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76. T.R. Private Diaries (June 9, 1884).
77. Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 452.
78. T.R., Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trial, p. 81.
79. H. W. Brands, T.R.: The Last Romantic (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 182.
80. T.R. to Bill Sewall (July 6, 1884), in Sewall, Bill Sewall’s Story of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 14.
81. New York Tribune (July 28, 1884).
82. T.R. to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, Chimney Butte Ranch (August 12, 1884).
83. Bill Sewall quoted in David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), p. 62.
84. Elers Koch, “Big Game in Montana from Early Historical Records,” Journal of Wildlife Management, Vol. 5, No. 4 (October 1941), pp. 357–369.
85. Don G. Despain, “Vegetation of the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming, in Relation to Substrate and Climate,” Ecological Monographs, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Summer 1973), pp. 329–355.
86. T. R. Bighorns Diary (August 21, 1884).
87. Merrifield quoted in Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 67.
88. T. R., Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, pp. 119–120.
89. T. R., The Wilderness Hunter (New York: Putnam, 1893), p. 146.
90. T. R., Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, p. 294.
91. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Archive, “Grizzly Bears” Files, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Special thanks to the Grizzly Bear Outreach Project for biological and behavioral information on grizzlies.
92. T. R., Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, p. 313.
93. Bessie Doak Haynes and Edgar Haynes, The Grizzly Bear: Portraits of Life (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966).
94. T. R., Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, pp. 158–160.
95. “The Occidental Hotel History,” Archive, Buffalo, Wyo. (June 2009).
96. T. R., Bighorns Diary (September 18–19, 1884). Fort McKinney had been established in 1878, after the Indian wars had ceased.
97. Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt, p. 487.
98. Clark, The Badlands, p. 39.
99. T. R. Bighorns Diary (October 1, 1884).
100. Elizabeth Royte, “Night Moves,”
New York Times Book Review (June 22, 2008), p. 9.
101. T. R., Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, p. 125.
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1. Roderick Frazier Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 4th ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003), pp. 152–153.
2. New York Sun (October 11, 1884). T.R. said that if it became “necessary” to make comments on Cleveland’s lapsed morals, he would “not hesitate to express them.”
3. “Cleveland’s Electoral Vote,” New York Times (November 7, 1884), p. 1.
4. T.R. to Henry Cabot Lodge (November 7, 1884).
5. Jack London, The Call of the Wild (New York: Regent, 1903), p. 67.
6. T.R., Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, p. 84.
7. T.R., The Wilderness Hunter, p. 386; T.R. Private Diaries (November 1884); and Carleton Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt: The Formative Years (New York: Scribner, 1958), p. 508.
8. T.R., Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, pp. 75–76.
9. H. W. Brands, T.R.: The Last Romantic (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 181. Also see T.R., An Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1913), p. 98. Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Coward, McCann, 1979), p. 287; Hermann Hagedorn, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1921).
10. John Burroughs, Locusts and Wild Honey (Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Osgood, 1879), p. 80.
11. T.R., Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail (New York: Century, 1888), p. 73.
12. T.R., Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, pp. 223–224.
13. Becky Lomax, “Tracking the Bighorns,” Smithsonian (March 2008), pp. 21–22.
14. T.R., Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, pp. 226–227.
15. Ibid., p. 113.
16. T.R. to Anna Roosevelt (December 14, 1884).
17. Paul Grondahl, I Rose Like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007), pp. 158–159.
18. T.R. to Bamie Roosevelt (April 29, 1885). Also see Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 300.
19. T.R., Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, p. iii.
20. Unlike most of T.R.’s books Hunting Trips of a Ranchman wasn’t serialized; it was published first in book form. Over the years, however, it was frequently reprinted in various