on native birds and small mammals and for his books which featured illustrations by American wildlife illustrator [Robert Bruce Horsfall](/source/Robert_Bruce_Horsfall) as well as artist Elizabeth Myers Snagg.

## Works

- *Wildlife Near Home* (1901)
- *A Watcher in the Woods* (1903)[3]
- *Roof and Meadow* (1904)[4]
- *The Lay of the Land* (1908) illustrated by Elizabeth Myers Snagg
- *Ways of the Woods* (1908)
- *A Cure for Winter* (1908)[5]
- *In American Fields and Forests* (1908) (with Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, Bradford Torrey, Dallas Lore Sharp, Olive Thorne Miller, and John Muir)
- *The Spring of the Year* (1909)
- *The Fall of the Year* (1911)
- *The Face of the Fields* (1911)
- *Winter* (1912)
- *Summer* (1913)
- *The Year Out of Doors* (1914)
- *Beyond the Pasture Bars* (1914)
- *Where Rolls the Oregon* (1914) (revised and reprinted as *[Eastern Naturalist in the West: Dallas Lore Sharp 1912](https://www.amazon.com/Eastern-Naturalist-In-The-West/dp/0971187207)* by Sand Lake Press)
- *The Whole Year Round* (1915)
- *The Hills of [Hingham](/source/Hingham,_Massachusetts)* (1916)
- *Patrons of Democracy* (1920)
- *The Seer of Slabsides* (1921)
- *A January Summer* (1922)
- *Highlands and Hollows* (1923)
- *The Magical Chance* (1923)
- *The Spirit of the Hive* (1925)
- *Sanctuary! Sanctuary!* (1926)
- *The Better Country* (1928)
- *Romances frrm the Old Testament* (1932)
- *Christ and His Time* (1933)

## References

1. [*Catalogue*](https://books.google.com/books?id=IVUiAQAAMAAJ&q=dallas+lore+sharp&pg=RA3-PA32). 1899.

1. Sharp, Dallas Lore; and Millard, Columbus Norman. [*A Watcher in the Woods*](https://books.google.com/books?id=qw09AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR8), p. viii. [Century Company](/source/Century_Company), 1911. Accessed July 23, 2014. "Dallas Lore Sharp was born on a farm in Haleyville, New Jersey, where the pine barrens, the marshes of Maurice River, and the great river swamps stretched out around him."

1. [Sharp, Dallas Lore. *A Watcher in the Woods*, New York. The Century Co., 1903](https://books.google.com/books?id=qw09AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR8)

1. ["Roof and meadow"](http://dmr.bsu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/HistChldBks&CISOPTR=31701&REC=1)

1. ["Atlantic monthly c.1 v.101 Jan-Jun 1908."](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.78023880&seq=218&q1=disease). *HathiTrust*. Retrieved 2024-10-08.

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