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7. Olcott, McK, II.316.
8. Ib.
9. Pri.231; Hagedorn memo, TRB mss. Secretary of State John Hay received similar assurances that McK was recovering, and proceeded to write a circular letter communicating the good news to all U.S. Embassies. “I thought it might stop the rain of enquiries from all over the world. After I had written it the black cloud of foreboding, which is always over my head, settled down and enveloped me and I dared not send it.” Hay to Henry Adams, Sep. 19, 1901, ADA.
10. The following description of TR’s expedition up Mount Marcy is based on these sources: Tahawus Club Guest Book, memoranda by George G. Whee-lock, club president, and Beverly R. Robinson, member, Sep. 12, 1901; World, Sep. 15, 1901; Noah La Casse, int. Harry V. Radford, Forest Leaves, Winter 1904; TR.Auto.364; TR to J. J. Leary, Leary Notes, TRB; Hagedorn Notes, TRB; letter from Julia Hill, local resident, in ib.; reminiscences of EKR in Women’s Roosevelt Memorial Association Bulletin (Fall 1933); Harmes, Edward A., “2.15 A.M.,” article in The Adirondac, Nov.-Dec. 1963; Taylor, Dorothy, “Noah La Casse, Presidential Hiking Mate,” Adirondack Life, 1972.3(2) 9–11. Scenic material from ib., 1972.3(1) 37, and 1973.4(3) 40.
11. Taylor, “La Casse.”
12. EKR in WRMA Bulletin; Radford, La Casse int.
13. Ib.; Hagedorn Notes; Taylor, “La Casse.”
14. Rii.76.
15. Radford, La Casse int.
16. Ib.; TR.Auto.364. La Casse testified that TR “became very calm” as he watched the ranger approach. TR to Leary: “I instinctively knew he had bad news … I wanted to become President, but I did not want to become President that way.”
ILLUSTRATIONS
frt.1Theodore Roosevelt at the time of his Harvard entrance examinations, 1876.
Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library.
prl.1 Theodore Roosevelt receives the American people on New Year’s Day.
Brown Brothers.
p1.1 Martha Bulloch Roosevelt at twenty-two.
Brown Brothers.
2.1 Theodore Roosevelt Senior, aged about forty-five.
Author’s Collection.
3.1 Theodore Roosevelt the Harvard freshman, 1877.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, New York.
4.1 Alice Hathaway Lee when Theodore Roosevelt first met her.
Theodore Roosevelt Association.
4.2 Alice Lee, Theodore Roosevelt, and Rose Saltonstall on their
“tintype spree.”
Alice Sturm Collection, privately held.
4.3 Theodore Roosevelt at the time of his assault on the Matterhorn, 1881.
Theodore Roosevelt Association.
5.1 Theodore Roosevelt at the time of his election to the New York State Assembly.
Theodore Roosevelt Association.
6.1 The New York State Assembly Chamber in 1882.
New York Public Library.
6.2 Alice, Corinne, and Bamie Roosevelt, about 1882.
Theodore Roosevelt Association.
7.1 Assemblymen Roosevelt, Howe, Spinney, Hunt, and O’Neil.
Theodore Roosevelt Association.
8.1 Antoine-Amédée-Marie-Vincent-Amat Manca de Vallombrosa, Marquis de Morès.
North Dakota State Historical Society.
9.1 Hallway of the Roosevelt mansion at 6 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York, 1880s.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
10.1 Governor Grover Cleveland. Painting by Eastman Johnson.
New York State Library.
10.2 The first public advertisement of the Maltese Cross brand, 1884.
Theodore Roosevelt Association.
11.1 Theodore Roosevelt in his buckskin suit, 1884.
Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library.
12.1 Sagamore Hill in 1885.
Theodore Roosevelt Association.
12.2 Edith Kermit Carow at twenty-four.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
13.1 Deputy Sheriff Roosevelt and his prisoners.
Theodore Roosevelt Association.
14.1 Cecil Arthur Spring Rice at thirty-five.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace.
col.1 Dying cow, December 1886. Painting by Charles Russell.
Montana Stockgrowers Association.
15.1 The Meadowbrook Hunt meeting at Sagamore Hill in the 1880s.
Theodore Roosevelt Association.
16.1 Congressman Henry Cabot Lodge, by John Singer Sargent, 1890.
National Portrait Gallery.
16.2 Elliott Roosevelt about the time