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26. T.R. to Kermit Roosevelt (February 23, 1908).
27. “Jewel Cave National Monument,” National Park Service Archive, Jewel Cave, South Dakota.
28. Gail Evans-Hatch and Michael Evans-Hatch, Place of Passages: Jewel Cave National Monument Historic Resource Study (Omaha, Neb.: Midwestern Regional National Park Service, 2006), pp. 173–177.
29. Ibid., p. 4.
30. “Jewel Cave National Monument, South Dakota, by the President of the United States, A Proclamation,” Box 1, Jewel Cave National Monument Archives, Mount Rushmore National Monument.
31. Ibid.
32. In fact, the Biological Survey called for the wholesale extermination of English sparrows, as they had become a menace to fruit trees and other crops from coast to coast. Report of the Chief of the Bureau of the Biological Survey for 1908 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1908), p. 9.
33. T.R. to Dr. C. Hart Merriam (March 15, 1908).
34. T.R. to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (May 23, 1908).
35. J. C. Kerbis Peterhans and T. P. Gnoske, “Man-Eaters of Tsavo,” Journal of East African Natural History, Vol. 90 (2001), pp. 1–40.
36. T.R. to Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson (March 20, 1908).
37. T.R., African Game Trails (New York: Scribner, 1909), p. ix.
38. “The Colossal Natural Bridges of Utah,” National Geographic, Vol. 15 (1904), pp. 367–369. (Author unknown.)
39. There is some controversy over the use of the word “Anasazi.” While recognizing its limitations, I have chosen it both for its brevity and because there is no agreed-on alternative.
40. T.R., A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open, pp. 39–62.
41. Ibid., pp. 53–54.
42. T.R. at the creation of Natural Bridges National Monument (April 16, 1908), Natural Bridges National Monument Archive, Lake Powell, Utah.
43. G. Michael McCarthy, Hour of Trial: The Conservation Conflict in Colorado and the West, 1891–1907 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977).
44. George F. Kunz, “The Preservation of Scenic Beauty” in Proceedings of the Conference of Governors, pp. 408–419.
45. T.R. to Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice (April 11, 1908).
46. Edward J. Renehan, Jr., John Burroughs: An American Naturalist (Post Mills, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 1992), p. 250.
47. T.R. to John Burroughs (June 29, 1907), Theodore Roosevelt Papers, Reel 346.
48. John Burroughs, “With Roosevelt at Pine Knot,” Outlook (May 25, 1921).
49. John Burroughs, Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt (Boston, Mass., and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), pp. 102–103.
50. Renehan, John Burroughs, p. 250; Lifton Johnson, John Burroughs Talks (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1922), pp. 237–241; and Clara Barrus (ed.), Burroughs, The Life and Letters of John Burroughs, Vol. 2 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925), p. 363.
51. William Harbaugh, “The Theodore Roosevelts’ Retreat in Southern Albemarle, Pine Knot 1905–1908,” Magazine of Al-bermarle Country History, Vol. 51, 1993, pp. 37–41.
52. Johnson, John Burroughs Talks, p. 290.
53. T.R. to Archie Roosevelt (May 10, 1908) in Joseph Bucklin Bishop (ed.), Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1919), pp. 226–227.
54. Ibid.
55. Paul Russell Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist (New York: Harper, 1956), p. 180.
56. Charles F. Clark, Theodore Roosevelt and the Great Adventure (Des Moines, Iowa: Garner, 1959), p. 111.
57. T.R. quoted in ibid., p. 112.
58. T.R., Address to the National Governors’ Conference, May 13–15 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909), p. 8.
59. Address of Edwin L. Norris in Proceedings of the Conference of Governors (Washington, D.C.: Goverment Printing Office, 1909), pp. 172–173.
60. L. O. Howard, Fighting the Insects (New York: Macmillan, 1933), pp. 239—240.
61. T.R. to Theodore Elijah Burton (June 8, 1908).
62. T.R. to Archie Roosevelt (May 17, 1908), in Bishop (ed.), Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children, p. 228.
63. T.R. to Frank M. Chapman (May 10, 1908).
64. Report to the Chief of the Biological Survey for 1907 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing