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43. Brian Fagan, “Where We Found a Whale”: A History of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, 2008), pp. 118–122.

44. Frederick K. Vreeland to E. A. Preble, November 29, 1921, Smithsonian Institution, Archives Record Unit 7176, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

45. John Branson (ed.), Lake Clark–Iliamna, Alaska 1921: Travel Diary of Colonel A. J. Macnab (Anchorage: Alaska Natural History Association, 1996). (Booklet reprint.)

46. Ibid., p. 8.

47. Ibid., p. 27.

48. Colonel A. J. Macnab Diaries, August 18 and August 20, quoted in Branson, Lake Clark–Iliamna, Alaska 1921.

49. Branson, Lake Clark–Iliamna, Alaska 1921, p. 29. Special thanks to Branson for helping me get the expedition straight.

1. Rockwell Kent, Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska (New York: Putnam-Knickerbocker, 1920), p. 191.

2. Ibid., p. 6.

3. Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams (New York: Vintage, 2001), pp. 390–391.

4. Kent, Wilderness, p. 24.

5. Rockwell Kent, Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1996), p. xxxii. (From Los Angeles, CA: Wilderness, 1970.) Henceforth cited as Wesleyan University Press edition.

6. Kesler E. Woodward (ed.), Painting in the North: Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum of History and Art (Anchorage, AK: Anchorage Museum of History and Art, 1993). (From a plaque describing Sydney M. Laurence’s Mount McKinley, oil on canvas, 1929.)

7. Linda Cook and Frank Norris, A Stern and Rock-Bound Coast (Anchorage, AK: National Park Service, Kenai Fjords National Park 1998); Doug Capra, letter to Douglas Brinkley, May 29, 2010.

8. Grace Glueck, “Celebrating an Artist’s Spiritual Searches and Realist Findings,” New York Times, August 26, 2005.

9. Judith H. Dabrzynski, “Adirondack Vistas in the Artist’s Eye and the Visitor’s,” New York Times, July 23, 1999.

10. Rockwell Kent, It’s Me, O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955), p. 204.

11. Constance Martin, Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent (Chesterfield, MA: Chameleon, 2000), p. 23.

12. Rockwell Kent, N by E (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966), p. xvi.

13. Kent, It’s Me, O Lord, p. 121.

14. Edward Hoagland, “Foreword,” in Kent, N by E, pp. xvi–xvii.

15. “Rockwell Kent’s Artistic Discovery of Alaska,” Current Opinion, Vol. 67 (1919), p. 52.

16. Kent, It’s Me, O Lord, p. 328.

17. Kent, Wilderness, p. 27.

18. Barry Lopez, Winter Count (New York: Vintage, 1999), p. 94.

19. “Historic Harrington Cabin” (Homer, AK: Homer Foundation, Pratt Museum, 2001). (Brochure.)

20. Kent, Wilderness, p. xi.

21. Bill Streever, Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places (New York: Little, Brown, 2009).

22. Martin, Distant Shores, p. 26.

23. Kent, Wilderness (Wesleyan University Press edition), p. xx.

24. Rockwell Kent to Christian Brinton, winter 1919, Rockwell Kent Papers, Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

25. Kent, Wilderness, p. 161.

26. Jenks Cameron, The Bureau of Biological Survey (New York: Arno, 1974), pp. 124–127.

27. Doug Capra, “Introduction,” in Kent, Wilderness, p. xi. (Wesleyan University Press edition.)

28. Martha Gruening, “The Freedom of Wilderness,” Freeman (April 28, 1920), pp. 165–166.

29. Kent, Wilderness, p. 217.

30. Grace Glueck, “Cast into the Wilderness by Choice, He Found a Friend in the Landscape,” New York Times, August 18, 2000.

31. Hoagland, “Foreword,” in Kent, N by E, p. viii.

32. Garnett McCoy, “The Rockwell Kent Papers,” Archives of American Art Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1 (January 1972), p. 6.

33. Scott R. Ferris, “Introduction,” in Rockwell Kent, Salamina (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003), p. xxi.

34. Kent, It’s Me, O Lord, p. 328.

35. Gail Levin, Twentieth-Century American Painting: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (New York: Sotheby’s, 1987), p. 60.

36. Gary Snyder, “Raven’s Beak River at the End,” in Mountains and Rivers Without