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The Quiet World_ Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879-1960 - Douglas Brinkley [303]

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Arctic NWR and, 455–56, 458, 459, 466, 468, 470, 487

Taylor (Brady) glacier, 11

Taylor Grazing Act (1934), 315

Teapot Dome scandal, 218

Teller, Edward, 403–5

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled (Stuck), 133

Thayer, Abbot H., 111

Theodore Roosevelt: A Life (Miller), 80

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, 205

Thomas, Ashton, 264, 269, 271, 274

Thomson, John, 488

Thoreau, Henry David, 146, 303, 321, 397

Through the Brazilian Wilderness (Roosevelt), 173

tidewater glaciers, 19

Tillion, Clem, 419

timber companies. See forest preservation; Weyerhaeuser Lumber

Times Herald, 321

Tlingit, 26, 33, 36, 81, 138

missionary work with, 43

Muir made honorary chief by, 12

as Muir’s guides, 6–7, 10–11, 12

totem poles of, 7

T. Roosevelt and land rights of, 53

Young’s missionary work with, 5, 7–8, 10

Tongass National Forest

Alaskans’ opinion of, 60, 111

protection as cause in election of 1910, 107

size of, 60

T. Roosevelt and creation of, 58–62

threatened by exploitation, 206

threatened during Taft administration, 72, 75–76, 79, 81, 91–92, 104

Wilson and, 162

World War II and, 294, 322

Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest (Durbin), 59

Top of the Continent (Laurence), 186

totem poles, 7, 30, 54, 315–16

tourism, 18, 19–20, 47, 143–44, 484–485, 488

Town and the City, The (Kerouac), 400

Trail of the Gold Seekers, The (Garland), 90

Trailside (Adams), 334

Travels in Alaska (Muir), 12, 53, 169–70, 264

Tree Mountain, 12

trees, legal standing and, 302, 305–7

tree sparrow (Spizella arborea), 132

Tree Where Man Was Born, The (Matthiessen), 443

Tremblay, Ray, 439

True Life Adventure: The Olympic Elk (Crisler), 446

Truman, Harry S., 319–20, 322

trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator), 132–33

Trumpeter Swan Society, 132

Trumpet of the Swan, The (White), 133

Tsimshian people, 26, 33

Tudor, Ralph, 383

Tuxedni Federal Bird Reservation, 63–64, 158–59

Two in the Far North (Murie), 131, 254, 277, 360, 382, 384


Udall, Stewart, 492, 494, 497, 499

Umnak Island, 158

Unalakleet experimental laboratory, 209

Unalaska Island, 158

Union Oil spill, 304–5

United States Exploring Expedition, 54

United States v. Causby, 482

U.S. Biological Survey, 39, 40, 51, 63, 89, 98, 122, 156, 158, 160, 229, 276–77, 287

O. Murie and, 273–79

Sheldon and, 122–23, 127–37

U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, 98, 151, 156, 224

U.S. Bureau of Mines, 98

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 222

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 158, 290, 292

Arctic NWR and, 463, 467

Arctic Range and, 367–68

Duck Stamp Act and, 318

foxes and, 198

Jones and, 426, 430–34

U.S. Forest Service

brushfires and, 138

Depression-era cutbacks, 243

Leopold joins, 213–14

Snyder as lookout with, 390–92, 393–99

T. Roosevelt and, 56–62

Taft and, 73–74, 82–83, 89, 107–8

U.S. Forest Service Bulletin, 238, 239

U.S. Geological Survey, 239, 247

U.S. Signal Corps, 104

U.S. Treasury Department, Document No. 429, 15


Valdez, Alaska, 79, 104–5, 110

Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, 115, 488–89

Vancouver, George, 8–9

Vandegraft, Douglas L., 406

“Vanishing American Hobo, The” (Kerouac), 422

Van Name, Willard, 226–27

Venta, Krishna, 417–19, 420

Vermont, 126, 155–56, 199, 256

Viereck, Les, 488

Viking Press colophon, 200

Visions of Denali (Laurence), 186

volcanoes, 145

Vonnegut, Kurt, 303

Voyaging (Kent), 199

Vreeland, Frederick K., 143–48, 178, 179–83, 316–17

Vreeland Glacier, 147


Wainwright, John, 410

Walcott, Frederic, 281–82

Walden (Thoreau), 321, 397

Walker, Ernest, 213–14

Walker, Tom, 122

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 113

Wallace, Henry C., 80, 218

Wall Street Journal, 47–48

walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), 29–30, 46, 154–55

Walsh, Thomas, 166

Walt Disney Productions. See Disney, Walt

Walts, Vernon, 246

wapiti, 122

War Against the Seals, The (Busch), 97–98

Washington, University of, 48

Washington Post, 321

Wayburn, Edgar, 59

Webster, Daniel, 437

Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, frontier defined in, 140

Weeks Law, 174

Weeks-McLean Bill, 151

Weismann, August, 113

Welch, Joseph, 377

western hemlock (Tsuga

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