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73. TR to B, Nov. 13, 1888. The cousin was West Roosevelt, and the friend Frank Underhill.
74. TR.Wks.I.409.
75. Ib., 79; Lan.223–4.
76. Ib., 222–4. Lincoln Lang was an early and passionate conservationist, far ahead of his time. It was his considered opinion that TR was so sickened by the environmental damage suffered by the Badlands in 1886 (before the Great Blizzard) that he had decided to give up the cattle business “several months before he actually did.” (Ib., 225.)
77. See Clay, Life on the Range, 43.
78. TR to MBR, Apr. 28, 1868 (see Ch. 1).
79. TR.Wks.II.160.
80. See Cut. passim for TR’s early conservationist instincts.
81. Lan.223–4.
82. TR to B, Nov. 20, 1887; Grinnell in TR.Wks.I.xiv–xvii.
83. Rules qu. in TR’s own description of the Club, Harper’s Weekly, Mar. 1893.
84. Ib.; Grinnell in TR.Wks.I.xvii; TR in Harper’s Weekly, Mar. 1893.
85. Cut.70; TR.Wks.I.xvii–i.
86. Cut.70–3; TR in Harper’s Weekly, Mar. 1893.
87. Cut.78; TR.Wks.I.xviii.
88. Eugene Swope, curator Roosevelt Bird Sanctuary at Oyster Bay, to Helen Elizabeth Reed (TRC).
89. Cut.79.
90. See TR to B, Feb. 12, 1887.
91. The eminent historian David Seville Muzzey, writing in 1927, called the act “one of the most noteworthy measures ever passed in the history of this nation.” Qu. Cut.72.
92. See Nev.383 ff.
93. $55 million on Dec. 1, 1887. By the end of the fiscal year 1888 it was expected to grow to $140 million. Nev.375.
94. See Sto.152.
95. Ib., 153.
96. Nev.395.
97. Mor.136; Lod.62; Har.73.
98. Mor. 136. TR had made a similar confession to HCL about a year earlier (Lod.51), but had failed to act upon it. Mor.705.
99. Although once, when writing the first chapter of Benton, he described it as “an outline I intend to fill up.” Mor.94.
100. E.g., Mor.141.
101. Ib., 134–5; also 133. Commonwealth was duly proclaimed a masterpiece when it appeared in December 1888, and is regarded as such to this day.
102. Bryce, James, The American Commonwealth (N.Y., 1888) I.540–2, II.103, 119, 173, has extensive quotes from TR’s essays on legislative and municipal corruption.
103. Later the theme was extended still further, to include the more recent settlements of New Mexico and Arizona, covering two full centuries of American history.
104. Mor.140.
105. See Gable, “TR as Historian,” xi–xxiv for a modern historiographical assessment of TR. The Winning of the West is extensively discussed below, in Ch. 18.
106. Mor.140; also see below.
107. TR’s trip to the South lasted from Mar. 21 to about Apr. 3, 1888; he visited Washington at least twice, in late January and early March.
108. Mor.197.
109. The manuscript of The Winning of the West is now in the New York Public Library.
110. TR to B, July 1, 1888.
111. TR to Brander Matthews, Oct. 5, 1888.
112. See TR to B, Oct. 13, 1889, when he complains that his new income of $3,500 will be “700/800 dollars” less than his income as a writer in 1888.
113. Norton, Charles Eliot, Walt Whitman as Man, Poet, and Friend (Boston, 1919), 216.
114. Lod.56; See N.Y.T., Nov. 30, 1888: “Cleverly told, very handsome and interesting.” Also The Book Buyer, Dec. 1888: “To a most readable style of writing Mr. Roosevelt adds a thorough familiarity with his subject, happily combining accuracy with entertainment.”
115. TR to B, July 13, 1888.
116. Mor.145–9; TR to B, Sep. 18, 1888.
117. Ib.; Mor.147.
118. Mor.142.
119. Pla.252: “… he was as glacial as a Siberian stripped of his furs.”
120. Mor.148; Tha.84.
121. Mor.149.
122. Manuscript in New York Public Library.
123. TR to B, n.d., 1888.
124. COW.
125. George Haven Putnam in TR.Wks.IX.xv; see also Mor.197.
126. Mor.163.
127. Ib., 156.
128. Ib.
129. Lod.74.
130. Gar.104; Har.74.
131. Mor.154.
132. Lod.76; HCL to W. R. Thayer, Oct. 7, 1919.
133. There is a good account of these celebrations in the Sun, May 1, 1889.
134. Ib.; Foraker, Mrs. Julia, I Would Live It Again (Harpers, 1932) 167–8.
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