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45. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, p. 101.

46. Abernathy, Catch ’Em Alive Jack, p. 102.

47. Francis Haines, The Buffalo (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001), pp. 200–201.

48. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, p. 103.

49. “President in Foot Races,” New York Times (April 13, 1905), p. 1.

50. George Bird Grinnell, When the Buffalo Ran (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920), p. 82.

51. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, p. 104.

52. David E. Lantz, The Relation of Coyotes to Stock Raising in the West (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905).

53. Abernathy, Catch ’Em Alive Jack, p. 115.

54. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, pp. 113–114.

55. Abernathy, Catch ’Em Alive Jack, p. 127.

56. Abernathy, Catch ’Em Alive Jack, p. 115.

57 Frederick Enterprise (April 15, 1905). (Clipping at the Wichita Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.)

58. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, p. 116.

59. Ibid., p. 106.

60. Haines, The Buffalo, p. 6.

61. Neeley, The Last Comanche, pp. 220–221.

62. Clyde L. Jackson and Grace Jackson, Quanah Parker: The Last Chief of the Comanches—A Study in Frontier History (New York: Exposition, 1963), p. 129.

63. Ibid., p. 128.

64. Alice Marriot and Carol K. Rachlin, American Indian Mythology (New York: Mentor, 1972), p. 170.

65. Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge (Albuquerque, N.M.: Southwest Natural and Cultural Heritage Association, 1997).

66. Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952), p. 206.

67. T.R., Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1886), p. 260.

68. Tenth Annual Report of the Bison Society, 1915–1916 (New York: American Bison Society, 1916), pp. 20–22. Also Robert Dorman, It Happened in Oklahoma (New York: Morris Book Publishing, 2006), pp. 53–56.

69. Abernathy, Catch ’Em Alive Jack, p. 126.

70. “Speeding to the Rockies,” Washington Post (April 14, 1905), p. 3.

71. “President Appeals to Press,” New York Times (April 15, 1905), p. 1.

72. “Orville H. Platt Dies,” New York Times (April 22, 1905), p. 1.

73. Douglas C. McChristian, “The Great Health Mecca and Summer Resort,” Historical Resources Study (June 2003), Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Sulphur, Okla. (Unpublished.)

74. Reports of the Department of Interior 1919, Vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1919), p. 1025.

75. Louis A. Coolidge, An Old Fashioned Senator: Orville H. Platt of Connecticut (New York: Putnam, 1910), p. 623.

76. Edward E. Dale, Jr., “The Grasslands of Platt National Park, Oklahoma,” Southwestern Naturalist, Vol. 4, No. 2 (September 15, 1959), pp. 45–60.

77. Platt Historical District File, Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Sulphur, Okla.

78. “The President’s Return,” New York Times (April 24, 1905), p. 10.

79. “President Cheered at Open-Air Church,” New York Times (May 1, 1905), p. 1.

80. “Skip,” Washington Post (April 11, 1907), p. 12.

81. T.R. to Kermit Roosevelt (May 25, 1905).

82. William H. Harbaugh, The Theodore Roosevelts’ Retreat in Southern Albemarle: Pine Knot 1905–1908 (Charlottesville, Va.: Albemarle County Historical Society, 1993).

83. T.R., A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open (New York: Scribner, 1916), app. B, p. 366.

84. Ibid., pp. 96–97.

85. Harbaugh, The Theodore Roosevelts’ Retreat in Southern Albemarle, p. 4.

86. T.R. to Kermit Roosevelt, June 11, 1905.

87. Ibid.

88. Sylvia Jukes Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady (New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1980), p. 3.

89. T.R. to George Herbert Locke (September 27, 1905).

90. Abernathy, Catch ’Em Alive Jack, p 149.

91. “Sat in President’s Chair,” New York Times (February 10, 1906), p. 1. (Special to the Times.)

92. T.R., Outdoors Pastimes of an American Hunter, p. 124.

93. T.R., Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, p. 287.

94. T.R. to John Burroughs (October 2, 1905).

95. “Strenuous Sport,” New York Times Book Review (November 4, 1905).

96.