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34 “Thou Shalt Not” TR, Letters, 7.739.
35 He was sufficiently alarmed EKR to ERD, 11 May 1913 (ERDP); TR, Letters, 7.729. “For the first time,” Edith wrote TR’s sister Bamie, “He begins to wish his hand was on the helm.” (12 May 1913 [TRC].) TR’s attitude to the California-Japan crisis of 1913 is spelled out in TR, Letters, 7.720–22 and 727–31. The Wilson administration was itself sufficiently concerned about the Pacific threat to devote a cabinet debate to it on 16 May. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson, 301.
36 Like David Livingstone The Victorian era’s saintly missionary converted only one African, who subsequently reverted to paganism. Tim Jeal, Livingstone (New York, 1973), 80–81.
37 “go up the Paraguay” TR, Works, 6.3; TR, Letters, 7.741.
38 his essay on faith See above, 154–57.
39 There was a certain TR, Letters, 7.741; See also John Augustine Zahm, Through South America’s Southland: With an Account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America (New York, 1916), 4–9; TR, Works, 6.4.
40 Chapman suggested Frank Chapman to Henry Fairfield Osborn, 24 June 1913 (AMNH); National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 37.387–98, 40.320.
41 Roosevelt reviewed TR to Frank Chapman, 30 July 1913 (AMNH); TR, Works, 6.ix–x, 5–6. Cherrie had given help to opponents of the Venezuelan dictator Cipriano Castro, immortalized by TR as “that unspeakably villainous little monkey.”
42 he was recruited TR, Works, 6.5. Miller was twenty-six. TR offered to pay the traveling expenses of both naturalists, on condition that they would publish nothing competitive with his own memoir of the expedition. The museum agreed to provide scientific equipment and take care of the transportation of specimens. TR to Henry Fairfield Osborn, 20 July 1913 (AMNH).
43 Anthony Fiala, a Zahm, Through South America’s Southland, 11; Candice Millard, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey (New York, 2005), 33–34; TR to Lauro Müller, 14 Oct. 1913 (TRP); Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 296–97; TR to KR, 30 June 1913, ts. (TRC).
44 graduated at last TR had attended ABR’s commencement in Andover on 13 June 1913.
45 Two days later The chronology of TR’s movements from 12 July–22 Aug. 1913 in TR, Letters, 8.1481 is inaccurate. The correct sequence of night stops is July 12–14: El Tovar; 15: Phantom Ranch; 16–31: Kaibab Plateau; Aug. 1: House Rock Valley; 2–3: Lees Ferry; 4: Painted Desert; 5–6: Tuba; 7: camp; 8: Marsh Pass; 9: Kayenta; 10: Bubbling Spring Valley; 11: Navajo Mountain; 12: Rainbow Bridge, Utah; 13–14: camp; 15–16: Kayenta; 17–18: camp; 19–20: Walpi; 21: Ganado; 22: Gallup, N.M.
46 Moonlit and mysterious The following account of TR’s vacation in Arizona is based on his articles “A Cougar Hunt on the Rim of the Grand Canyon,” “Across the Navajo Desert,” and “The Hopi Snake Dance,” The Outlook, 4, 11, and 18 Oct. 1913. They are cited as reprinted in TR, Works, 4. Supplementary details and chronology from Nicholas Roosevelt, TR, 110ff.
47 Leave it as See Morris, Theodore Rex, 225–26.
48 “He still has” Nicholas Roosevelt, TR, 117.
49 Roosevelt indulged in TR, Works, 4.22. A lookout southeast of Vista Encantada was dedicated by the National Park Service in 1990 as “Roosevelt Point.”
50 The soil was so arid It is a conjecture that the future author of “The Waste Land” may have read TR’s article “Across the Navajo Desert” in The Outlook that fall, before moving to England in the spring of 1914.
51 Roosevelt was reminded TR, Works, 4.26, quoting Joaquin Miller, Song of the Sierras (Boston, 1871), xii.
52 Kayenta was TR, Works, 4.31, 36. See Elizabeth Compton Hegemann, Navaho Trading Days (Albuquerque, 1963), 224ff., for a photographic memoir of the Wetherills and the entire region TR traversed in 1913.
53 On 10 August Nicholas Roosevelt, TR, 120; TR, Works, 4.37.
54 He noted the next TR, Works, 4.38.
55 proposals to cut up and sell Dana and Mary R.