The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (162 page)

Connecticut Audubon Society, 304
n
, 709, 711

Connecticut River, 87–88

Conrad, David E., 472

Conrad, Joseph, 607

Conrad, Rebecca, 646, 647

Conservation
, 734, 735

conservation, conservation movement:

democracy and, vii, 20, 357

global, 763, 764, 790, 804

interstate cooperation and, 773

market hunting and, 15

modern, launching of, 5, 13–21, 187

as moral imperative, 20, 761

pre-Civil War, 3–5

Roosevelt Doctrine of, 692, 715

T.R. as visionary in, 19–21, 245–47, 689

T.R.’s letter to Wilson as statement on, 680–81

see also specific topics

Conservation Biology
, 357

conservationist, coining of term, 5–6

conservationist consciousness, 689

Cooke, W. W., 214

Cooke City, Mont., 248, 249, 269, 270

Coolidge, Calvin, 444, 553, 811

Coolidge, W. W., 121

Cooper, James Fenimore, 27, 40–41, 464, 696

Cooper, John Milton, Jr., 226–27

Cooper, Peter, 50
n

Copalis Rock, 714, 718–21

coral reefs, 724, 726–27, 797, 798

Corliss, George, 100

cormorants,
711
, 727,
744
double-crested, 320, 497–98

Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 586, 588

Coronado National Forest, 399

corporations, 383–84, 408–9, 680, 760, 786

regulation of, 684

taxing of, 354–55

Corps of Engineers, U.S., 74, 188

Corwin, Charles A., 800

Cosmos Club, 216, 309, 423, 548, 795

Merriam-Roosevelt debate at, 302–3, 305, 377, 379

cotton, 433

Coues, Elliott, 99, 100, 113, 125, 138, 225, 228, 247

background of, 95–96

death of, 225

T.R.’s competition with, 225

T.R.’s correspondence with, 143, 144

“Cougar, The” (Whitney), 286

cougars,
see
mountain lions

Country Life Commission, 783–85, 787

“Coursing the Prongbuck” (Roosevelt), 263

cowboys, 148, 153–54, 156, 233, 241, 244, 251, 253, 258, 309, 508, 629, 641

chapping of, 682

Collier as, 335–36

Oklahoma, 606

songs of, 681, 812–13

Texas, 435–36, 592, 665

T.R as, 163–64, 168, 315, 383, 435, 605–6, 610

in
Virginian
, 463–67

Cowles, Anna Roosevelt (Bamie), 43, 52,
56
, 109, 165, 202, 230

Alice left with, 168

Edith’s friendship with, 190

home of, 177

T.R.’s correspondence with, 63–64, 101, 130, 141, 170, 181, 191, 193, 196, 224, 273

T.R.’s living quarters prepared by, 101

Cowles, William Sheffield, 312

cows, cattle, 37, 50, 82, 280, 382, 598, 676, 737

in Badlands, 150, 153, 162, 172, 197–200

bison crossed with (catalo), 413

in Dakota Territory, 120

drives of, 137, 153, 175–76

longhorn, 629

slaughtering of, 47, 137

T.R.’s investment in, 162, 165, 168, 170, 197, 198, 315

coyotes, 301, 302, 502, 589, 604

see also
wolves, gray

crabs, land, 328–29, 330, 331

Crack in the Edge of the World, A
(Winchester), 637

Craig, William, 427

Crandall, Roy, 719–20

Crane, Stephen, 322, 328

Crary, Charlie, 460–61

Crater Lake, 15, 19, 451–60, 544, 548

Crater Lake National Park,
453
, 454–60, 463, 468, 549, 749

crayfish, 216

creationism, 44, 246, 299

Crocker, F.C., 262

Crockett, Davy, 169, 199, 241, 256, 394, 698

Crockett Almanac,
27

crocodile, Nile, 734

Cromwell, Oliver, 355

Cronon, William, 129

Crook, General, 171

Cropsey, Jasper, 33

crossbills, 94–95, 358

Cross-Timbers region, 587–88 610

Crow, 270, 628, 632, 639, 687

Crowded Hour Reserves, 777–79, 787

crows, 31, 187

Cuba, 12, 348, 359, 374, 384

self-determination for, 613

Spanish-American War and, 18, 310–12, 314, 315, 321–36, 378, 460

Culebra Island, 447–48

Cunninghame, R. J., 762

“Curiosities of Louisiana Sea Islands” (Job), 713

curlews, 9, 10

Curtis, Mr., 560

Custer, Elizabeth, 207, 218–8

Custer, George Armstrong, 74, 152, 188, 207, 217, 639

Custer’s Trail, 156

Cuthbert Rookery, 497

Cutler, Arthur, 68, 96, 167 Maine and, 111, 112, 117, 118

Cutright, Paul Russell, 22, 425, 804

Cuvier, Georges, 44

Cyclone, the (trap), 215

Czolgosz, Leon, 391

Dakota (duckbilled hadrosaur), 149

Dakota Territory, 4, 134, 137, 148, 249

“grand holiday” in, 232–33

reservations in, 226, 253–54, 255

T.R. in, 6, 27–28, 120, 152–65, 167–81, 211, 232–33, 244–45, 253–54, 289

see also specific places

Dallas, Tex., 597

Dalton, Kathleen, 16, 227

dams, 376, 422–25, 535, 544, 650, 663, 693, 776

Daniels, Ben, 379, 623

Darimont, Chris, 704

Darling, Jay Norwood (Ding), 740–43, 749

Darwin, Charles, 23–26, 67
n
, 68, 72, 73, 91, 97, 100, 101–3, 245, 257, 318, 319, 322, 369–70, 416, 554, 555, 656, 704, 777, 811–12

death of, 368

in Galápagos, 7, 23, 430

Hall compared with, 349

pain as concern of, 46

survival of the fittest and, 23, 47

T.R. compared with, 62–63, 73

T.R. influenced by, 8, 23–24, 30, 33,
34
, 47, 60–64, 73, 429, 430

see also specific books

Darwin, Erasmus, 46, 63

Darwin, Robert, 46, 63

Darwinism, 28, 43–46, 140, 188, 216, 416, 640

American Museum of Natural History and, 44–45

Benga episode and, 657,
659
, 660, 661

Burroughs and, 319, 369, 370

Darling’s interest in, 740

Hall’s views on, 349

Merriam and, 299, 301

moral impact of, 369, 383

Native Americans and, 275

Reid’s anticipation of, 27

social, 255, 317–19, 323, 331, 661

T.R.’s belief in, 8, 46, 182, 184, 231, 245–47, 249, 283, 302, 317–19, 331, 350–51, 369, 374, 383, 388–89, 429–30, 474, 783, 812, 813

Winning of the West
and, 228

zoos and, 276, 282, 283

“Darwinist Frontier, The” (Sharp), 331

Dary, David, 153

Daskam, Josephine Dodge, 40

Davidson, James O., 772

Davis, Henry G., 574

Davis, Jefferson, 701

Davis, Richard Harding, 327

Deadwood, S.Dak., 253, 255, 403

Dean, Anona Birdsong, 609–10

Dean, Cornelia, 704

Debs, Eugene V., 576, 635

Deep Red Creek, 599, 601–2

deer, 33–34, 47, 165, 195, 382, 742

Adirondack, 307, 308

black-tailed, 280, 374, 381

hunting of, 82–83, 213, 438, 504

mule, 160, 230, 302, 411, 420–21

slaughter of, 189

white-tailed, 72, 150, 157, 172, 183, 185, 205, 230, 232, 302, 390, 397, 609, 624

Deer Family, The
(Roosevelt, Van Dyke, Elliot, and Stone), 416–20, 466, 620

deforestation, 236–40, 341, 342, 343, 359, 376, 577, 667, 684

global, 790

in Puerto Rico, 447

Delaware, 738

DeLeon, Daniel, 635

democracy, 177, 255, 350, 426

conservation and, vii, 20, 357

national parks and, 20, 517

Puerto Rico and, 446

Democratic National Committee, 79

Democrats, 80, 143, 268, 667, 784, 795

Southern, 432, 701

in Texas, 585

see also specific people and elections

Demoulins, Edmond, 317

Dennett, Fred, 662

Dennis, William C., 653

Denver, Colo., 259, 523–24, 765

Descartes, René, 47

Descent of Man, The
(Darwin), 47, 60, 322, 369, 429, 555, 657

Desert of the Little Colorado, 215

Des Moines Register and Leader
, 740–41

Des Moines River, 132, 133n, 270, 521

Devils Lake, 567, 568, 583

Devils Tower, 15, 403, 631–35,
632
, 642, 648, 661–62

Devils Tower National Monument, 661–62, 689

Dewey, George, 311, 312

diaries of Roosevelt, 33–34, 35–41, 53–58, 117

Adirondack, 39–41, 70–73, 106

Badlands in, 158, 179

Bighorns, 172

Cuba, 334

Edith in, 191

Europe in, 35–38, 54, 55, 102, 141

father’s death in, 109

Garfield shooting in, 140

Harvard in, 125

Middle East, 55–58, 61–62

Midwest, 128–29, 130, 133, 135, 136

Oyster Bay, 69, 95, 108

revival of, 167

Spanish-American War, 321, 330

waning of, 139

wife Alice in, 126, 137, 138, 191

Dickens, Charles, 54, 218

Dickinson, Emily, 133

Dickinson, N.Dak., 192–94

Dillard, Annie, vii, 19

dinosaurs, 44, 61, 149, 187

Dismal River National Forest, 468–69, 519–20

District Investigative Committee of the Forest Service, 779

Ditmars, Raymond L., 279, 603, 731–33, 737

Dix, John A., 50n

Dodge, Ira, 234

Dodge, Richard Irving, 380, 632

Dodge, William E., Jr., 44

dogs, 37, 38, 46, 47, 68n, 82, 249, 506, 781

Cuba, 325–26,
326
, 333, 561

hunting, 133, 135, 307, 438–39, 502–3, 604–7, 622, 698, 699

Jack (terrier), 558, 561, 615

Pete (bull terrier), 561

progress of, 318–19

of Rough Riders, 325–26,
326
, 333

Skip (terrier), 615, 616,
616
, 692

stray,
46
, 48

at White House, 558, 561,
562
, 615, 616

wild, 34, 38

Domebo Canyon, 585

Dommerich, Clara, 365

Dommerich, L. F., 364–65

Donahue, Jesse, 257

Donaldson, Frank, 378–79

donkeys, 37–38, 46, 48

Dooley, Mr., 375

Doughty, Robin, 10

Douglass, Frederick, 100, 247

doves, 97, 359, 686

Dow, Wilmot, 112–14,
114
, 116, 120

in Dakota Territory, 120, 170, 172, 179, 191, 193

T.R.’s partnership offer to, 169

Dowd, Maureen, 703

Drayton, J. Coleman, 202

Dreiser, Theodore, 129

Dresden, 37, 60,
62
, 63, 102, 477, 812

Driesch, Hans, 812

drover, use of word, 153

drugs, 594–95, 623

Drum Taps
(Whitman), 221–22

Dry Tortugas, 12

Dry Tortugas Reservation, 18

DuBois, Charles L., 13, 16, 491

ducks, 139, 307, 484, 548, 583

Labrador, 9, 320, 362

Duluth, Minn., 73, 129, 249

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 373

Dutcher, William, 8, 12, 362–66, 369, 551, 714, 738, 739, 743, 744, 800

Pelican Island and, 13–14, 490–94, 495

Dutton, Clarence E., 454, 455, 490–93, 526

Eads, James B., 693

eagles, 187

bald, 242, 332–33

golden, 233, 325,
326
, 332–33

Eagle Watchers Society, 325

Earp, Wyatt, 354, 466, 623

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The
(Marsh), 340

earthquakes, 637–38, 642, 651–52, 690, 691

Eastern Flyway, 96

East Park, 800–801

East River, 48, 51–52, 84

East Timbalier Island, 18, 712–13

Eaton, Howard, 588

ecology, 12, 429, 447

Edge of the Sea, The
(Carson), 724–25

Edison, Thomas, 219, 258, 620

Edith Kermit Roosevelt
(S. J. Morris), 190

Edmonston, John, 62–63

education, 317, 350, 554

of Native Americans, 373, 765

about nature, 352–53

segregation in, 373

see also specific universities

eels, 90–91

egrets, 8, 10, 13, 31, 497, 728, 734

plumes of, 496, 727

snowy, 10, 11, 320

Egypt, 53, 55–58,
56
, 59, 146, 780

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 444, 535, 802, 811

elections:

of 1832, 3

of 1876, 100

of 1880, 138

of 1884, 167, 168, 170, 175, 177–78