Cooper.
Bk. Buyer, 25 ('02): 199.
Bookm. 27 ('08): 458, 465 (portrait).
Critic, 41 ('02): 358.
Cur. Lit. 33 ('02): 127 (portrait), 238.
Dial, 59 ('15): 303.
Ind. 60 ('06): 1159 (portrait).
Lond. Times, July 4, 1902: 196.
World's Work, 5 ('02): 2792, 2795 (portrait); 6 ('03): 3694.
+Charles Erskine Scott Wood+--poet.
Born at Erie, Pennsylvania, 1852. Graduate of U.S. Military Academy,
1874; Ph.B., LL.B., Columbia, 1883. Served in the U.S. Army, 1874-84, in
various campaigns against the Indians. Admitted to the bar, 1884, in
Portland, Oregon, and practiced until he retired, 1919. Painting, as well
as writing, an avocation.
His knowledge of the Indians and of the desert appears in his principal
work, a long poem in the manner of Whitman, _The Poet in the Desert_.