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3. T.R., An Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1913), pp. 19–20.
4. Steve Zawistowski, Companion Animals in Society (Clifton Park, N.Y.: Thomas Delmar Learning, 2008), p. 54.
5. Nancy Pick, The Rarest of the Rare: Stories behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 17.
6. Roosevelt Museum Minutes (December 26, 1873). Also quoted in Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Conservationist, pp. 6–81.
7. Roosevelt Museum Minutes (April 6, 1874).
8. Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 75.
9. T.R., An Autobiography, pp. 23–25.
10. Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (New York: Viking Adult, 2006).
11. T.R., “My Life as a Naturalist,” American Museum Journal, Vol. 18 (May 1918).
12. Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 65.
13. Pick, The Rarest of the Rare, p. 8.
14. Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, pp. 75–76.
15. Jesse Merritt, “A Brief History of the Town of Oyster Bay,” Oyster Bay Historical Society (July 2003).
16. John Hammond, “The Early Settlement of Oyster Bay,” Freeholder: The Oyster Bay Historical Society (September 2003).
17. John Rather, “Notable ‘Firsts,’” New York Times (September 28, 1997).
18. T.R. Boyhood Diaries (1874–1876), Houghton Library, Harvard University.
19. T.R., “My Life as a Naturalist.”
20. Roderick Frazier Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 4th ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001), pp. 1–3.
21. Aldo Leopold, “The Wilderness and Its Place in Forest Recreational Policy,” Journal of Forestry, Vol. 19 (1921), p. 719.
22. Patricia Nelson Limerick, Something in the Soil (New York: Norton, 2000), p. 277.
23. Wilderness Act of 1964 (16 U.S.C. 1131–1136, 78 Stat. 890)—Public Law 88–577 (approved September 3, 1964), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Archives.
24. “Roosevelt’s Boyhood Life in Adirondacks Is Recalled by Guide,” Adirondack Enterprise (January 28, 1930). Special thanks to Michele Tucker, Curator of the Adirondack Research Room in the Saranac Lake Free Library, Saranac Lake, N.Y.
25. T.R., “Journal of a Trip to the Adirondacks.”
26. T.R., “My Life as a Naturalist.”
27. T.R., “Notes on the Fauna of the Adirondack Mountains.”
28. Paul W. B. Joslin, “Movements and Home Sites of Timber Wolves in Algonquin Park,” American Zoologist (1969), pp. 279–288.
29. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1st ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964), p. 490. (Facsimile.)
30. Anthony DePalma, “A Rising Number of Birds at Risk,” New York Times (December 1, 2007).
31. Fred J. Alsop, Birds of North America—Eastern Region (New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2001), pp. 545–550.
32. Mayne Reid, The Boy Hunters, Or Adventures in Search of a White Buffalo (London: David Bogue, Fleet Street, 1852), pp. 8–9.
33. Janet E. Buerger, “Ultima Thule: American Myth, Frontier, and the Artist-Priest in Early American Photography,” American Art, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Winter 1992), pp. 82–103.
34. Robert M. Utley, A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific (New York: Holt, 1997), pp. 156–285.
35. Institute for Government Research, The U.S. Geological Survey: Its History, Activities, and Organization (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press, 1919), p. 9.
36. Clarence King, U.S. Geological Survey 1st Annual Report (1880), p. 4. Also quoted in “The Four Great Surveys of the West,” United States Geological Survey, C1050 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Geological Survey, Department of Interior, 2000).
37. William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West (New York: Knopf, 1966), pp. xiii—xiv.
38. Ibid. Also “History of Yosemite” Files, Yosemite National Park Archive, California.
39. Lary M. Dilsaver, America’s National Park System: The Critical Documents (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994), p. 28.
40. Stacey Bredhoff, American Originals (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001), p. 58.
41. Ira N. Gabrielson, Wildlife Refuges