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41. T.R., “My Life as a Naturalist,” American Museum Fournal, Vol. 18 (May 1918), p. 321. See also Hermann Hagedorn (ed.), The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Memorial Edition (New York: Scribner, 1923), p. 443.
42. Frank Chapman to T.R. ([n.d.] 1908). Chapman Papers, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
43. Frank M. Chapman, Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist (New York: Appleton, 1908), pp. 85–95.
44. Paul Russell Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist (New York: Harper, 1956), p. 144.
45. Kathleen Dalton, Theodore Roosevelt: The Strenuous Life (New York: Knopf, 2002), p. 16.
46. Reffalt, “Prologue to Pelican Island.”
47. Pelican Island Federal Bird Reservation Declaration (March 14, 1903). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Archive, Vero Beach, Fla.
48. Charles Alexander, “A Life with Birds,” Birder’s World (April 2003), p. 42. The figure changes annually.
49. Sidney P. Johnston, A History of Indian River County (Vero Beach, Fla.: Indian River County Historical Society, 2000), p. 39.
50. T.R., An Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1913), p. 436.
51. “Passage Key and the American Wildlife Conservation Movement” [n.d.] (Crystal River, Fla.: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Archives).
52. Bill McKibben (ed.), American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (New York: Library of America, 2008).
53. T.R., A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open (New York: Scribner, 1916), pp. 316–317.
54. John L. Eliot, “Roosevelt Country: T.R.’s Wilderness Legacy,” National Geographic, Vol. 162, No. 3 (September 1982), pp. 340–362.
55. Aida D. Donald, Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Basic Books, 2007), p. 193.
56. “The President Helps Lay a Cornerstone,” New York Times, April 25, 1903, p. 1.
57. “Conservation as National Duty,” President Theodore Roosevelt’s Opening Address in Proceedings of a Conference of National Governors (May 13, 1909).
58. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (New York: Scribner, 1905), p. 317.
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1. Oliver H. Orr, Jr., Saving American Birds: T. Gilbert Pearson and the Founding of the Audubon Movement (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1992), p. 18.
2. David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981), p. 114.
3. Paul Russell Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist (New York: Harper, 1956), p. xiii.
4. T.R. to Edward Sanford Martin (November 26, 1900).
5. T.R., African Game Trails (New York: Scribner, 1910), p. xi.
6. The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol. 1 (London: Macmillan, 1884), p. 6.
7. Janet Browne, Darwin’s Origin of Species (New York: Grove, 2006), pp. 1–5.
8. T.R., “The Pigskin Library” in Literary Essays, National Edition, Vol. 2, pp. 337–346. This originally appeared in Outlook, Vol. 94, Issue 18 (April 30, 1910).
9. Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Coward, McCann, 1979), p. 23.
10. T.R. to James Joseph Walsh (February 23, 1909).
11. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, Roosevelt’s Religion (New York: Abingdon, 1922), p. 32.
12. Jacob A. Riis, Theodore Roosevelt: The Citizen (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1904), pp. 7–8.
13. Darwin, The Descent of Man (Akron, Ohio: Werner, 1874).
14. T.R., “My Life as a Naturalist,” American Museum Journal, Vol. 18 (May 1918), p. 321.
15. Richard W. Etulain, Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1999), p. 5–30.
16. Mayne Reid, The Scalp Hunters; Or, Romantic Adventures in Northern Mexico, Vol. I (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1851), p. 2.
17. Mayne Reid, The Land Pirates; or The League of Devil’s Island (New York: Beadle’s Half-Dime Library, 1879), pp. 4–14.
18. Mayne Reid, The Boy Hunters, Or Adventures in Search of a White Buffalo (London: David Bogue, Fleet Street, 1852), p. 17.
19. Ibid., pp. 27–28.
20. Ibid.
21. Joan Steele, Captain Mayne Reid (Boston, Mass.: Twayne, 1978), pp. 104—106.
22. T.R., The Rough Riders (New York: Scribner, 1899), pp. 104