The Wilderness Warrior - Douglas Brinkley [3]
Spirit Trail of Southwestern Oklahoma—Cecil Andrew Lyon’s Texas Invite—Lessons in Oklahoma History—The Baynes Plan—Catch ’Em Alive Jack Abernathy—Greyhounds, Wild Horses, and Wild Wolves—The President as Buffalo Man—Gentlemen of the Press—Dallas Mayhem—San Antonio Spurs—Red River Ranchman—Peace Piping with Quanah Parker—Colorado Gospel Days—Punching Back at the Nature Fakirs—Mr. Abernathy Comes to Washington—Publication of Out-door Pastimes—Buffalo Comeback—The American Bison Society—The Making of an Oklahoman—The Preservation of the Species—Buffalo Thunder into the Flathead Indian Reservation, Fort Niobrara, and Wind Cave—Why Haven’t You Visited the Wichita Forest and Game Preserve?
Chapter Twenty-Two The National Monuments of 1906
How Was Devils Tower Made?—John Goff Is Mauled—Pushing for Statehood—Adding Utah to the Board—Down with the Anarchists—The Stench of Standard Oil—The Sad Lament of San Francisco—My Western Friends Named Wister and Remington—The Antiquities Act of 1906—The Four Corners of John Wetherill—The Mining Snakes of Arizona—Defending Alaska’s Seal Rookeries—Mesa Verde Mother and the Clip-joint Thieves—Poor Ota Benga—Patting Pinchot on the Back—Wild Turkey Hunt in Virginia—El Morro of New Mexico—Montezuma Castle of Arizona—Mr. Lacey’s Petrified Forest
Chapter Twenty-Three The Prehistoric Sites of 1907
Welcoming James R. Garfield to Interior—The Great Forest Preserve Pickpocketing—Hate Mail from the West—Using Arbor Day as Sword—Those Sick Oil Gluttons—Visiting Mount Vernon—Lovely Days at Pine Knot—Our Last Glimpse of Passenger Pigeons—Extinct or Not Extinct?—Old Remington Keeps Getting Better—New Winds in Chaco Canyon—Lassen Peak and Cinder Cone—Steamboating Down the Ole Miss—All the Way to Memphis—The Great Lakes–to–Gulf Deep Waterway Association—Yin-Yang Views—Ben Lilly in the Canebrakes—Holt Collier to the Rescue—Enduring the Scorn of Mark Twain—Could the Boone and Crockett Club Be Wrong?—The Rosetta Stones of Gila Cliff Dwellings and Tonto National Monument
Chapter Twenty-Four Mighty Birds: Federal Reservations of 1907–1908
Hurrah for Reverend Herbert K. Job’s Wild Wings—Onward with the Federal Bird Reservations of Louisiana—Three Arch Rocks—No to Oil Derricks on the Pacific Coast—Mosquito Inlet and the Tortugas Group—The Lumbering Manatees—Birds on the Edge of Extinction—The Unsolved Murder of Columbus McLeod—Winning the Feather Wars—Those Magnificent Hunters—Inside a Crocodile’s Belly—The Incredible Mr. William L. Finley—Contradictions in Klamath Basin—The Haranguing Specialist—Memorializing the Oregon Fight
Chapter Twenty-Five The Preservationist Revolution of 1908
Muir Trees—Seizing and Saving the Grand Canyon—The Pinnacles of Grandeur—To Jewel Cave Unknown—Sun Burning Bright over Natural Bridges—Let’s Do Something for Lewis and Clark—Here Comes the Governors Conference—Giving William Jennings Bryan the Snub—At the Grand Canyon—The First of July’s Crowded Hour Reserves—Africa on the Mind—“Come On, Boys, Join the Country Life Commission”—All the Way to Tumacacori—Shadow Boxing with Jack London—Thinking about History as the Big Sure Winner—Joint Conservation Congress—Saving the Farallons—Sorry for Hetch-Hetchy—War over Loch-Katrine in Wyoming—The Conservative Radical
Chapter Twenty-Six Dangerous Antagonist: The Last Bold Steps of 1909
Testing Rifles—Clairvoyant Games with the Tafts—Stymieing an Unsuspecting Congress—Twain Missed the Point—Hawaiian Island Rookeries—No Trespassing for Rabbits—Cakewalking Birds on Laysan Island—Necker Island’s Gods—The February 25 Reservations—East Park and the Farallon Islands—An Eye of Oregon’s Cold Springs—Canada and Mexico Join Forces with America—Taft Buses the World Conservation Congress—The Fight for Conservation with Garfield and Pinchot—Fearing Nobody—Mount Olympus for the Ages—The Boone and Crockett Club’s Bad Shot—The Embryos of Hans Driesch—Cowboy Ballads of John A. Lomax—The Roosevelt Blizzard—Swearing In William Howard Taft Adieu to Power—Happy Trails!
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