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6. “The Maine at Havana,” New York Times (January 25, 1898), p. 6.
7. T.R. to William Sheffield Cowles (March 29, 1898).
8. Henry Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Harcourt, 2003), p. 124.
9. T.R. to William Sturgis Bigelow (March 29, 1898).
10. T.R. to Robert Bacon (April 8, 1898).
11. Daniel Henderson, “Great-Heart”: The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt, 3rd ed. (New York: Knopf, 1919), p. 62.
12. Akiko Murakata, “Theodore Roosevelt and William Sturgis Bigelow: The Story of a Friendship,” Harvard Literary Bulletin, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 1975), p. 93.
13. Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 612.
14. Mrs. Winthrop Chanler, Roman Spring (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1934), p. 285.
15. Robert Lee, Fort Meade and the Black Hills (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991), pp. 160–161.
16. Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, pp. 613–620. Also see Leonard Wood, “Roosevelt: Soldier, Statesman, and Friend” in The Rough Riders and Men of Action (New York: Scribner’s, 1926), pp. xv–xvi.
17. Marilyn Bennett, It Happened in San Antonio (Guilford, Conn.: Twodot, 2006), pp. 53–56.
18. Buckhorn Saloon Museum Archive, San Antonio, Tex.
19. T.R. to Henry Cabot Lodge (May 25, 1898).
20. Sarah Lyons Watts, Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2003), p. 163.
21. 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), pp. 149–153.
22. Harbaugh, Power and Responsibility, p. 104.
23. Michael L. Collins, That Damned
Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and the American West, 1883–1898 (New York: Peter Lang, 1989), p. 146.
24. “The Rough Riders Land at Montauk,” New York Times, (August 16, 1898), p. 1.
25. H. W. Brands, T.R.: The Last Romantic (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 344.
26. Owen Wister, “Balaam and Pedro,” Harper’s Monthly (January 1894).
27. Peggy Samuels and Harold Samuels, Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan, (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1997), p. 58.
28. Lydia Kingsmill Commander, The American Idea (New York: A. S. Barnes, 1907), p. 75.
29. Henry Castor, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders (New York: Random House, 1954), p. 45.
30. Samuels and Samuels, Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan, pp. 58–59.
31. Jack [John] Willis, Roosevelt in the Rough (New York: Ives Washburn, 1931), pp. 36–37. Reprint.
32. David H. Burton, “Theodore Roosevelt’s Social Darwinism and Views on Imperialism,” Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 26, No. 1 (January–March 1965), pp. 103–118.
33. T.R., “Social Evolution,” North American Review (July 1895). Republished in American Ideals, and Other Essays (New York: Putnam, 1897), pp. 293–317.
34. Ibid., p. 296. Also see Patrick Sharp, Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007); and John Morton Blum, “Theodore Roosevelt: The Years of Decision,” The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954), Vol. 2, p. 1486.
35. John Burroughs, “The Biological Origin of the Ruling Class,” cited in Renehan Jr., John Burroughs (Post Mills, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 1992), p. 199.
36. Edward J. Renehan Jr., John Burroughs (Post Mills, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 1992), pp. 198–200.
37. Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 630. Also see “The War: Expected Naval Battle, Firing at Cabanas,” The Observer, May 1, 1898, p. A5.
38. T.R. to Henry Cabot Lodge (June 12, 1898).
39. “Colt Machineguns in the Spanish American War,” (2008), Fort Sam Houston Museum, San Antonio, Tex.
40. William McKinley Executive Order (March 28, 1898) from the Executive Mansion; William McKinley Proclamation (May 27, 1898); William McKinley Proclamation (June 29, 1898); McKinley’s third State of the Union address, in James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789–1907, Vol. 10 (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1908), pp. 343, 253, 121.