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Robert Sparks Walker Robert Sparks Walker was born, February 4, 1878, Chicamauga, Tennessee. He was educated in Hamilton County, Tennessee schools, and attended Maryville College. He obtained his LL.B. degree from the University of Chattanooga in 1905. There is no indication-in this biographical source-as to whether he ever practiced law. He lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee. [Source: "A Bibliographical Dictionary of Poets," in William Stanley Braithwaite (ed.), Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926: And Yearbook of American Poetry 40 (Boston: B.J. Brimmer Co., 1926)(Dictionary at pp. 1-43, separate pagination)] Biographical
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Naturalist Robert Sparks Walker Remembered Robert Sparks Walker's Journal Poem Poetry Robert Sparks Walker, Anchor Poems (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1925) Writings Robert Sparks Walker, My father's farm (Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1927) __________________, A Brief Story of an Old Mission (Nashville: cokesbury Press, 1930) __________________, Torchlights to the Cherokees; the Brainerd Mission (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931)(Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press, 1993) __________________, Outdoors in the Cumberlands (Chattanooga: Chattanooga Community Association, 1933) __________________, Eating thunder and other stories / Author: Walker, Robert Sparks, 1878-1960. Publication: New York: Association Press, 1933 __________________, The Beechblock circus. Author: Walker, Robert Sparks. Publication: New York: Assoc. Press, 1934 __________________, When God Failed (Dallas: Kaleidograph Press, 1938) __________________, This is Chattanooga / Author: Walker, Robert Sparks, 1878-1960. Publication: Chattanooga, Tenn.: Andrews Printing Co., 1949 __________________, The Chickamauga Dam and its environs (Chattanooga: Andrews Print. Co., 1949) __________________, Lookout: The Story of a Mountain (Kingsport, Tennessee: Southern Publishers, 1941)(Chattanooga, Tennessee: Geo. C. Hudson & Co., 1952) __________________, Lookout Mountain: Battles and Battlefields (Chattanooga, Tennessee: Kingwood Publishers, 1946)(Chattanooga, Tenn.: G.C. Hudson, 1952)
Confederate and Union forces clash at Lookout Mountain. [Used with permission of the Florida Center for Instructional Technology] __________________, State Flowers and State Birds: being an authentic record of the official flowers and birds of all the states in America, poetized (Litchfield, Illinois: Sunshine Press, 1950)(Litchfield, Ill.: Sunshine Press, 1960) __________________, As the Indians left it; the story of the Chattanooga Audubon Society and its Elise Chapin Wildlife Sanctuary (Chattanooga: G.C. Hudson, 1955) Research Resources Robert
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