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40. Stephen Haycox and Alexandra McClanahan, Alaska Scrapbook: Moments in Alaska History (Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Center, 2008), pp. 119–120.

41. David L. Lendt, Ding: The Life of Jay Norwood Darling (Iowa City, IA: Maecenas, 2000).

42. Eric Jay Dolin and Bob Dumaine, The Duck Stamp Story (Iola, WI: Krause, 2000), p. 49.

43. Roosevelt to Henry L. Stimson, November 28, 1941, in Edgar B. Nixon (ed.), Franklin D. Roosevelt and Conservation, 1911–1945, 2 vols. (Hyde Park, NY: General Services Administration, 1957), Vol. 2, pp. 540–541.

44. Fox, The American Conservation Movement, pp. 220–223.

45. Raymond Blaine Fosdick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: A Portrait (New York: Harper, 1956), p. 129.

46. Tom H. Watkins, Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874–1952 (New York: Holt, 1990), p. 829.

47. Douglas, A Wilderness Bill of Rights, p. 134.

48. Alden Whitman, “Vigorous Defender of Rights,” New York Times, January 20, 1980, p. 28.

49. George Bookman, “Wonderful World of Walking,” Living Wilderness, Vol. 20, No. 52 (Spring–Summer 1955), p. 1.

50. William O. Douglas, “The C&O Canal . . . 1959,” Living Wilderness, Vol. 24, No. 68 (Spring 1959), p. 2.

51. Thoreau, Walden, p. 40.

52. Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), pp. 271–272.

53. Michael J. Robinson, Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2005), p. 292.

54. David Brower, Wilderness: America’s Living Heritage (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, 1961), pp. 102–103.

55. Murphy, Wild Bill, p. 455.

56. Ibid., pp. 454–457.

1. Ansel Adams, An Autobiography (New York: Little, Brown, 1996), p. 236.

2. Ibid.

3. Kristin G. Congdon and Kara Kelley Hallmark, Twentieth Century United States Photographers (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008), p. 10.

4. Jonathan Spaulding, Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 236.

5. Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman (eds.), Ansel Adams: Letters 1916–1984 (New York: Bulfinch, 2001), p. 402.

6. Ibid., p. 33.

7. Robert Turnage, “Ansel Adams: The Role of the Artist in the Environmental Movement,” Living Wilderness (March 1980).

8. Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns, The National Parks (New York: Random House, 2009), p. 303.

9. Richard J. Orsi, Alfred Runte, and Marlene Smith-Baranzini, Yosemite and Sequoia: A Century of California National Parks (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993); see also Mike White, Kings Canyon National Park: A Complete Hiker’s Guide (Berkeley, CA: Wilderness, 2004).

10. Duncan and Burns, The National Parks, pp. 304–305.

11. Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: A Biography (New York: Holt, 1996), pp. 213–214.

12. Author interview with Michael Adams, June 8, 2010 (Carmel, CA).

13. Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Nelson Limerick (eds.), The Western Paradox: A Bernard De Voto Conservation Reader (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. 196–197.

14. Ansel Adams to Ted Spencer, February 8, 1947, in Alinder and Stillman, Ansel Adams, p. 190.

15. Adams, An Autobiography, p. 236.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid., p. 238.

18. Alinder and Stillman, Ansel Adams, p. 217.

19. Adams, An Autobiography.

20. Ibid.

21. Spaulding, Ansel Adams and the American Landscape, pp. 235–236.

22. Author interview with Michael Adams, June 2, 2010 (Carmel, CA).

23. Robert Hirsch, Seizing the Light: A History of Photography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000), pp. 246–248.

24. Ibid.

25. Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (New York: Little, Brown, 1983).

26. Susanne Lomatch, Black and White Luminaries: Insights into Adams and Garrett (Boise, ID: Idaho Photographic Workshop, February 21, 2010).

27. Spaulding, Ansel Adams and the American Landscape, p. 236.

28. Author interview with Michael Adams,