The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (151 page)

57.
Frank Graham, Jr.,
The Audubon Ark: A History of the National Audubon Society
(New York: Knopf, 1990), pp. 58–59.

58.
Dutcher quoted in “History of Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge.”

59.
Robert R. Cointepoix, “Early Ornithologists,” p. 128.

60.
Paul Tritaik to Douglas Brinkley, Marc 25, 2009. Spoke to Tritaik around a dozen times.

19: P
ASSPORTS TO THE
P
ARKS

1.
T.R. to John Pitcher (February 18, 1903).

2.
T.R. to John Pitcher (March 2, 1900).

3.
Aubrey L. Haines,
The Yellowstone Stories,
Vol. 2 (Yellowstone National Park, Wyo.: Yellowstone Library and Museum Association, 1977), p. 81.

4.
T.R. to Frederick Weyerhaeuser (March 5, 1903).

5.
T.R. to John Burroughs (March 7, 1903).

6.
Edward J. Renehan, Jr.,
John Burroughs
, (Post Mills, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 1992), pp. 227–228.

7.
John Burroughs, “Real and Sham Natural History,”
Atlantic Monthly
, Vol. 91, (March 1903).

8.
T.R. to Ernest Thompson Seton, quoted in Paul Russell Cutright,
Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist
(New York: Harper, 1956), p. 131.

9.
Renehan,
John Burroughs
, pp. 232–233.

10.
Ernest Thompson Seton,
Life Histories of Northern Animals: An Account of the Mammals of Manitoba
(New York: Scribner, 1909). Ernest Thompson Seton,
Lives of Game Animals
(New York: Doubleday, 1929).

11.
John Burroughs to Julian Burroughs (March 31, 1903), Vassar Library Collection, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

12.
Burroughs, “Real and Sham Natural History,”
Atlantic Monthly
, 91 (March 1903).

13.
T.R. to John Burroughs (March 7, 1903).

14.
Paul Schullery, “Theodore Roosevelt: The Scandal of the Hunter as Nature Lover,” in Natalie A. Naylor, Douglas Brinkley, and John Allen Gable (eds.),
Theodore Roosevelt: Many Sided American
(Interlaken, N.Y.: Heart of the Lakes, 1992), p. 229.

15.
T.R. quoted in Aubrey L. Haines,
The Yellowstone Story: A History of Our First National Park
(Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1977), p. 81.

16.
Donald Worster,
Nature’s Economy
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 260. Also Eric Busch of University of Texas at Austin (a PhD student in history) helped me formulate this idea. He is a cutting-edge new environmental historian whose expertise pertains to the Rocky Mountains.

17.
“President’s Train Ready,”
New York Times
(April 1, 1903), p. 8.

18.
John Burroughs,
Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt
(Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), p. viii.

19.
“Snow in Yellowstone Park,”
New York Times
(March 24, 1903), p. 5.

20.
“Invites John Burroughs,”
New York Times
(March 16, 1903), p. 1.

21.
New York Times
(April 29, 1903). (Obituary.)

22.
“Wyoming for Roosevelt,”
New York Times
(March 18, 1903), p. 3.

23.
“Rival Towns Upset by the President’s Trip,”
New York Times
(March 24, 1903), p. 5.

24.
“A Bear for the President,”
New York Times
(March 25, 1903), p. 1.

25.
“Cowboys to Greet President,”
New York Times
(April 2, 1903), p. 1.

26.
“Dynamite Salute Planned,”
New York Times
(April 6, 1903), p. 1.

27.
“The President’s Progress,”
New York Times
(April 2, 1903), p. 8.

28.
T.R. to John Burroughs (March 14, 1903).

29.
Burroughs,
Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt
, pp. 5–6.

30.
T.R. to Dr. C. Hart Merriam (March 31, 1903).

31.
Howells quoted in William M. Gibson,
Theodore Roosevelt among Humorists
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980), p. 21.

32.
John Burroughs, “Camping with President Roosevelt,”
The Atlantic Monthly
, May 1906 (Vol. 97, No. 5).

33.
“President Discusses the Monroe Doctrine,”
New York Times
(April 3, 1903), p. 1.

34.
H. Paul Jeffers,
Roosevelt the Explorer: Teddy Roosevelt’s Amazing Adventures as a Naturalist, Conservationist, and Explorer
(New York: Taylor Trade, 2003).

35.
“Dooleyized’ the President: University of Chicago Students Adopt a Popular Song in Welcoming Mr. Roosevelt,”
New York Times
(April 3, 1903), p. 1.

36.
Paul Schullery, “Buffalo Jones and the Bison Herd in Yellowstone,”
Montana: The Magazine of Western History
, Vol. 26, No. 3 (July 1986), pp. 40–51.

37.
T.R. to Clinton Hart Merriam, April 16, 1903.

38.
T.R. to Lieutenant General S. B. M. Young (January 22, 1908), Yellowstone Reference Library, Yellowstone National Park.

39.
Brodie Farquehar, “Centennial Anniversary of Visit This Month,”
Caspar Star Tribune
(April 1, 2003), p. C1.

40.
T.R. to C. Hart Merriam (April 22, 1903).

41.
Burroughs,
Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt
, p. 8.

42.
Ibid., pp. 26, 29.

43.
Ibid., pp. 111, 60.

44.
“President Kills Lion in Yellowstone Park,”
New York Times
(April 12, 1903), p. 1.

45.
“President on the Move,”
New York Times
(April 15, 1903), p. 1.

46.
Burroughs,
Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt
, p. 66.

47.
T.R. to Dr. C. Hart Merriam (April 22, 1903).

48.
Haines,
The Yellowstone Story
, Vol. 2, pp. 229–237.

49.
“Roosevelt Delights in Yellowstone,”
Caspar Star Tribune
(April 11, 2003), p. C1.

50.
“The President in the Park,”
Forest and Stream
, Vol. 60, No. 18 (May 2, 1903).

51.
Erin H. Turner,
It Happened in Yellowstone
(Guilford, Conn.: Morris, 2001), p. 47.

52.
“The President in the Park.”

53.
“Resumes His Tour,”
Washington Post
(April 25, 1903), p. 1.

54.
Liz Nelson, “The Hermit of Ravenswood,”
Special Places,
Vol. 14, No. 3 (Fall 2006), pp. 8–10.

55.
T.R. to George Bird Grinnell (April 24, 1903).

56.
Morison (ed.), T.R. in
The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt
, Vol. 3.

57.
Burroughs,
Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt
, pp. 59–60.

58.
T.R. to Gifford Pinchot (April 9, 1906), Series 2, Vol. 62, Reel 241, p. 444.

59.
R. Douglas Hurt, “Forestry on the Great Plains, 1902–1904,” Lecture for Kansas State University’s People, Prairies, and Plains, N.E.H. Summer Teachers’ Institute on Environmental History (July-August 1996).

60.
“The President in Iowa,”
New York Times
(April 29, 1903), p. 1.

61.
Address by John F. Lacey before Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs, Waterloo (May 12, 1905). (Transcript.)

62.
David Dary,
The Buffalo Book: The Full Saga of the American Animal
(Chicago, Ill.: Swallow, 1974), pp. 233–236.

63.
“President Roosevelt Reaches St. Louis,”
New York Times
(April 30, 1903), p. 3.

64.
“Secretary Hitchcock Now Faces Charges,”
New York Times
(August 20, 1903), p. 1.

65.
Henry S. Brown, “Punishing the Landlooters,”
Outlook
(February 23, 1907).

66.
“President’s Train Ready,”
New York Times
(April 1, 1903), p. 8.

67.
Barbara Kerley, “Josiah, the White House Badger,”
Highlights
(April 2006), pp. 32–35.

68.
“The President’s Sunday at Sharon Springs, Kansas,”
New York Times
(May 4, 1903), p. 2. Also Sagamore Hill National Historic Site Archive (pet file).

69.
T.R. to children (May 10, 1903), Sagamore Hill Archives, Oyster Bay, N.Y. (Group letter from Del Monte, California.)

70.
“President in Colorado,”
New York Times
(May 5, 1903), p. 9.

71.
“Denver in Readiness,”
Washington Post
(May 4, 1903), p. 1.

72.
Burroughs,
Camping and Tramping With Roosevelt
, p. 53.

73.
“Mr. Roosevelt Tells New Mexico to Grow,”
New York Times
(May 6, 1903), p. 3.

74.
C. G. Turner II,
Petroglyphs of the Glen Canyon Region
(Flagstaff: Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, No. 38). Also see David S. Whitney,
Handbook of Rock Art Research
(Walnut Creek, Calif.: Alta Mira, 2001), pp. 385–386.

75.
Max Frost and Paul A. F. Walter,
The Land of Sunshine: A Handbook of the Resources, Products, Industries, and Climate of New Mexico
(Santa Fe: New Mexican Printing, 1904).

76.
T.R.,
A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open
(New York: Scribner, 1916), p. 1.

77.
“Mr. Roosevelt Sees the Grand Canyon,”
New York Times
(May 7, 1903), p. 2.

78.
Stephen R. Whitney,
A Field Guide to the Grand Canyon
(Seattle, Wash.: Mountains, 1996), p. 1.

79.
T.R.,
A Book-Lover’s Holidays
, p. 8.

80.
“Mr. Roosevelt Sees the Grand Canyon,”
New York Times
(May 7, 1903), p. 2.

81.
John Burroughs,
Locusts and Wild Honey
(Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Osgood, 1879), p. 200.

82.
T.R. quoted in Stephen J. Pyne,
How The Canyon Became Grand: A Short History
(New York: Viking, 1998), p. 38.

83.
David S. Whitney,
A Field Guide to the Grand Canyon
(Seattle, Wash.: Mountaineers, 1996), pp. 13–19.

84.
Rose Houk,
An Introduction to Grand Canyon Ecology
(Grand Canyon, AZ: Grand Canyon Association, 1996), pp. 4–45.

85.
Richard G. Beidleman,
California’s Frontier Naturalists
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), p. 369.

86.
“President Roosevelt in California,”
New York Times
(May 8, 1903), p. 1.

87.
“The Pope to Mr. Roosevelt,”
New York Times
(May 10, 1903), p. 5.

88.
“President Talks of California’s Big Trees,”
New York Times
(May 12, 1903), p. 2.

89.
“Degree Conferred upon President Roosevelt,”
New York Times
(May 15, 1903), p. 1.

90.
“President Talks of California’s Big Trees.”

91.
Ibid.

92.
Burroughs quoted in Worster,
Nature’s Economy,
p. 17.

93.
“America’s Destiny on the Pacific,”
New York Times
(May 14, 1903), p. 1.

94.
Lynn Readicker-Henderson and Ed Readicker-Henderson,
Adventure Guide: Inside Passage and Coastal Alaska,
4th ed. (Edison, N.J.: Hunter, 2002), pp. 55–57.

95.
A. Lincoln, “Roosevelt and Muir at Yosemite,”
Pacific Discovery
Vol. 16 (January–February 1963), pp. 18–22.

96.
Shirley Sargent,
Yosemite’s Famous Guests
(Yosemite, Calif.: Flying Spur, 1970), pp. 18–21.

97.
“How Big Are Big Trees?”
California State Parks
(2008). (Pamphlet produced by the state of California.)

98.
Ted Kerasote, “Roosevelt and Muir,”
Bugle
(Winter 1997), p. 78.

99.
Osborn quoted in Edwin Way Teale (ed.),
The Wilderness World of John Muir
(Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1954), p. 181.

100.
Ted Kerasote, “Roosevelt and Muir,”
Bugle
(Winter 1997), p. 78.

101.
Lincoln, “Roosevelt and Muir at Yosemite.”

102.
Charlie Leidig, “Report of President Roosevelt’s Visit in May, 1903,” Yosemite National Park Archive, Yosemite, Calif.

103.
T.R., “John Muir: An Appreciation,”
Outlook
, Vol. 109 (January 6, 1915), pp. 27–28.

104.
Kerasote, “Roosevelt and Muir.”

105.
Teale (ed.),
The Wilderness World of John Muir
, p. xvii.

106.
T.R.,
An Autobiography
(New York Macmillan, 1913), p. 332–333.

107.
Donald Worster,
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 346.

108.
Ibid.

109.
Lincoln, “Roosevelt and Muir at Yosemite.”