The Wilderness Warrior - Douglas Brinkley [581]
At HarperCollins, my editor, Tim Duggan, was his trademark self—smart, proactive, and devoted. Anybody who believes the days of quality editing are over has never worked with Tim, whose standards are the best in the business. Jonathan Burnham epitomizes an excellent publisher in 2009—a lucid thinker and marketplace-savvy friend. Brian Murray, the president and CEO of HarperCollins worldwide, was typically helpful at every stage. I’ll always be grateful for his wise counsel. Others at HarperCollins who deserve thanks are Allison Lorentzen (a genius facilitator), Susan Gamer (copyeditor), Katharine Baker (production editor), and Leah Carlson-Stanisic (designer). The indomitable Trent Duffy of New York assisted me in editing the first half of the manuscript. Likewise, the ethereal Emma Juniper assisted me during my final stages. Lisa Bankoff of ICM—my agent since 1992—offered her trademark sound counsel.
My indispensable research associate for the past two years has been Stone Weeks. Stone’s father, Linton Weeks of National Public Radio, has been a longtime acquaintance of mine. One afternoon, he telephoned me about grabbing a cup of coffee with his twenty-two-year-old son Stone, who was poised to graduate from the University of Delaware. I said, “Sure.” After meeting Stone in New Orleans, I was deeply impressed by his intellect, drive, and computer skills. Rice University president David Leebron hired him to be my personal assistant on this book, and we’ve worked closely together over the last two years. An Internet wizard, he helped me track down obscure books, academic articles, and interlibrary loan titles. During the manuscript preparation phase he was exemplary. He became like family. The world can expect great things from him in the coming decades.
As always, my most profound gratitude is reserved for my wife, Anne, who shared this adventure into T.R.’s America every step of the way. When other families were visiting Disneyland, the Brinkleys spent their summers at Roosevelt sites such as Muir Woods, Mesa Verde, Crater Lake, and Ocala National Forest. Together, Anne and I have tried to bring nature into our children’s lives. Our backyard in Austin is full of wildlife—a family of deer lives in our mesquite forest, and a raccoon mother recently gave birth to a kit under my daughter Cassady’s bedroom. Weekly we jog around Lady Bird Lake in Zilker Park, looking for great blue heron and wood duck. Like pied pipers, whenever we have free time, we march Benton, Johnny, and Cassady to the Wild Basin just down Highway 360 to hunt for pinecones and smooth rocks near the magical waterfall. These regular family outings have convinced me that Theodore Roosevelt was right: we all need to bring nature into our daily lives.
Austin, Texas
April 12, 2009
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Note: Entries in this index, carried over verbatim from the print edition of this title, are unlikely to correspond to the pagination of any given e-book reader. However, entries in this index, and other terms, may be easily located by using the search feature of your e-book reader.
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Abbey, Edward, 19, 467, 764
Abernathy, Jack (Catch’Em Alive), 592–94, 618–24, 641
appointed U.S. federal marshall, 621, 622–23
movie about, 621–22
T.R.’s wolf coursing with, 308, 592–94, 599–608, 616, 618–22, 745
T.R.’s writing about, 620–21
White House visit of, 612, 620
Absaroka Forest Reserve, 472n
Adams, Ansel, 450
Adams, Brooks, 297
Adams, Charles Francis, 101
Adams, Henry, 57n, 228, 247, 342
T.R. criticized by, 227, 266, 313
Adams, John (Grizzly), 444
Adams, John Quincy, 3, 737, 787
Adirondack National Park, 237, 307–8, 339, 372, 772
Adirondacks, 5, 103–8, 161, 339, 344–47, 351, 357, 359
Pinchot in, 342, 345–47
speed-logging in, 236–37
T.R. in, 39–40, 70–73, 103–6, 108, 353, 392–96
Adventures in Bird Protection (Pearson), 479