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32. Put.288.
33. TR.Wks.XIV.21; Observer, Mar. 10, 1883 (TR.Scr.).
34. HUN.53; Put.285–6.
35. Put.283–5; Nev.116; N.Y.T., Jan. 8, 1883.
36. Nev.116–7; Put.284; Bis.1.20.
37. Albany Argus, Mar. 5, 1883; Put.284; TR.Scr.
38. Albany Argus and N.Y. World, Mar. 3, 1883.
39. The phrase rated headlines in, e.g., Chicago Tribune, May 7, 1883. The paper published a long editorial on “this startling proposition.” See also Sul.386.
40. World, March 3, 5, 13, 1883; Put.286. But see also Commercial Advertiser (Mar. 3) praising TR’s “courage and manliness” in this, “the most extraordinary confession that perhaps was ever heard in a deliberative body.”
41. N.Y. Sun, Mar. 8, 1883; Put.286.
42. TR.Wks.XIV.16–21 for complete text of this speech. Interestingly, TR considered it, not the mea culpa of Mar. 2, his “main speech” of the session. (Mor.67.)
43. Sun, Mar. 10. TR petulantly declared that even though his resignation had been refused, he would “not do another stroke of work with the Committee.” (ib.)
44. See, e.g., Observer, Mar. 10, 1883 (TR.Scr.).
45. World, Mar. 10, 1883.
46. HUN.38–40.
47. Ib.; Hunt, supplementary statement, 8–9.
48. Nev.112ff.
49. TR.Wks.XIV.23–4; N.Y.T., Apr. 10, 1883.
50. Ib.
51. Nev.123. (But see Put.232. fn.)
52. HUN.39; Nev.123.
53. Mor.3.634.
54. TR to Jacob Riis (Rii.59).
55. TR.Auto.82; Put.302.
56. Put.282; N.Y.T., Mar. 26, 1883; Put.283; TR.Wks.XIV.25; Put.290–1; Morning Journal, Feb. 19, 1883.
57. N.Y.T., Mar. 26, 1883.
58. Harper’s Weekly, Apr. 21, 1883.
59. Parker, George F., Recollections of Grover Cleveland (NY, 1911) 250.
60. N.Y.T., May 29, 1883.
61. Ib.
62. Hag.RBL.8–9.
63. See, e.g., MBR to E, Dec. 7, 1880: “Teddie tho’ he rejoices with you in your prospects for your Hunt longs to be with you—and walks up and down the room like a Caged Lynx. When Alice appeals to him he smothers her with kisses and tells her he is perfectly happy with her but some time he must go off with his gun instead of pouring [sic] over Brown versus Jenkins etc.” (FDR).
64. Hag.RBL.8–9; Put.308–9.
65. See Ch. 5; also Hag.RF.6.
66. TR to Editor, Country Life in America, Oct. 3, 1915 (Sagamore Hill collection).
67. TR to MBR, Sep. 4, 1883 (TRC).
68. Mor. 60.
69. The full text of this letter is in Mor.60–1.
70. Anna Bulloch Gracie diary, July 1, 1883; memorandum by Gary Roth, curator, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site; see also Hag.RF.6–7.
71. COW.
72. TR to B, Aug. 25, 1883 (TRB); E to B, Aug. 29 (FDR); MBR to E, Aug. 30 (FDR).
73. TR to MBR, Sep. 4, 1883; Mor.76.
74. Ib.
75. TR’s train journey reconstructed from his letters to MBR of Sep. 4 and 8, 1883, and Official Railways Guide, July–September 1883. Description of the Badlands on arrival of a stranger from an 1882 travel article in HAG.Bln., and author’s own experiences of a midnight visit.
76. TR to MBR, Sep. 8, 1883.
77. TR.Auto.95.
8: THE DUDE FROM NEW YORK
1. TR.Auto.95.
2. Hag.RBL.10; TR.Auto.95; Lan.52–3.
3. Ib.
4. Ib.
5. Put.320; Lan.53.
6. Hag.RBL.7–8; Lan.48, 56.
7. Brown, Dee, Trail Driving Days (Scribner’s, 1952) 185.
8. Hag.RBL.48; Put.313.
9. Hag.RBL.10-11.
10. See Put.313–7 for a more detailed account of the destruction of the northern herd, estimated at 1.5 million animals only a decade before. Other details from Lan.23–25. “Bone merchants” were freelance scavengers employed by the big phosphate companies.
11. Hag.RBL.11; Lan. passim.
12. Put.321; Hag.RBL.10; 16, 11.
13. Ib., 12; Mor.3.551; see also Put.322–3. Putnam is confused by Hagedorn’s mistaken assertion that it was the Winchester that was broken. TR himself confirms, in the letter to John Hay cited above, that the Sharps was faulty.
14. Hag.RBL.12; Put.324; Mor.3.551; HAG.Bln.
15. Lan.70; Put.316; Hag.RBL.49–50; HAG.Bln.; Put.325; Lan.69–70.
16. Hag.RBL.49; Twe.29.
17. Twe. passim; Hag.RBL.59; Dr. Stickney in HAG.Bln.; O’Donald, qu. Paddock