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19. Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (New York: Da Capo, 1992), p. 5.
20. Elliott Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt Senior (February 20, 1876) in Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (ed.), Hunting Big Game in the Eighties, p. 20.
21. Kathleen Dalton, Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (New York: Knopf, 2002), pp. 58–61.
22. Francis Parkman, Oregon Trail (New York: Charles E. Merrill, 1910). Originally published in 1849 as The California and Oregon Trail, though Parkman had never visited California. Later he denounced that title as a “publisher’s trick” designed to increase sales.
23. T.R. quoted in Independent (November 24, 1892), Mem. Ed. 14, p. 286.
24. T.R., “Midwest Tramp Diary” (August 17, 1880).
25. William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis Chicago and the Great West (New York: Norton, 1991), p. 19.
26. Washington Irving, A Tour on the Prairies (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1956). Originally published as part of The Crayon Miscellany, 3 vols. (Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835).
27. T.R. to Anna Roosevelt (August 22, 1880).
28. T.R., “Midwest Tramp Diary” (August 19, 1880).
29. T.R., The Wilderness Hunter (New York and London: Putnam, 1893), p. 450.
30. T.R. to Anna Roosevelt (August 22, 1880).
31. T.R. to Martha Bulloch Roosevelt (August 25, 1880).
32. Ibid.
33. T.R., “Midwest Tramp Diary” (August 24, 1880).
34. T.R. to Corinne Roosevelt (September 12, 1880).
35. T.R., “Midwest Tramp Diary” (August 27, 1880).
36. Vachel Lindsay, “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight,” in The Congo and Other Poems (New York: Macmillan, 1914).
37. History of Western Iowa: Its Settlement and Growth (Sioux City, Iowa: Western, 1882), p. 505.
38. T.R., “Midwest Tramp Diary” (September 5, 1880).
39. History of Western Iowa, p. 534.
40. T.R., “Midwest Tramp Diary” (September 8, 1880).
41. Emily Dickinson, “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” (number 986, “The Snake”), Springfield Republican (February 14, 1866).
42. T.R. to Liberty Hyde Bailey (August 10, 1908),
43. T.R. to Corinne Roosevelt (September 12, 1880) in Letters, Vol. 1, p. 46. Also in Corinne Roosevelt, My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921), p. 114.
44. “Residential Notes” (Visitors’ Center, Fargo-Morehead Convention and Visitors’ Bureau, 2008).
45. Bruce Watson, “World’s Unlikeliest Bestseller,” Smithsonian (August 2005).
46. “Red River State Park” (Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, 2008). (Pamphlet.)
47. T.R., “Midwest Tramp Diary” (September 14, 1880).
48. Ibid. (September 24, 1880).
49. Ibid. (September 21, 1880).
50. Ibid. (September 22 and 23, 1880).
51. Thomas L. Altherr and John F. Reiger, “Academic Historians and Hunting: A Call for More and Better Scholarship,” Environmental History Review, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Autumn 1995), pp. 39–56.
52. “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: Part II,” in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: Hunting Trips on the Prairie and in the Mountains (New York and London: Putnam, 1902), p. 121. (Originally printed by Putnam, 1885.)
53. “History of Cattle Ranching: Cattle Industry,” Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, Stanford University.
54. T.R., “Midwest Tramping Diary” (September 30, 1880).
55. H. W. Brands, T.R.: The Romantic (New York: Basic Books, 1997), pp. 108–09.
56. T.R. Private Diaries, 1878–1885 (October 27, 1880).
57. Ibid. (March 24, 1881).
58. T.R., “Sou’-Sou’-Southerly,” Introduction by John Rousmaniere, pp. 70–75. Also see D. J. Philippon, “Theodore Roosevelt’s ‘Sou-Sou’-Southerly’: An Unappreciated Nature Essay,” North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Winter 1997), pp. 83–92.
59. T.R., “Sou’-Sou’-Southerly,” Gray’s Sporting Journal, Vol. 13, Issue 3 (Fall 1988), p. 75. (Originally written in March 1881, the article in Gray’s includes, as noted above, a brief introduction by John Rousmaniere.)
60. Ibid.
61. Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 224.
62. T.R. Honeymoon Diary (July 5, 1881).
63. T.R. to Bill Sewall (September 5, 1881).
64. T.R. to Anna Roosevelt (September 5, 1881).
65. Edward Whymper, The Ascent of the