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18. Hag.RBL.61.
19. Goplen, Arnold O., “The Career of the Marquis de Mores in the Bad Lands of North Dakota,” North Dakota History, Jan.-Apr. 1946, 11; Twe. passim; Put.351; Howard Eaton in HAG.Bln.; Twe.69, 71.
20. Hag.RBL.336; Twe. passim.
21. Qu. Put.351; Goplen, 11; Twe. 111–3.
22. Twe. passim.
23. The chimney still stands in Medora, N.D., symbolizing exactly the opposite.
24. Goplen, 17.
25. Mor.50. The text hereafter closely follows Put.353–60. See also Hag.RBL., Twe., and Lan.71–2.
26. Lan.71.
27. Bismarck Daily Tribune, qu. Put.355, 356; Hag.RBL.63.
28. Put.538.
29. Ib., 356.
30. This description of the buckboard’s trip south to the Maltese Cross ranch is based on Hag.RBL.13; Put.325–6; HAG.Bln.; Lan. passim; and personal observations made by the author on a visit to the Badlands in 1974.
31. Lan.46.
32. Ib., 44; Put.325; Schoch, Henry A., TR National Memorial Park: The Story Behind the Scenery (National Park Service, 1974) 23.
33. Ib., 4.
34. Hag.RBL.13; TRB memo.
35. Hag.RBL.13–5; HAG.Bln.; Put.321 and passim; TR.Auto.95; Put.334.
36. TR.Auto.95-6; Hag.RBL.14.
37. Ib., 16–7. TR, who was no man to hold grudges, forgave their initial distrust of him to the extent of awarding all three men commissions when he became President. Joe Ferris was made Postmaster of Medora; Sylvane Ferris, Land Officer of North Dakota; William Merrifield, Marshal of Montana. (TR.Auto.96).
38. Text follows Putnam’s assumption that TR here, as in the nights following, refused to occupy the bunks of his hosts.
39. Hag.RBL.17–8. The following description of the Badlands is based on a personal visit by the author, with touches borrowed from Lan., Hag.RBL., Put., and Schoch passim. Note: The Badlands of the Little Missouri (not to be confused with the better-known Badlands of South Dakota) straddle the common border of North Dakota and Montana with an average width of 50 miles. North to south the area measures approximately 225 miles.
40. TR.Pri.Di. Jan. 3, 1883; qu. Put.312.
41. Put.326–8; Hag.RBL.18–9; Lan.83, 101–2.
42. The following section is based on Lan. 100 ff.
43. Ib., 101–2.
44. Put.317–29; Hag.RBL.19; Lan. passim. (Gregor Lang bought the cabin, actually an old hunting shack, from Frank O’Donald.)
45. Lan.86, 100 ff.
46. Lan.113. The following account of TR’s buffalo hunt is taken primarily from his own narrative in “The Lordly Buffalo” (TR.Wks.I.185–206). Hereafter this source will be abbreviated as “Buffalo.” Secondary sources: Hag. RBL.23–46; Put.329–345; HAG.Bln.; Lan.
47. Hag.RBL.24.
48. Lan.113.
49. Ib., 104, 111; Lang, qu. HAG.Bln.
50. Lan.104, 111. Lang states that TR’s views on “the race suicide question” were essentially the same in 1883 as those he made famous as President. “I admire the men who are not afraid to propagate their kind as far as they may,” he told Gregor Lang—conscious, no doubt, of his own seed swelling in the body of Alice Lee.
51. Lan.109.
52. Lang, qu. Hag.RBL.28.
53. Ib.
54. See Put.339.
55. Lang qu. Hag.RBL.27.
56. From now on text follows TR’s own account in “Buffalo.”
57. Joe Ferris stated that TR “bled like a stuck pig.” (HAG.Bln.) He was, by all accounts, a prodigious bleeder all his life.
58. “Buffalo,” 202; Hag.RBL.34 fn.
59. “Buffalo,” 202; Hag.RBL.36.
60. “Buffalo,” 204–5.
61. Qu. Hag.RBL.37.
62. Lan. 116–7.
63. Hag.RBL.41.
64. Ib., 28, 38–9.
65. Qu. Hag.RBL.42–43. (Hagedorn, reconstructing this conversation in 1919, relied on the memories of Sylvane, Merrifield, and Lang.) The deal was later sealed with a contract worked out by Gregor Lang and agreed to by all parties before TR’s departure from Dakota. TR signed it on Sep. 27, 1883, in St. Paul, Put.343; see Appendix to Hag.RBL. (original edition) for text.
66. Hag.RBL.39.
67. Following details from Put.337.
68. TR to E, Nov. 28, 1880 (FDR). James A. Roosevelt, elder brother, executor, and trustee of TR Sr., also acted as the family banker.
69. Pri.54.
70. Author’s calculation, based on accounts in TR.Pri.Di., 1883.
71. Lan.105.
72. Hag.RBL.44.
73. “Buffalo,” 205–6.
74.