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6. George Bird Grinnell, When Buffalo Ran (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1920), p. 22. Also Richard C. Rattenbury, Hunting the American West: The Pursuit of Big Game for Life, Profit, and Sport, 1800–1900 (Missoula, Mont.: Boone and Crockett Club, 2008), p. 207.
7. “The Wichita National Forest and Game Preserve,” Miscellaneous Circular No. 36, USDA (May 1925).
8. Alfred Runte, Trains of Discovery: Western Railroads and the National Parks (Niwot, Colo.: Roberts Rinehart, 1990), pp. 19–21. Reprint.
9. Andrew C. Isenberg, The Destruction of Bison: An Environmental History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 177.
10. Raymond Gorges, Ernest Harold Baynes: Naturalist and Crusader (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928), pp. 74–75. Also Joel Berger and Carol Cunningham, Bison: Mating and Conservation in Small Populations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), p. 29.
11. Congressional Record, 59 Cong. 1 Sess; Pt. I, p. 103.
12. Officially the bison were protected by proclamation (June 2, 1905, 34 Stat. 3062) by President Theodore Roosevelt, in Otis H. Gates (comp.), Laws Applicable to the United States Department of Agriculture (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913, rev. 1912), p. 111.
13. David Dary, The Buffalo Book: The Full Saga of the American Animal (Chicago, Ill.: Swallow, 1974), pp. 233–236.
14. Jack Dan Haley, “A History of the Establishment of the Wichita National Forest and Game Preserve, 1901–1908,” unpublished master’s thesis, University of Oklahoma, 1973.
15. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (New York: Macmillan, 1902), p. 102.
16. Neeley, The Last Comanche Chief, p. 143.
17. “History Files,” Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, Refuge Headquarters, Indiahoma, Okla.
18. Wichita Mountains (Albuquerque: Southwest Natural and Cultural Heritage Association, 1992). This monograph was compiled by the staff at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Reserve.
19. John R. (Jack) Abernathy, In Camp with Theodore Roosevelt, or the Life of John R. (Jack) Abernathy (Oklahoma City: Times-Journal, 1933).
20. Jon T. Coleman, “Foreword,” in John R. Abernathy, Catch ’Em Alive Jack (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006), p. v.
21. Matthew Rex Cox, “Roosevelt’s Wolf Hunt.” (Advance article from the Oklahoma Encyclopedia.)
22. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, p. 111.
23. “President Off to Hunt; Taft Sits on Lid,” New York Times (April 4, 1905), p. 1.
24. W. LaBarre, The Peyote Cult (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989).
25. William T. Hagan, Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993), p. 57.
26. “Star House,” Prairie Lore, Vol. 41, No. 2, Book 15.
27. Neeley, The Last Comanche Chief, p. 199.
28. “Buffalo Hunt Is Held: Game Shot from Auto,” New York Times (June 11, 1903), p. 5.
29. “Killed by Roosevelt’s Train,” New York Times (April 5, 1905), p. 2.
30. “Roosevelt Says He’s a Typical President,” New York Times (April 6, 1905), p. 2.
31. “Col. Roosevelt Greets His Old Rough Riders,” New York Times (April 8, 1905), p. 1.
32. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, p. 100.
33. David Minor, “Samuel Burk Burnett,” The Handbook of Texas (online; January 9, 2008, update).
34. Time (May 22, 1939).
35. “Dr. Lambert Dies; Narcotics Expert,” New York Times (May 10, 1939), p. 23.
36. Frederick Enterprise (April 15, 1905). (Summary story.)
37. Abernathy, Catch ’Em Alive Jack, p. 100.
38. W. M. Draper Lewis, The Life of Theodore Roosevelt (Philadelphia and Chicago: John C. Winston, 1919), p. 177.
39. Frederick Enterprise (April 15, 1905).
40. “President in Wild,” Washington Post (April 10, 1905), p. 1.
41. Abernathy, Catch ’Em Alive Jack, pp. 103–104.
42. Coleman, “Foreward,” in Abernathy, Catch ’Em Alive Jack, p. ix.
43. Caire et al., Mammals of Oklahoma, pp. 281–285.
44. “Why a Refuge,” Wichita