author
George Harrison De La Vergne
1868–1957
An early writer on Hawaii and the American West, he published vivid sketches, stories, and historical writing that reflect a late-19th- and early-20th-century frontier world. His work ranges from travel-flavored observation to war and regional history, giving modern listeners a glimpse of the era he wrote in.
1 Audiobook
Six prize Hawaiian stories of the Kilohana Art League
by Emma Louise Smith Dillingham, William N. (William Nevins) Armstrong, George Harrison De La Vergne, James W. (James Walter) Girvin
About the author
George Harrison De La Vergne was an American author whose surviving published work places him in both literary and legal circles. Records for Hawaiian Sketches identify him as born in 1868, while a Cornell law thesis credits him as the author of Irrigation Laws of the West in 1894.
His books suggest a writer drawn to place and history. Hawaiian Sketches points to an interest in Hawaii at the end of the 19th century, while other attributed works, including At the Foot of the Rockies and The Wilderness: A Battle Picture, show a range that reached from regional storytelling to Civil War subject matter.
Some catalog and memorial sources disagree slightly on his birth year, and I could not confirm enough biographical detail to describe his personal life with confidence. What does come through clearly is a body of work shaped by landscape, travel, and American historical memory.