Ernest Dawson (1 December 1882, in San Antonio, Texas – 15 November 1947, in Los Angeles) was an American antiquarian bookseller, small press publisher, mountain climber, and Sierra Club president.
Ernest Dawson, born in Texas, moved in 1885 with his parents and siblings to San Luis Obispo, California.
... Henry Ward, a dealer in second-hand paper-covered novels and dime thrillers who had arrived from London in 1891 and settled in Los Angeles in 1894, was a great hand at “ticketing” books and may have been the first bookseller in Los Angeles to install a rental library on his premises.
[2]In 1905 he founded Dawson's Book Shop, a bookstore located at 713 South Broadway in Los Angeles.
[4] Ernest Dawson was an active climber and expedition leader in the Sierra Nevada and in southern California.