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* Quotations from this book have been checked against transcripts of Butt’s original letters, preserved in the Marble Library of Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
* There is an alternative collection, The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, National Edition, 20 vols. (New York, 1926). It is almost identical in content with the Memorial Edition but is arranged differently. For a brief survey of the Memorial Edition, see Wagenknecht, The Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt, 345.
NOTES
The names of Roosevelt family members are abbreviated thus in the Notes:
TR Theodore Roosevelt
EKR Edith Kermit Roosevelt
ARL Alice Roosevelt Longworth
TR. Jr. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (“Ted”)
EBR Eleanor Butler Roosevelt (Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.)
KR Kermit Roosevelt
ERD Ethel Roosevelt Derby
ABR Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt (“Archie”)
QR Quentin Roosevelt
Two other monograms are used: WHT for William Howard Taft, and WW for Woodrow Wilson. Abbreviations denoting collections and repositories are listed above in Archives.
Contemporary (2010) dollar equivalents occasionally appear in parentheses after figures cited for TR’s lifetime. Unless otherwise indicated, these equivalents are taken from the annual CPI/GDP deflator indices posted on Measuring Worth (http://www.measuringworth.com/).
PROLOGUE
Chronological Note: On 23 Mar. 1909, twelve days after handing over the presidency to WHT, TR sailed from Hoboken, N.J., on the SS Hamburg. He used his hat to wigwag, in expert semaphore, “Goodbye and good luck.” Arriving in Naples on 4 Apr., he changed to another German steamship and sailed the following day via the Suez Canal to Mombasa. Disembarking there on 21 Apr., he boarded a special upland train at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, 22 Apr.
1 Sitting above the cowcatcher This account of TR’s journey to the interior of British East Africa (later Kenya) is based on “Through the Pleistocene,” the first chapter of his book African Game Trails (1910), cited hereafter as vol. 5 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Memorial Edition (New York, 1923–26). Other documentary details come from reports in the East African Standard, 24 Apr. 1909; The Leader of British East Africa, 7 Aug. 1909; and Uganda Railway, British East Africa, a glossy booklet sent by TR to his publisher in 1909 (SCR). Minor descriptive touches derive from the author’s own native background in Kenya.
2 a “Royal” grade East African Standard, 24 Apr. 1909. TR’s great rifle, now privately owned, is illustrated and described in R. L. Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt Hunter-Conservationist, Boone and Crockett Club special edition, Missoula, Mont., 2009, 174–77. This book is an excellent pictorial record of TR’s expeditions.
3 It contrasts with See TR’s essay “The Pigskin Library,” TR, Works, 14.463ff. Forty-six surviving volumes are preserved in TRC, along with the aluminum valise. Matched against “the original list” of titles compiled by TR himself, they project a total of 73 volumes. For the