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37. T.R. to Albert Bierstadt (February 7, 1893), Joseph M. Roebling Collection of the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, Laramie.
38. Albert Bierstadt, “A Moose Hunt” (February–April 1893), Roebling Collection of the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. Attached to the original essay is T.R.’s Sagamore Hill calling card.
39. Eric Nye and Sheri Hoem (eds.), “Big Game on the Editor’s Desk: Roosevelt and Bierstadt’s Tale of the Hunt,” New England Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 3 (September 1987).
40. T.R. to Albert Bierstadt (June 8, 1893), Roebling Collection of the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming. But by not blowing the whistle on Bierstadt, by allowing his fib to stand, T.R. had protected a friend. More than a decade later, when T.R. was in the White House, Grinnell wrote up the moose story in his American Big Game in Its Haunts, in a way the president would have approved, claiming that the sixty-four-and-a-half-inch antlers were “in the possession” of the late painter.
41. Grinnell, “In Buffalo Days,” p. 169.
42. G. Edward White, The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience: The West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt and Owen Wister (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1968).
43. “Gen. Anderson Dead at University Club,” New York Times (March 8, 1915), P. 9.
44. T.R., “Coursing the Prongbuck,” in American Big-Game Hunting, p. 129.
45. T.R., “Literature of American Big-Game Hunting” in American Big-Game Hunting, p. 325. (Unsigned.)
46. Reiger, American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation, pp. 150–151.
47.
Dick Baldwin, “Trapshooting with D. Lee Braum and the Remington Pros,” (Remington Vandalia, Ohio: Trapshooting Hall of Fame and Museum, 1967).
48. “Trap Shooting in Saratoga,” New York Times (May 10, 1893), p. 3. The New York Times used to promote trapshooting in the 1880s as a way to downplay the mass killing of birds. While the sports page would mention all-day shoots with live birds in places like the League Island Gun Club of Philadelphia, it gave more ink to trapshooting events.
49. George Bird Grinnell, “Editorial,” Forest and Stream (July 14, 1881). Also see William B. Mershon, The Passenger Pigeon (New York: Outing, 1907), pp. 223–225.
50. Reiger, American Sportsmen and the Origins of Conservation, pp. 150–151.
51. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, My Brother Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Scribner, 1921), p. 127.
52. T.R., “Preface,” in The Wilderness Hunter, p. xiii.
53. T.R., “Preface,” in The Wilderness Hunter, p. xiv. (The preface was written in June 1893 at Sagamore Hill.)
54. T.R., The Wilderness Hunter, p. 174.
55. “Mr. Roosevelt’s Americanism, New York Times (August 6, 1893), p. 19.
56. “New Publications: The Wilderness Hunter,” Forest and Stream, Vol. 41, No. 4 (July 29, 1893).
57. “Dangers of Moose Hunting,” Youth’s Companion (November 23, 1893).
58. T.R. to Hoke Smith (April 7, 1894).
59. Denis Tilden Lynch, Grover Cleveland: A Man Four-Square (New York: Van Rees, 1932), p. 191.
60. “Hoke Smith’s Appointment,” New York Times (February 16, 1893), p. 5.
61. G. Michael McCarthy, “The Forest Reserve: Colorado under Cleveland and McKinley,” Journal of Forest History (April 1976), p. 80.
62. U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual Report, 1893 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894), p. 555.
63. Captain George S. Anderson to Secretary of Interior Hoke Smith (March 17, 1894), Vol. V (Letters Sent) National Archives, pp. 1–9, Yellowstone National Park. Quoted in H. Duane Hampton, “U.S. Army and the National Parks,” Forest History (October 1966), p. 14.
64. “Save the Buffalo,” Forest and Stream, Vol. 42, No. 15 (1894). (Editorial.)
65. “The Lacey Act of 1894,” U.S., Statutes at Large, Vol. 28, p. 73.
66. Mary Annette Gallager, “John F. Lacey: A Study in Organizational Politics,” PhD dissertation, University of Arizona, 1970.
67. Samuel Johnson Crawford, Kansas in the Sixties (Chicago, Ill.: A. C. McClurg, 1911), p. 146.
68. “John F. Lacey: Champion of Birds