The Wilderness Warrior - Douglas Brinkley [2]
Chapter Fourteen The Advocate of the Strenuous Life
The Ballad of Oom John—Mr. and Mrs. Bluebird—Far and Near—The Strenuous Life Doctrine—We Want Teddy!—The Robert B. Roosevelt Endorsement—Cougar Collecting in Colorado—My Life as a Naturalist—Let the Blacktails Roam Free—Gavels Away as Vice President—Confession to Hamlin Garland—Fuming at C. G. Gunther’s Sons—Persona Trapped—Learning Conservation from Vermonters—Shooting of William McKinley—Conquering Mount Marcy, at Last—Death of an Ohio President
Chapter Fifteen The Conservationist President and the Bully Pulpit for Forestry
The New Agenda—Looking for Rangers in All the Right Places—Seth Bullock Turns Black Hills Ranger—Dining with Booker T. Washington—The Lay of the Land—First Annual Message—Major Pitcher, Buffalo Jones, and Yellowstone—The Bully Crusader—The Deer Family—Promoting Cameras over Guns—Changing Ways at USDA—The Great Western Water Crusade—Supporting the Newlands Act—Near-Death Collision—Inspecting the Biltmore Estate—An Operation—Father to His Brood—Joined at the Hip with Darwin in Saddlebag
Chapter Sixteen The Great Mississippi Bear Hunt and Saving the Puerto Rican Parrot
Train Ride to Smedes—Holt Collier’s 3,000 Dead Bears—Briar Patches and Canebreaks—Clifford Berryman and the Birth of the Teddy Bear—The Buffalo Soldiers Protect California’s Parks—Don’t Call Me Teddy!—Luquillo Forest Reserve of Puerto Rico—The Endangered Puerto Rican Parrot—Loretta and Eli Yale—El Yunque Forever
Chapter Seventeen Crater Lake and Wind Cave National Parks
Championing National Parks—Fighting Opposition to the Grand Canyon—Shifting Gears to Crater Lake—The Committee of Steel—Wishing upon a Star—The Oregon Circuit—Preserving the Cascades—The Subterranean Wonder of Wind Cave—Mapping the Underworld—Senator Gamble Finds Cause—John Lacey Yet Again—The Virginian Rides into Town—Vigilante Justice for Wildlife—Nebraska Tree Farmers—Thirteen New National Forests—Great Spatial Silence
Chapter Eighteen Paul Kroegel and the Feather Wars of Florida
Darwin’s Evolutionary Laboratory of Florida—Enamored of Brown Pelicans—White Storks of Chemnitz—Cheers for Stout Paul Kroegel—Surviving the Big Freeze—The Adventures of Captain Paul—Frank M. Chapman and Bird Studies with a Camera—Ma Latham’s Oak Lodge—Stopping the Feather Wars—The Creation of Pelican Island as a Federal Bird Reservation—No Trespassing Allowed—Warden Kroegel on Patrol—The Wicked Murder of Guy Bradley—Pelican Watcher Prevails—Terns of Passage Key
Chapter Nineteen Passports to the Parks: Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and Yosemite
Planning the Great Loop—Rejection of the Yellowstone Hunt—Those Loathsome Nature Fakirs—Camping and Tramping with John Burroughs—Naturalists at Yellowstone—Dr. Merriam on the Mind—High Times with Seth Bullock—Worrying about Edgar Lee Hewett’s Ruins—The Keokuk Buffalo Wire—A Pilgrimage to John Lacey’s Iowa—Saint Louis Doldrums—Josiah the Badger—Goin’ to Santa Fe—Ridin’ Fast to the Grand Canyon—The Great Chasm—Man Can Only Mar It—Keepin’ on to Los Angeles—Big Tree Country Sequoias—San Francisco Promenade—Mariposa Grove Camping with John Muir—The Blue Merry Eyes of Muir—Mount Shasta It Is—William L. Finley and Three Arch Rocks—Dragging It Out in Seattle—Bringing Back Baby Josiah
Chapter Twenty Beauty Unmarred: Winning the White House in 1904
Playing Historian of the World—Greenspace Adoration—Alaska on the Mind—Our Wilderness Reserves—The Immensity of Tongass—Dreaming of Golden Trout—The Samurai Spirit—The Albatross of Midway—Hobart the Vassal of Luck—Landslide 1904—Andrew Carnegie and the Forest Museum—Meet Me in Saint Louis—Sully’s Hill National Park—Tin Can Grizzlies—Captain William Sprinkle and Breton Island—Marching to Chain Bridge—Telling Standard Oil to Take a Hike—Warring over Seals—Lincoln’s Hair Ring—Stumping for Stump Lake
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