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56 Although he held no brief TR, Works, 4.28.
57 Roosevelt’s attitude Hagedorn, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands, 355; Morris, The Rise of TR, 304–5, 466–67. The most comprehensive survey of TR’s prepresidential Indian policies is that of Dyer, TR and the Idea of Race, 70–83.
58 As President See Lewis L. Gould, The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (Lawrence, Kan., 1991), 207–9. But see also McGerr, A Fierce Discontent, 205–9.
59 He had protected Natalie Curtis, The Indians’ Book (New York, 1907), 476. Natalie Curtis, later Burlin (1875–1921), was related to the great Western photographer Edward S. Curtis, a family friend of the Roosevelts. This connection helped smooth her introduction to TR in 1903. See Natalie Curtis, “Mr. Roosevelt and Indian Music: A Personal Reminiscence,” The Outlook, 5 Mar. 1919, and TR, Letters, 3.523. Her pioneering musicology, using cylinder recordings, was taken seriously in Europe, where composers such as Béla Bartók were conducting similar researches. Ferruccio Busoni’s Red Indian Fantasy for piano and orchestra (1915) was based on themes from The Indians’ Book. A biographical website devoted to Miss Curtis is available at http://www.nataliecurtis.org/.
60 “These songs cast” Reproduced in facsimile in Curtis, The Indians’ Book.
61 He talked to her TR, Works, 4.41.
62 Dawn, beautiful dawn Ibid., 4.44.
63 Roosevelt decided Ibid., 4.42. TR also wrote that Kayenta “would be an excellent place for a summer school of archeology and ethnology.” Ibid., 38–39.
64 At mid-morning TR, Works, 4.47; Natalie Curtis, “Theodore Roosevelt in Hopi-Land,” The Outlook, 17 Sept. 1919. The following anecdote, with quotations, is taken entirely from this source.
65 It was Natalie Curtis Miss Curtis’s embarrassment was compounded when she found that the good-looking young “cowboy” who had helped her milk the gasoline from a parked car was none other than Archie. Curtis, “Theodore Roosevelt in Hopi-Land.”
66 Roosevelt then gave himself Except where otherwise indicated, the following account of TR’s stay in Walpi is based on his essay “The Hopi Snake-Dance,” in TR, Works, 4.48–72.
67 On Wednesday morning Curtis, “Theodore Roosevelt in Hopi-Land.”
68 Roosevelt listened and memorized In her memoir of TR’s visit, Miss Curtis remarked on the “impersonality” with which he absorbed what she had to tell him. This, plus the “electric snap” of his comprehension and the accuracy of his memory, gave him “an astonishing command of data in subjects that no one would imagine he could know … without years of study.”
69 At dawn the following day Curtis, “Theodore Roosevelt in Hopi-Land”; TR, Works, 4.63–64.
70 privately wishing TR, Works, 4.64.
71 When each priest Ibid., 4.65–68.
72 At five o’clock “Hopi Indians Dance for TR [at Walpi, Ariz.] 1913,” a film available online from the Library of Congress at http://memory.loc.gov/, shows TR watching this event with a woman who may be Natalie Curtis.
73 “If I don’t write” Curtis, “Theodore Roosevelt in Hopi-Land.”
74 “I can never afford” Ibid. Miss Curtis, writing in 1919, misremembered her own and TR’s schedule, but she was specific in describing the editorial session she had with him before he left Walpi. Even for a writer of his promptitude, completing such a lengthy manuscript so soon was a remarkable feat. He may have already written the parts of it that covered the events of 19 and 20 Aug.
75 The Colonel returned TR arrived back in New York on 26 Aug. 1913. His three Arizona articles were published in The Outlook on 4, 11, and 18 Oct. 1913.
76 He was overjoyed EKR was slightly piqued not to have been consulted about TR’s proposed expedition until it was a fait accompli. She wrote KR from Europe to complain, “In his letters to me he preserves a sphinx like silence and except for the fact that he sails on October 4th I know nothing of his plans.” 15 July 1913 (KRP).
77 One of her favorite quotations Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 397. EKR was probably thinking of the passage in Boccaccio’s version of the story,