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The Quiet World_ Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 - Douglas Brinkley [292]

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Arctic Brotherhood, 48–49, 49n, 61

Arctic Dance (Craighead and Kreps), 265

Arctic Dreams (Lopez), 229

Arctic loon (Gavia arctica), 62

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Arctic NWR), 231, 255, 366, 373, 378, 439, 443, 453–71, 479–99

described, 453–54, 454n, 479

established by public land order, 493–95, 493n

hunting issues, 455, 458–60, 466–67

name issues, 454n, 458, 463

oil exploration and mining issues, 456, 460–61, 467–68, 472–73, 472n, 484–85, 490

public opinion in Alaska and, 457–58, 462, 472, 474, 484, 487, 491

statehood issues and, 454, 457, 471–72, 473, 474–77, 486, 495

styles and tactics of defenders of, 454–71, 480–93

Arctic Prairies, The (Seton), 461

Arctic Range

attempts to prevent development of, 359–69

importance of photographs of, 363, 370–71

Matthiessen in, 439–40

Sheenjek expedition to, 373–76, 380–86

Arctic Village (Marshall), 244–45, 247–50, 254, 367

Arctic Wild (L. Crisler), 350–51, 353, 445–47, 448, 451

Arnold, Hap, 338

Arrhenius, Svante, 1

Asaiah, Brother, 417, 419–21, 425n

Ascent of Denali, The (Stuck), 133

Atlantic Monthly, 435

Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), 156–57

atomic bomb testing. See Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

Jones and, 433–34

Project Chariot and, 403–6, 424

Atwood, Mike, 476

Audubon, 459

Audubon, John James, 88, 113, 193

Audubon, John Woodhouse, 438

Audubon Plumage Law (1910), 156

Audubon Society, 41, 88, 227

Auk, 132

aurora borealis, 267

Austin, Mary Hunter, 450

Autobiography, An (Adams), 324, 328, 330

Autobiography, An (Roosevelt), 158n

Autobiography of a Curmudgeon (Ickes), 120

Avery Island, Louisiana, 157


Bade, William F., 178

Baden-Powell, Robert, 101

Bailey, Florence Merriam, 287

Bailey, Vernon, 287

bald eagle, 224–30, 292n

Bald Eagle Protection Act, 230

Baldwin, Roger, 227

Ball, Witt, 3

Ballinger, Richard

feud with Pinchot over development of Alaska, 75–80, 110, 314

after Pinchot’s firing, 82

Taft appoints as secretary of the interior, 74–75

Bambi: A Life in the Woods (film), 347–48, 356

Barefooters, 417–21, 424

Barnette, E. T., 265

Bartlett, E. L. “Bob,” 476, 477, 489, 490–91

Bartsch, Paul, 88

Basho, 135

Bass, Rick, 456

Bates, Claude. See Asaiah, Brother

Baxter State Park, 146

Beach, Rex, 34–35

Bear Glacier, Kent’s paintings of, 186–88

Beard, Daniel, 101–2, 146

bears, 123–24, 160–61, 210, 281–82

beat generation, in Alaska, 415–21. See also Ginsberg, Allen; Kerouac, Jack

Beebe, Frank, 391

Beebe, William, 204

Bella Bellas, 31

Bellows, George, 188

Benchley, Robert, 198

Benedict, Ruth, 250

Berg, Andrew, 129

Bergere, Estella, 214

Bering Sea, 14–15, 26–27, 30

Bering Strait Land Bridge National Preserve, 27, 33

“Berry Feast, A” (Snyder), 392, 402, 407

Bierstadt, Albert, 185–86

Big Burn, The (Eagan), 73

Big Sur (Kerouac), 424

bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), 164

“Billy Possums,” 100–101

Bird, Isabella, 450

birds, 28, 36, 132, 151

bird-banding movement, 88

Duck Stamp Act and, 317–18

Hornaday on loss of species, 149

refuges and reservations for, 52, 62–64, 158–59, 173, 214

T. Roosevelt and, 62–64, 87–88, 156–58

bison, 151

black bear (Ursus americanus), 161

black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia), 197

black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), 88

Black Mountain, 12

black turnstones (Arenaria melanocephala), 63

Blatchley, Willis Stanley, 106–7

blue bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus), 161

Bob Marshall Wilderness, 262, 262n

Bogoslof Island, 159

Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open, A (Roosevelt), 165, 173

Book of the American Woodcock, The (Sheldon), 209

Boone and Crocket Club, 77, 102, 158, 459

brown bears and, 156

data collection on Alaska’s game animals, 176–77

Hornaday and, 95–96, 150

membership of, 210

Mount McKinley National Park and, 140, 142, 143

Sheldon and, 129, 132

T. Roosevelt and, 39, 41, 205

Borglum, Gutzon, 222

Boy Scouts of America, 101–3, 144

Brady, John G., 42–44, 48, 57

Branson, Jim, 439

Breaking New Ground (Pinchot), 84, 158

Brewer, William, 16

Brinton, Christian, Kent’s letter to, 196

bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis),

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