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41. T.R., Letters, Vol. II, p. 843. Also see Brands, T.R.: The Last Romantic (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 346.

42. T.R. to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (June 15, 1898).

43. Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (New York: Macmillan, 1902), p. 334.

44. Kathleen Dalton, Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (New York: Knopf, 2002), p. 173.

45. T.R., The Rough Riders (New York: Scribner, 1899), 1905 reprint, p. 73.

46. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 2nd revision (London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1890), p. 54.

47. Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children, p. 16.

48. Nathaniel Lande, Dispatches From the Front: A History of the American War Correspondent (New York: Henry Holt, 1995), p. 151.

49. T.R., The Rough Riders, pp. 15–16.

50. Ibid., “Appendix A: Muster-Out Roll.”

51. Edward Marshall, The Story of the Rough Riders (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1899), p. 127.

52. John Hay letter to T.R. (July 27, 1898), quoted in “Credit ‘Splendid Little War’ to John Hay,” New York Times (July 9, 1991), p. A18.

53. Davis, Badge of Courage, pp. 259–261.

54. T.R. to William Rufus Shafter (August 3, 1898).

55. Jeff Heatley (ed.), Bully! Colonel Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and Camp Wikoff (Montauk, N.Y.: Montauk Historical Society, 1998), pp. 55–94.

56. Marshall, The Story of the Rough Riders, p. 23.

57. Cara Blessley Lowe, “Introducing Cougar,” in Marc Bekoff and Cara Blessley Lowe (eds.), Listening to Cougar (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2007), p. 5.

58. “The Rough Riders Land at Montauk,” New York Times (August 16, 1898), p. 1.

59. Marshall, The Story of the Rough Riders, p. 24.

60. T.R., The Rough Riders, p. 222.

61. T.R. to his children (June 6, 1898).

62. N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn (New York: HarperCollins, 1968), pp. 14–20.

63. T.R., The Rough Riders, p. 222.

64. Robert C. V. Meyers, Theodore Roosevelt: Patriot and Statesman (Philadelphia, Pa.: Ziegler, 1902), p. 284.

65. Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children (New York: Scribner, 1919), pp. 15–16.

66. Author interview with James Stringer (July 15, 2008), Santa Fe, N.M. (Stringer is the great-grandson of Cuba’s later owner, Samuel Black.)

67. Heatley (ed.), Bully! p. 485.

68. T.R., The Rough Riders, pp. 221–223.

69. Albert Smith, Two Reels and a Crank (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1952), p. 57.

70. T.R. to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (June 27, 1898).

71. Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 643.

72. Stephen Crane, “Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, Loss Due to a Gallant Blunder,” New York World (June 26, 1898).

73. Virgil Carrington Jones, Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971), p. 6.

74. T.R. to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (June 15, 1898).

75. T.R., The Rough Riders, p. 92.

76. Ibid., pp. 104–105.

77. Ibid.

78. T.R., “Kidd’s Social Evolution,” The North American Review (July 1895). Also included in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt (Nation Edition), Vol. XIII (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926), pp. 223–241.

79. Samuels and Samuels, Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan, p. 296. Also see John M. Blum, The National Experience (New York: Harcourt, Brace, World, 1963), p. 495.

80. T.R., The Winning of the West, Presidential Edition (New York: Putnam, 1889), p. vii.

81. Patrick Sharp, “The Darwinist Frontier,” in Savage Perils.

82. T.R., The Rough Riders, p. 15.

83. Robert Gearty, “Park Is Teddy Terrain; Renaming in Montauk for Roosevelt,” New York Daily News (January 4, 1998).

84. Michael Pollak, “Screen Grab; Remembering Rough Rider Who Was a President,” New York Times (February 1, 2001). I was one of fourteen historians who had written President Bill Clinton a letter on March 31, 1999 urging the president to award T.R. the medal he so richly deserved. Others included Stephen E. Ambrose, John A. Gable, Nathan Miller, Edmund and Sylvia Morris, William N. Tischin, and Geoffrey C. Ward. Also see “Medal of Honor Awarded to Theodore Roosevelt,” Theodore Roosevelt Administration Journal, Vol. XXIV, No. 2 (2001), pp. 3–9.

85. “An Exciting