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29. Don Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill (Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 1960), p. 419.
30. Nathan Miller, Theodore Roosevelt: A Life (New York: William Morrow, 1992), p. 344.
31. Stefan Lorant, The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Doubleday, 1959), p. 335.
32. Robert B. Roosevelt to Charles Hallock (July 1900), R.B.R. Papers, TRA—Oyster Bay. (Thanks to the late John A. Gable for providing me a copy of this fascinating note.)
33. Lorant, The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 335.
34. David S. Barry, Forty Years in Washington (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1924), p. 246.
35. T.R. to Senator Marcus A. Hanna, quoted in Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Time Shown in His Own Letters, pp. 139–140.
36. T.R. to the National Irrigation Congress (November 16, 1900).
37. T.R. to Percy S. Lansdowne (December 7, 1900).
38. T.R. to Frederick Courteney Selous (November 23, 1900).
39. T.R. to Edward Sanford Martin (November 26, 1900).
40. T.R. to Elihu Root (December 5, 1900).
41. T.R. to Philip Bathell Stewart (December 6, 1900).
42. Frank Donaldson Biography, Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, University of Maryland, College Park.
43. Clara Barton, The Red Cross: A History of This Remarkable International Movement in the Interest of Humanity (Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon, 1898), p. 617.
44. “Roosevelt at Home,” New York Times (October 17, 1898), p. 2; and “History of Red Crags” (courtesy of Red Crags Bed and Breakfast).
45. T.R., The Wilderness Hunter, (New York: Putnam, 1893), p. 344.
46. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, p. 2.
47. Because the White River National Forest was more than 1 million acres, as president Roosevelt, capitulating to developers in Meeker, reduced the size by 61,000 acres in 1902 and 159,000 acres in 1904. U.S. Department of Agriculture History File on White River National Forest (October 29, 2007).
48. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, pp. 2–3.
49. C. S. Forbes, “President Roosevelt,” Vermonter, Vol. 7, No. 4 (November 1901).
50. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, p. 3.
51. Ibid., pp. 3–30.
52. Ibid.
53. T.R., The Wilderness Hunter (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1893), p. 344.
54. Jeremy Johnston, “Preserving the Beasts of Waste and Desolation: Theodore Roosevelt and Predator Control in Yellowstone,” Yellowstone Science (Spring, 2002), pp. 15–16.
55. T.R. to Frederick Courteney Selous (March 8, 1901).
56. Blum, The Republican Roosevelt, p. 29.
57. Henry F. Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931), p. 241.
58. H. W. Brands, T.R.: The Last Romantic (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 407.
59. T.R. to W. H. Taft (April 26, 1901).
60. T.R. to Charles Emory Smith (April 3, 1901).
61. T.R. to Winthrop Chanler (March 8, 1901).
62. T.R. to Caspar Whitney (March 16, 1901).
63. T.R. to Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge (March 29, 1901).
64. T.R. to Hamlin Garland (April 4, 1901).
65. T.R. to C. G. Gunther’s Sons (April 23, 1901).
66. C. Hart Merriam to T.R. (May 3, 1901).
67. T.R. to Gifford Pinchot (April 16, 1901).
68. T.R. to Eugene Hale (May 13, 1901).
69. T.R. to Caspar Whitney (June 7, 1901).
70. T.R. to William Wells (June 17, 1901).
71. James B. Trefethen, Crusade for Wild-life: Highlights in Conservation Progress (Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole: and New York: Boone and Crockett, 1961), pp. 67–69.
72. Alden Sampson, “The Creating of Game Refuges,” in George Bird Grinnell (ed.), American Big Game in Its Haunts (New York: Forest and Stream, 1904).
73. T.R. to Erwin Brown (June 13, 1901).
74. T.R. to W. H. Taft (April 26, 1901).
Lorant, The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt, p. 357.
76. “Our History,” Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs (November 7, 2005). (Pamphlet.) Between 1878 and 1920 the league helped create the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Protection.
77. C. S. Forbes, “President Roosevelt,” The Vermonter (Essex Junction, Vermont), Vol. 8, No. 4 (November 1901).
78. Charlotte Mehrtens, “Chazy Reef at Isle LaMotte,” Geology of Vermont (1998). (Pamphlet.)