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21. Anna Roosevelt Cowles (ed.), Letters from Theodore to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, 1870–1918 (New York: Scribner, 1924), p. 12.
22. R. W. G. Vail, “Your Loving Friend, T.R.,” Collier’s (December 20, 1924).
23. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Superlative,” in Lectures and Biographical Sketches (Cambridge, Mass.: Edward W. Emerson, 1883), p. 139.
24. David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981), pp. 200–201.
25. Nancy Pick and Mark Sloan, The Rarest of Rare (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 16.
26. Carleton Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt: The Formative Years (New York: Scribner, 1958), pp. 137–138.
27. Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, Five Acres Too Much (New York: Harper, 1869), p. xi.
28. Jim Reis, “Pieces of the Past,” Northern Kentucky University Archives, Vol. 2, pp. 56–59. Also see Nathaniel Shaler, The First Book of Geology (Boston, Mass.: Ginn, Heath, 1884).
29. “Obituary: Nathaniel S. Shaler,” Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Vol. 38, No. 5 (1906), p. 336.
30. Donald Wilhelm, Theodore Roosevelt as an Undergraduate (Boston, Mass.: J. W. Luce, 1910), p. 35.
31. “Theodore Roosevelt, Student,” New York Times (June 12, 1907), p. 8.
32. T.R. quoted in Joshua David Hawley, Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 35–36.
33. McCullough, Mornings on Horseback, pp. 213–214.
34. T.R. to Gifford Pinchot (March 14, 1907). Library of Congress (microfilm), Series 2, Vol. 71, Real 345, p. 335.
35. Richard Welling, “My Classmate Theodore Roosevelt,” American Legion Monthly (January 1929), pp. 9–11.
36. T.R. letter quoted in Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Conservationist, p. 100. T.R.’s other ornithologist friend at Harvard was Frederic Gardiner, a graduate of the class of 1880. He later became a minister, and the love of birds became part of his sermons.
37. Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Coward, McCann, 1979), p. 90.
38. T.R., Letters from T.R. to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, 1870 to 1918 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1924), pp. 22–23. Letter to Father and Mother, April, 1879.
39. “Review of Minot’s The Land and
Game Birds of New England,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (April 1877), p. 772.
40. T.R. journal (June 23, 1877). Also see Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, pp. 90–91.
41. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (New York: Scribner, 1905), p. 339.
42. C. Hart Merriam writing in Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Society (April 1878). Quoted in Paul Russell Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist (New York: Harper, 1956), p. 18.
43. For biogaphical information on C. Hart Merriam see Keir B. Sterling, Last of the Naturalists: The Career of C. Hart Merriam (New York: Arno Press, 1977), and “Dr. Merriam, Hamed Natural Scientist, D.C.S,” Washington Post, March 21, 1942, p. 9.
44. Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Conservationist, pp. 102–103.
45. T.R., “Small Country Neighbors,” Scribner’s Magazine (October 1907) Vol. XLII, No. 4.
46. “Senator Hill’s Condition,” New York Times (July 28, 1882), p. 1.
47. Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, pp. 147–148.
48. T.R. Boyhood Diaries (December 25, 1877).
49. Nathan Miller, Theodore Roosevelt: A Life (New York: Morrow, 1992), p. 81.
50. T.R., An Autobiography, p. 26.
51. Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1967), pp. 88–90.
52. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, p. 322.
53. McCullough, Mornings on Horseback, p. 205.
54. Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 109.
55. “Deer and Caribou in Maine: From the Bangor Commercial, Jan. 20,” New York Times (January 29, 1888). The Bangor Commercial reported that Mr. H. O. Stanley, one of the fish commissioners, said that deer and caribou were so plentiful in Maine that hunting permits should be allowed.
56. T.R., “My Debt to Maine,” in Maine, My State (Lewiston, Maine: Journal Printshop, 1919), p. 17. Also see “Deer and Caribou