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15. T.R. quoted in Aubrey L. Haines, The Yellowstone Story: A History of Our First National Park (Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1977), p. 81.
16. Donald Worster, Nature’s Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 260. Also Eric Busch of University of Texas at Austin (a PhD student in history) helped me formulate this idea. He is a cutting-edge new environmental historian whose expertise pertains to the Rocky Mountains.
17. “President’s Train Ready,” New York Times (April 1, 1903), p. 8.
18. John Burroughs, Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), p. viii.
19. “Snow in Yellowstone Park,” New York Times (March 24, 1903), p. 5.
20. “Invites John Burroughs,” New York Times (March 16, 1903), p. 1.
21. New York Times (April 29, 1903). (Obituary.)
22. “Wyoming for Roosevelt,” New York Times (March 18, 1903), p. 3.
23. “Rival Towns Upset by the President’s Trip,” New York Times (March 24, 1903), p. 5.
24. “A Bear for the President,” New York Times (March 25, 1903), p. 1.
25. “Cowboys to Greet President,” New York Times (April 2, 1903), p. 1.
26. “Dynamite Salute Planned,” New York Times (April 6, 1903), p. 1.
27. “The President’s Progress,” New York Times (April 2, 1903), p. 8.
28. T.R. to John Burroughs (March 14, 1903).
29. Burroughs, Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt, pp. 5–6.
30. T.R. to Dr. C. Hart Merriam (March 31, 1903).
31. Howells quoted in William M. Gibson, Theodore Roosevelt among Humorists (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980), p. 21.
32. John Burroughs, “Camping with President Roosevelt,” The Atlantic Monthly, May 1906 (Vol. 97, No. 5).
33. “President Discusses the Monroe Doctrine,” New York Times (April 3, 1903), p. 1.
34. H. Paul Jeffers, Roosevelt the Explorer: Teddy Roosevelt’s Amazing Adventures as a Naturalist, Conservationist, and Explorer (New York: Taylor Trade, 2003).
35. “Dooleyized’ the President: University of Chicago Students Adopt a Popular Song in Welcoming Mr. Roosevelt,” New York Times (April 3, 1903), p. 1.
36. Paul Schullery, “Buffalo Jones and the Bison Herd in Yellowstone,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Vol. 26, No. 3 (July 1986), pp. 40–51.
37. T.R. to Clinton Hart Merriam, April 16, 1903.
38. T.R. to Lieutenant General S. B. M. Young (January 22, 1908), Yellowstone Reference Library, Yellowstone National Park.
39. Brodie Farquehar, “Centennial Anniversary of Visit This Month,” Caspar Star Tribune (April 1, 2003), p. C1.
40. T.R. to C. Hart Merriam (April 22, 1903).
41. Burroughs, Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt, p. 8.
42. Ibid., pp. 26, 29.
43. Ibid., pp. 111, 60.
44. “President Kills Lion in Yellowstone Park,” New York Times (April 12, 1903), p. 1.
45. “President on the Move,” New York Times (April 15, 1903), p. 1.
46. Burroughs, Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt, p. 66.
47. T.R. to Dr. C. Hart Merriam (April 22, 1903).
48. Haines, The Yellowstone Story, Vol. 2, pp. 229–237.
49. “Roosevelt Delights in Yellowstone,” Caspar Star Tribune (April 11, 2003), p. C1.
50. “The President in the Park,” Forest and Stream, Vol. 60, No. 18 (May 2, 1903).
51. Erin H. Turner, It Happened in Yellowstone (Guilford, Conn.: Morris, 2001), p. 47.
52. “The President in the Park.”
53. “Resumes His Tour,” Washington Post (April 25, 1903), p. 1.
54. Liz Nelson, “The Hermit of Ravenswood,” Special Places, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Fall 2006), pp. 8–10.
55. T.R. to George Bird Grinnell (April 24, 1903).
56. Morison (ed.), T.R. in The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, Vol. 3.
57. Burroughs, Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt, pp. 59–60.
58. T.R. to Gifford Pinchot (April 9, 1906), Series 2, Vol. 62, Reel 241, p. 444.
59. R. Douglas Hurt, “Forestry on the Great Plains, 1902–1904,” Lecture for Kansas State University’s People, Prairies, and Plains, N.E.H. Summer Teachers’ Institute on Environmental History (July-August