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National Game, Bird, and Fish Protection Association (NGBFPA), 259

National Geographic
, 704, 764, 765, 798

National Geographic Society, 215–16

National Key Deer Refuge, 742

national monuments, 706–7, 751–62, 764–66

map of,
822–23

of 1906, 631–72, 689

see also specific monuments

National Park, The
(Tilden), 461

national parks, 741

map of,
822–23

see also specific parks

National Park Service, U.S., 450, 614, 689, 690, 707, 757, 789

National Wildlife Federation, 741–42

National Wildlife Federation Conservation Hall of Fame, 240

National Wildlife Refuge System, U.S., 15–19, 567, 568
n

National Zoological Park, 282, 521, 589

Native American church movement, 595

Native Americans, 4, 5, 26, 244, 253–58, 280, 564, 588

in Badlands, 150, 155

education of, 373, 765

Garfield’s defense of, 675

genocide of, 199

in Grand Exposition, 100

Grinnell and, 188, 309, 641, 675

as guides, 261

in inauguration parade, 581

racism and, 27, 243

spirit bears of, 35

T.R.’s relations with, 164, 243, 253–55, 627, 641, 765

use of names of, 205

see also
reservations;
specific groups

Natural Bridges National Monument, 762, 764–65, 766

natural history, 352 at Harvard, 102–3

Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
and, 177, 182

Theodore, Sr. and, 2, 41–
42
, 42, 43–44

T.R.’s education in, 22–45, 103, 164, 186

see also
American Museum of Natural History;
specific topics

Natural History
(magazine), 689

Naturalist on the Plateau, The
(Hudson), 383

“Naturalist’s Tropical Laboratory, A” (Roosevelt), 445–46

natural selection, 23, 60, 64, 207, 302, 317, 318, 330, 370, 812

bigness and, 704–5

nature:

Bacon’s views on, 273

Edith’s understanding of, 233

education about, 352–53

Emerson’s views on, 101, 273

Grinnell’s views on, 188–89

healing power of, 8–9, 22, 39–40, 110, 253, 267, 379

Japanese view of, 566

T.R.’s photography of, 189

T.R.’s views of, 8–9, 14, 15, 246, 267, 328, 429, 534–35,556, 605, 680, 763

as U.S. wonder, 15

Nature Magazine,
720

Nature’s Economy
(Worster), 429

Nature’s Metropolis
(Cronon), 129

Navajo, 241, 280, 765

Navajo National Monument, 689

Naval Policy of the Presidents
(pamphlet of quotations), 311

Naval War of 1812, The
(Roosevelt), 149, 181, 311, 414, 724

publication of, 142, 145, 148

reviews of, 145

writing of, 125, 138, 140, 141

Navy, U.S., 310, 371, 384, 397, 448, 534, 638, 651, 737

bird protection and, 738–39

Navy Department, U.S., 653, 739

T.R. in, 294, 297–98, 303, 310–13, 797

Nebraska, 129, 137, 149
n
, 511, 683

Grinnell in, 187–88, 245, 254

reservations in, 226, 254, 255, 628

Nebraska National Forest, 468–69, 519–20

Necker Island, 799

Neel, Harry, 761

Nelson, Ed W., 280

Nelson, Horatio, 298
n

Netherlands, 79, 264

Nevada, 243, 305, 422, 636, 742

water issues in, 342, 422, 575

New Brunswick, moose hunting in, 260–61

“New Conservationism,” 535

Newell, Frederick H., 423, 424, 425

New England, 43, 84, 87, 180, 256, 426–27

see also specific places

New Hampshire, 84, 618–19

New Jersey, 44, 98, 352, 372, 622

Newlands, Francis G., 240, 423–24

Newlands Act (1902), 423–26, 467, 573, 736, 746

New Mexico, 243, 290, 314, 331, 380
n
, 400, 403, 422, 466, 528, 663

bird reservations in, 20

Great Loop tour in, 524–25

national monuments in, 706–7

prehistoric sites in, 414, 520, 524, 616, 644, 647, 756

statehood for, 354n, 635, 649–50

New Orleans, Battle of, 414
n
, 435

New Orleans, La., 414, 695

New Orleans
(steamboat), 695

Newport Mountain, 126–27

Newspaper Rocks Petroglyphs, 646

Newton, Henry, 632–33

New York, N.Y., 4, 11, 181, 623, 761

animal protection in, 48–52

Audubon Park in, 186

bird dishes in, 10

Bowery in, 287, 288

Burroughs in, 217–18, 220, 222–23, 368

club set in, 80–81

Committee on Measurements exhibition in, 287

customs officials in, 226

degradation of waterways of, 219

election of 1886 in, 196

Fellowcraft Club in, 217, 222–23, 368

Hell’s Kitchen in, 217

Lower East Side in, 478

museums in,
see
American Museum of Natural History; Roosevelt Museum of Natural History

police in, 50, 52, 287–89

reform movement in, 142, 150, 165

Roosevelt homes in, 30, 43, 65, 66, 81–82, 125, 138, 147, 166, 202

tenement houses and slums in, 217, 222, 223

T.R.’s political activities in, 177, 196

New York Association for the Protection of Game (NYAPG), 85, 264

New York Audubon Society, 351, 360, 370

New Yorker
, 320
n

New York Harbor, 29–30, 65, 307

New York repopulation plan, 276–77

New York Sportsmen’s Club, 83, 85

New York State, 39–41, 43, 684, 687

deforestation in, 236–37

New York State Fish Commission, 85–86, 88

New York State Fisheries, Game, and Forest Commission, 339, 345, 351, 352, 357, 372, 377, 403

New York State legislature, 284, 307, 353, 372

assembly of, 142–43, 150, 154, 165, 166–67, 168, 185, 190, 225, 731

T.R.’s second annual message to, 356–58

New York Sun
, 167, 177, 229, 373, 528

New York Times
, 17, 44, 51, 52, 83, 109, 153, 167, 244, 289, 292, 333n, 338, 394, 418, 427, 561, 582, 596, 614, 638, 666, 704, 810–11

on Antiquities Act, 689

Benga episode and, 658, 660

boxing in, 121

Bronx Zoo in, 279

on Crater Lake, 455, 462

on elephant, 647–48

on Great Loop tour, 507, 509, 514, 517, 531, 537

on Grinnell,
185
, 186

on Josephine, 325, 332

Merriam’s bear views in, 301, 302

Oklahoma trip in, 601, 605

R.B.R.’s obituary in, 648

trapshooting and, 264

on T.R. in Mississippi, 438

T.R.’s work reviewed in, 183, 228, 266, 621

on Wind Cave, 462

New York Tribune
, 170, 348

New York World
, 163, 310, 322

New York Zoological Society, 276–80, 284, 406, 418, 521, 590, 628, 656–58

Bulletin
of, 657, 658

Department of Tropical Research of, 448

see also
Bronx Zoo

Niagara Falls, 353, 373, 377, 638–39

Nile River, 57–58, 67, 763

Niobrara National Forest, 468–69, 519–20

Nobel Peace Prize, 618, 669–70, 764

Noble, John W., 224–25, 237–40, 245

Nomadic Life
(Jusserand), 432–33

Nordenskiöld, Nils Otto Gustaf, 655

Norris, Edwin C., 772, 776

Norris, Frank, 651

Norris, Thaddeus, 84

North, Frank, 188

North, Luther, 188

North America Conservation Congress, 790

North American Conservation Conference (1909), 804

North American Review
, 318, 330, 505

North Carolina, 428, 572, 667, 758

North Dakota, 6, 134, 149
n
, 152, 273–74, 419, 567–68, 578, 784

birds in, 6, 567, 568, 583–84, 746

Great Loop tour in, 507, 513

T.R.’s campaigning in, 374–75

Northern Pacific lobby (Railroad Gang), 205

Northern Pacific Railroad, 148–55, 165, 209, 244, 259, 271, 293, 516, 588

Northern Securities Company, 575

Northern Trails; Some Studies of Animal Life in the Far North
(Long), 619–20

North Woods (Maine), 110–20,
114
, 161, 209

Norton, C. E., 510

“Notebook on Natural History” (Roosevelt), 54

Notes on Natural History
(Roosevelt), 98

Notes on Some Birds of Oyster Bay, Long Island
(Roosevelt), 108

Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person
(Burroughs), 222

Nuttall, Thomas, 38

Nuttall Ornithological Club, 107, 108, 111

 

Oak Lodge, 488–90

Obama, Barack, 705

Ocala National Forest, 736–37

Odall, Ben, Jr., 332

Ogallala, Nebr., 137, 153

Ogden, Peter Skene, 720

Ohio, 597, 634

Oklahoma, 129, 314, 403, 585–97, 599–612,
599
, 616, 622–30, 663, 675

Abernathy appointed federal marshall of, 621, 622–23

acquisition of, 586–87

buffalo repopulation in, 511, 588, 589, 590, 593, 594, 610–11, 624–28

oil in, 383

reservations in, 226, 241, 585, 587, 591

statehood for, 586, 605, 635, 649–50

wolves in, 308, 581, 585, 589, 594, 600, 601, 604–9,
608
, 620–23, 745

Oklahoma City, Okla., 587, 623

Olympic Elk National Park, 810

Olympic Games, 567

Olympic Mountains, 305–6, 342, 344, 410, 417, 809–10

Olympic National Park, 811

Olympic rainforests, 148, 305, 306, 551, 811

Olympic Range Elk Reserve, 647

Olympus, Mount, 306, 417, 535, 633, 649, 680, 809–11

Omaha, Nebr., 154, 519

O’Neill, Bill, 143

O’Neill, William (Bucky), 330, 671

“On the Little Missouri” (Roosevelt), 308–9

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
(Darwin), 23–24, 25, 73, 97, 102, 182, 370, 383, 555, 641, 812

Theodore, Sr. and, 43

T.R. influenced by, 8, 60, 62, 67, 228, 245, 317, 318, 686

U.S. impact of, 44–45, 245

opossums, 356, 443, 602

Oregon, 425, 738, 744–49 bears in, 680

bird reservations in, 714–18, 721, 744–48

forest reserves in, 421, 676, 678, 778

Great Loop tour in, 548–51

Oregon Audubon Society, 549, 551, 715, 716, 748

Oregon Trail, The
(Parkman), 128,
208
, 228, 264

Organic Act (1897),
see
National Forest Management Act

Organic Act (1916), 450

Organic Act (Foraker Law; 1900), 446

Osborn, Frederick, 94–95, 96, 104

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 8, 278–79, 301, 305, 448, 537, 780, 803

Osgood, Wilfred H., 214–15

O’Shea, Minnie (Mrs. Robert F. Fortescue), 78

Oskaloosa, Iowa, 520–21, 563, 668, 672, 677

Osprey
, 330
n

ostriches, 90, 97, 488

O’Sullivan, Timothy, 74

Otero, Miguel, 524

“Other Animals, The” (London), 781–82

O’Toole, Patricia, 57n

“Our Forest Reservations” (Roosevelt and Grinnell), 242

Our Landed Heritage
(Robbins), 667, 676

Our National Parks
(Muir), 293, 410, 545

Our Vanishing Wildlife
(Hornaday), 5, 9, 283

Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
(Roosevelt), 21, 110, 380, 381, 555, 607, 620–21, 733

Outing,
347, 385

Outing Magazine,
194–95, 206, 708, 709, 713, 733

Outlook,
115, 522, 683, 712, 731, 780, 794, 809

Owens, Uncle Jim, 778

owls, 11, 146, 230, 700, 806

Oxford University, 781, 812, 813

Oyster Bay, N.Y., 96–98, 104, 105, 112, 116, 117, 125, 137, 289, 333–34, 377, 385, 618, 637

birds of, 69–70, 71, 96, 108, 146

Sagamore Hill in,
see
Sagamore Hill

Tranquility in, 69, 91, 108, 149

oysters, 372

 

Pace, Mildred Mastin, 51

Pacific Cable Company, 739, 797
n

Pacific Flyway, 360, 744

Pacific Forest Reserve, 291
n

Pacific Northwest, 290–96, 343, 410

bird reservations in, 714–20, 744–48

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