The Wilderness Warrior - Douglas Brinkley [1]
Chapter Six Chasing Buffalo in the Badlands and Grizzlies in the Bighorns
The Lordly Buffalo—Chugging on the Northern Pacific Railroad—Barbed Wire on the Open Range—The Badlands of North Dakota—Reveling in the Real Earth—The Great Buffalo Hunt—Turning Rancher and Stockman—The Maltese Cross Brand—Valentine Deaths of His Loves—Bighorns and Beyond—Lonely Bugle Call of Elk—Rolling Plains and Antelope Herds—Grizzly, King of the Rockies
Chapter Seven Cradle of Conservation: The Elkhorn Ranch of North Dakota
Jottings Away—Grover Cleveland’s Triumph—Badlands Snow—The Dominant Primordial Beast—Beavering for Firewood—The Fashion Plate—A Trip After Bighorn Sheep—An Adobe of Iron Desolation—Birth of the Literary Sportsman—Outmatched by George Bird Grinnell—The White Wolf and the Native Americans—The Elkhorn Ranch and Conservationist Thinking—Old Bullion Returns—Deputy Sheriff of Billings County—Courting of Edith Carrow—Defeated for Mayor of New York City—Winter of the Blue Snow
Chapter Eight Wildlife Protection Business: Boone and Crockett Club Meets the U.S. Biological Survey
Ranch Life Lore—Out of Big Game—Birth of the Boone and Crockett Club—Idaho as God’s Country—Ranch Life Continued—Frederic Remington and Frontier Types—Burning the Midnight Oil—Dr. Merriam, I Presume—The Cyclone and the Shrew—Jaguar Eyes and the Flash of Green Fire
Chapter Nine Laying the Groundwork with John Burroughs and Benjamin Harrison
The Late Great John Burroughs—Sharp Eyes of the Naturalist—Busting Bad Guys at the U.S. Civil Service—Brother Elliott Struggles with Life—Who’s Not Afraid of Western Developers?—Reading Elliott Coues—Bears, Bears, and More Bears—The Itinerant Historian—Bullish against the Hay-Adams Circle—Americanism and The Winning of the West—Carousing at Sagamore Hill—The Medora Magic—Yellowstone Days—Springing into Action at the Metropolitan Club—President Benjamin Harrison Steps Up to the Plate—Cooke City Crooks—The Darwinian Cowboy—Birth of the National Forest System—Frederick Jackson Turner’s Closed Frontier—Grover Cleveland Picks Up the Conservationist Torch—Awe and Admiration at Two Ocean Pass
Chapter Ten The Wilderness Hunter in the Electric Age
Shooting Wild Boars in Texas—The Mighty Javelina Charge—Deadwood Days and Pine Ridge Blues—The Triumph of the Log Cabin—Boom and Bust at the Chicago World’s Fair—The Panic of 1893—Albert Bierstadt’s Moose—Boone and Crockett Club Ventures into Publishing—W. B. Devereaux and Colorado Camera Hunting—Americanism of The Wilderness Hunter—President Grover Cleveland and the Yellowstone Game Protection Act of 1894—Getting On with Interior Secretary Hoke Smith—Garbage Dump Bears—The California National Parks—Good-Bye to Brother Elliott—Social Darwinism Run Amok
Chapte Eleven The Bronx Zoo Founder
Clashes with Dr. C. Hart Merriam—Buffalo Mania—Welcome to the New York Zoological Society—Mr. Madison Grant—Husband Taxidermy and Dr. William Temple Hornaday—Hunting in Foreign Lands—New York Police Chief Doldrums—Support from Cornelius Bliss—Squabbling Over Bears and Coyotes With Dr. C. Hart Merriam—Cervus Roosevelt—Anchors Away with Hornets, Wasps, and Yellowjackets—Daydreaming of the Faraway Olympic Mountains—The “Forever Wild” Mammals of the Adirondacks—Where the Buffalo Roam Stamp (or Pike’s Peak)
Chapter Twelve The Rough Rider
The White Chief Clamors for War—Remember the Maine—Here Come the Rough Riders—From San Antonio to Tampa Bay—Quick-Come-See, There Goes Colonel Roosevelt—Musing over Edmund Demoulins and Anglo-Saxon Superiority—Dear Sweet Josephine—Cuban Wood Doves—In the Death Grip of Vultures and Crabs—Beating Back the Spanish Sharks—Repairing in Montauk—Mascots Remembered—Going for the Governorship—Remington’s Bronco Buster—Walks with Leonard Wood—The Roosevelt Special—Victory at the Ballot Box
Chapter Thirteen Higher Political Perches
Smashing His Way into the Governorship—Reforming the New York Forest, Fish, and Game Commission—Gifford Pinchot, My Boy—The Pinchot-LaFarge Expedition—Learning about Forestry Science—Sparring with Easy Boss Platt