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79. “President’s Landau Struck by a Car,” New York Times (September 4, 1902), p. 1.
80. Bob Terrell, “Roosevelt’s Visit a ‘Red-Letter Day’ in Asheville’s History,” Asheville Citizen-Times (April 9, 2000). Also see “Last Day in Dixie,” The Washington Post, September 11, 1902), p. 1.
81. Ovid Butler (ed.), Carl Alwin Schenck, The Birth of Forestry in America: Biltmore Forestry School, 1898–1913 (Santa Cruz, Calif.: Forestry History Society, 1974).
82. George W. Vanderbilt letter, Biltmore Company Archives, Presidential Visit File, Asheville, N.C.
83. T.R. to Kermit Roosevelt (September 1908).
84. Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist, pp. 89–99.
85. T.R. to John Pitcher (October 24, 1902).
86. Nature’s Economy, pp. 125–129.
87. Ibid., pp. 167–171.
16: THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI BEAR HUNT AND SAVING THE PUERTO RICAN PARROT
1. “Coal Miners Declare the Big Strike Off; Arbitration Plan Accepted by a Unanimous Vote,” New York Times (October 22, 1902), p. 1.
2. Paul Schullery, American Bears: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt (Boulder, Colo.: Roberts Rinehart, 1997), p. 10.
3. “President on Hunting Trip Near Bull Run, Virginia,” New York Times (November 2, 1902), p. 5.
4. William F. Holmes, The White Chief: James Kimble Vardaman (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), pp. 105–111.
5. “Lily White’ Plan to Boom Mr. Hanna,” New York Times (November 17, 1902), p. 1.
6. T.R. to Stuyvesant Fish (November 6, 1902).
7. Lewis L. Gould, The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991), p. 42.
8. Clarence Gohdes, Hunting in the Old South: Original Narratives of the Hunters (Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1967), p xii.
9. Minor Ferris Buchanan, Holt Collier: His Life, His Roosevelt Hunts, and the Origin of the Teddy Bear (Jackson, Miss.: Centennial, 2002), p. 157. This is a fine biography. Buchanan, a litigation attorney in Jackson, Mississippi, helped me understand the great Mississippi bear hunt of 1902 in many ways. All my writing on Holt Collier has been influenced by his research.
10. Author interview with Shelby Foote (April 6, 1997), New Orleans.
11. Buchanan, Holt Collier, p. xiii.
12. Ibid., pp. 3–150.
13. “A Brief History of African Americans and Forests,” Celebrating a Century of Service, A Glance at the Agency’s History U.S. Forestry Service, Issue 25, Bi-Weekly Postings, U.S. Forest Service, International Programs Archives, Washington, D.C.
14. Buchanan, Holt Collier, p. 140.
15. “Bears in Combine,” Washington Post (November 18, 1902), p. 1.
16. “The President’s Sunday,” New York Times (November 17, 1902), p. 1.
17. John Parker to Judge J. M. Dickerson (February 26, 1924).
18. T.R. to Philip Bathell Stewart (November 24, 1902).
19. Author interview, Tweed Roosevelt (February 11, 1998).
20. Author interview with Tweed Roosevelt (May 17, 1999).
21. T.R. to Philip Bathell Stewart (November 24, 1902).
22. Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (New York: Random House, 2001), p. 172.
23. Buchanan, Holt Collier, pp. 179–180.
24. “Snub the President,” New York Times (November 18, 1902), p. 1.
25. Gregory Wilson, “How the Teddy Bear Got His Name,” Washington Post Potomac (November 30, 1969), pp. 33–35.
26. Douglas Brinkley, “The Myth of the Great Bear Hunt,” Oxford American, Issue 36 (November/December 2000), pp. 116–121.
27. Peter Bull, The Teddy Bear Book (New York: Random House, 1970). The information I give here is a synthesis from this work.
28. T.R. to Clifford Berryman (January 14, 1908).
29. H. Paul Jeffers, Roosevelt the Explorer: Teddy Roosevelt’s Amazing Adventures as a Naturalist, Conservationist, and Explorer (Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade, 2003), p. 125.
30. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (New York: Macmillan, 1908), p. 366. Second Edition.
31. Buchanan, Holt Collier, p. xi.
32. William Faulkner, “The Bear,” in Go Down, Moses, and Other Stories (New York: Random House, 1942).
33. T.R. to John Moulder Wilson (December 9, 1902).
34. El Yanque National Forest (Greendale,