• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

52. T.R. to George Bird Grinnell (August 24, 1897), Boone and Crockett Club Archives, Missoula, Mont.

53. “The Cabinet Confirmed,” New York Times (March 6, 1897), p. 3.

54. Gifford Pinchot, Breaking New Ground (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1947), p. 123.

55. “The Big Federal Domain,” New York Times (November 19, 1897), p. 3.

56. Gretel Ehrlich, John Muir: Nature’s Visionary (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2000).

57. Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Agriculture and Industry of the State of Montana for the Year Ending November 30, 1898, p. 52.

58. Rexroth quoted in David Taylor, A Soul of a People (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2009), p. 133.

59. Twentieth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1898–1899; Part V—Forest Reserves (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1900), p. 143.

60. Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 554.

61. T.R. to Anna Roosevelt Cowles (November 13, 1896).

62. Nathan Miller, Theodore Roosevelt (New York: William Morrow, 1992), p. 246.

63. Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, pp. 548–563.

64. Keir B. Sterling, Last of the Naturalists: The Career of C. Hart Merriam, rev. ed. (New York: Arno, 1977), p. ix.

65. T.R. to Henry Cabot Lodge in Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist, p. 80.

66. Sterling, Last of the Naturalists.

67. “North American Bears,” New York Times (April 22, 1896), p. 14.

68. T.R. to Henry Fairfield Osborn (May 18, 1897).

69. Ibid.

70. T.R., “Social Evolution,” in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Memorial ed. (New York, 1923–1926), Vol. 14, pp. 109–128.

71. T.R., “A Layman’s Views on Specific Nomenclature,” Science (April 30, 1897), pp. 685–688.

72. Sterling, Last of the Naturalists, p. 242.

73. Ibid. Also see Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Conservationist (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1985), pp. 192–196.

74. Sterling, Last of the Naturalists, p. 176.

75. T.R. to Charles Addison Boutelle (June 22, 1897).

76. T.R. to George Bird Grinnell (August 2, 1897), Boone and Crockett Club Archive, Missoula, Mont.

77. T.R. to George Bird Grinnell (August 24, 1897).

78. Ibid.

79. T.R. to Henry Fairfield Osborn (September 14, 1897).

80. Merriam quoted in Science (May 14, 1897).

81. Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist, pp. 80–88. Also see C. Hart Merriam, “Natural History: Roosevelt’s Wapiti,” Forest and Stream, January 1, 1898, Vol. L, Issue No. 9, p. 5.

82. Dr. C. Hart Merriam, “Cervus roosevelti,” Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (December 17, 1897).

83. Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist, p. 85.

84. T.R., “Wapiti,” in Hedley Peek and Frederick George Aflalo, The Encyclopaedia of Sport Vol. II (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1898), p. 530.

85. Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist, p. 85.

86. T.R. to C. Hart Merriam (February 22, 1899).

87. T.R., “List of Books,” in Trail and Camp-Fire, p. 339.

88. Burnham quoted in Frank Graham, Jr., The Adirondacks: A Political History (New York: Knopf, 1978), p. 148.

89. Grinnell and T.R., Trail and Camp-Fire (New York: Forest and Stream, 1897) p. 153.

90. T.R., “On the Little Missouri,” in Trail and Camp-Fire, pp. 219–220.

91. George Bird Grinnell, “Introduction,” Works, Memorial Edition, Vol. 1, p. xix.

92. T.R. to John A. Merritt (December 23, 1897).

12: THE ROUGH RIDER

1. Richard H. Collin, Theodore Roosevelt, Culture, Diplomacy, and Expansion: A New View of American Imperialism (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985), p. 123.

2. Ibid, p. 120.

3. T.R. to Henry Cabot Lodge (August 10, 1886). See also Henry Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931), pp. 166–167.

4. T.R., American Naval Policy as Outlined in the Messages of the Presidents of the United States, from 1790 to Present Day (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1897).

5. Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Coward,