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97. Abernathy, Catch ’Em Alive Jack, p. 168.
98. Ibid., p. 172.
99. T.R. to John Abernathy (June 4, 1906).
100. Abernathy, Catch ’Em Alive Jack, p. 173.
101. T.R. to Clarence Don Clarke (December 8, 1905).
102. T.R. “Wichita Mountains,” presidential proclamation (June 2, 1905). See John T. Wolley and Bernard Peters, The American Presidency Project. (Online: University of Santa Barbara–California, host.)
103. Caspar Whitney, “The View-Point,” Outing Magazine (April 1907), p. 102.
104. “American Bison Society,” Saving Wildlife (September 2007).
105. J. Alden Loring, “The Wichita Buffalo Range” in Tenth Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society for the Year 1905, pp. 180–200.
106. “Roosevelt to Pay His Hunt Expenses,” New York Times (December 6, 1908), p. 1.
107. Betsy Rosenbaum, “Buffalo, or Is It Bison?” Courtesy of Outdoor Recreation Planner, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Archive (Courtesy of Jeff Rupert.)
108. Tenth Annual Report of the Bison Society, 1915–1916 (New York: American Bison Society, 1916), pp. 20–22.
109. Sanborn quoted in John G. Mitchell, “The Way We Shipped Off the Buffalo,” Wildlife Conservation (January–February 1993), pp. 46–50.
110. Elwin R. Sanborn, “An Object Lesson in Bison Preservation: the Wichita National Bison Herd after Five Years,” Zoological Society Bulletin (Wildlife Protection Number), Vol. 16, No. 57 (May 1913), pp. 990–993. R. B. Thomas, “The Wichita National Forest and Game Preserve” (1936), in Miscellaneous Papers of the W.P.A. Project File, Oklahoma Historical Society Library. Clara Ruth, “Preserves and Ranges Maintained for Buffalo and Other Big Game” (Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Biological Survey, Wildlife Research and Management Leaflet BS-95, September 1937), pp. 1–21.
111. Harry B. Candell, “History of the Bison Herd,” Wichita Mountain Wildlife Reserve, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Archives, Indiahoma, Okla. (March 19, 2009).
112. “Traditional Uses of Bison” (Rapid City, S. Dak.: Intertribal Bison Cooperative and Administration for Native Americans, 2008).
113. Author interview with Jeff Rupert, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Cache, Oklahoma.
114. Rush quoted in Tom McHugh, The Time of the Buffalo (New York: Knopf, 1972), p. 303.
115. McHugh, The Time of the Buffalo, p. 303.
116. James B. Trefethen, An American Crusade for Wildlife (New York: Winchester Press, 1975), pp. 95–96.
117. Isenberg, The Destruction of the Bison, p. 165.
118. Frank Graham, Jr., “Where Wildlife Rules,” Audubon (June 2003).
119. Jim Pisarowicz, “Wildlife Management” (April 29, 2006), Wind Cave National Park Archives, Hot Springs, South Dakota.
120. William Temple Hornaday, Annual
Report of the American Bison Society (1911), p. 32.
121. Shannon Peterson, Acting for Endangered Species (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002), p. 10.
122. Ellenbrook, Outdoor and Trail Guide to the Wichita Mountains of Southwest Oklahoma, pp. 20–21.
123. Betsy Rosenbaum, “Buffalo, or Is It Bison?”
124. Caire et al., Mammals of Oklahoma, p. 370.
125. “President and Mrs. Bush Host Celebration in Honor of Theodore Roosevelt’s 150th Birthday” (October 27, 2008). Transcript. Laura Bush told the story in the East Room, Office of the Press Secretary, Washington, D.C.
126. Stacy A. Cordery, Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker (New York: Viking, 2007), p. 456.
22: THE NATIONAL MONUMENTS OF 1906
1. T.R. to Kermit Roosevelt, March 11, 1906, quoted in Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children (New York: Scribner, 1919), pp. 152–153.
2. Ray H. Mattison, “Devils Tower” (National Park Service, 1955), Devils Tower Wyoming Archive. George L. San Miguel, “How Is Devils Tower a Sacred Site to American Indians” (U.S. National Park Service, August 1994).
3. N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976), p. 8.
4. Richard I. Dodge, The Black Hills