As a writer he became known through his charming magazine articles on native birds and small mammals and for his books which featured illustrations by American wildlife illustrator Robert Bruce Horsfall as well as artist Elizabeth Myers Snagg.
Works
Roof and meadow (1904) illustration
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)
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 by Sand Lake Press)
^Sharp, Dallas Lore; and Millard, Columbus Norman. A Watcher in the Woods, p. viii. 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."
^Sharp, Dallas Lore. A Watcher in the Woods, New York. The Century Co., 1903