The Wilderness Warrior - Douglas Brinkley [582]
Adventures in the Wilderness; Or Camp-Life in the Adirondacks (Murray), 39–40
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 703
Afognak Island Forest and Fish Culture Reserve, 77
Africa, 24–25, 147n, 308, 656
T.R.’s travels in, 412, 702, 733–34, 762–64, 774, 779–80, 794–95, 808, 815
African-Americans:
Benga episode and, 658
“Brer Rabbit” stories of, 82
as buffalo soldiers, 444
in Confederate Army, 435
discrimination against, 41–42
lynching of, 433, 441
in Mississippi, 433–42, 436, 585–86
as slaves, 27, 34, 435, 436
T.R.’s relations with, 404–6, 405, 431–34, 441, 442, 572, 582, 617
African Game Trails (Roosevelt), 764, 794
African Nature (Selous), 762
Agassiz, Alexander, 299, 445
Agassiz, Louis, 43, 101–2, 103, 143, 283, 299n
Age of Reason, The (Paine), 48
Agricultural Appropriations Act (1907), 580
agriculture, 92, 425, 433–34, 667, 746, 748
Country Life Commission and, 783–85, 787
fires and, 664
in Florida, 480
in Midwest, 129, 133, 134
in Nebraska, 468–69
Agriculture Department, U.S. (USDA), 210, 214–16, 247, 398, 468, 499, 662, 664, 670, 799
Alaska and, 321, 564
Breton Island and, 570, 571
buffalo repopulation and, 277–78
Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy at, 214–15, 288, 298, 616n; see also Biological Survey, U.S.
Forestry Division in, 238–39, 342, 345, 372, 400, 422
Luquillo forest and, 446, 447, 449
Pelican Island and, 13–14, 16, 492–94
transfer of forest reserves to, 356, 422, 579, 663; see also Forest Service, U.S.
T.R.’s praise for, 410
Yearbook of, 12, 492, 785
Akeley, Carl, 763, 764
Alabama, 731, 733
Alaska, 21, 76–77, 242, 284, 294, 320, 469–73, 520, 562–65, 575, 806–7
bears in, 300
gold discovered in, 293
Merriam in expedition to, 300, 385, 469, 562, 563, 675
Muir in, 469, 541
seals of, 76–77, 216, 284, 564, 579, 651–54, 721–22
Albany, N.Y., 49, 86, 88
T.R. in, 142, 147, 166, 168, 336–39, 342–47, 351, 355, 356, 361–62, 772
albatross, 566, 739
Albuquerque, N.Mex., 524–25, 786–87
Alder, Jacker, 538
Aleutian Islands, 652, 653
Alexander Archipelago National Forest Reserve, 469–73, 564, 806
Alexander the Great, 770
Alexandria, 55–56
Alfonso XII, King of Spain, 446
Alger, Russell, 313, 332
Allegheny, 129, 199, 373
Allen, Charles Herbert, 446
Allen, Ethan, 39
Allen, J. A., 156
alligators, 733–34
“Alligator Shooting in Florida” (Murphy), 733
Amazon, 22, 247, 445–46, 541, 702
America Horse, 581
American Big-Game Hunting (Roosevelt and Grinnell, eds.), 259–65, 284, 285, 378
American Big Game in Its Haunts (Grinnell, ed.), 555
American Birds (Finley), 550, 744
American Bison Society (ABS), 285, 625, 627, 628, 778
American-British fur seal commission, 215–16
American Civic Association, 568
American Earth (McKibben, ed.), 19
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 635
“American Forests, The” (Muir), 292, 410
American Historical Association, 231, 554
American Ideals (Roosevelt), 319
American Museum of Natural History, 1–2, 15, 43–45, 65, 294, 584, 669, 780
Burroughs’s views on, 219
founding of, 2, 42, 43–44, 63, 145, 202
opening of, 44–45
Southwest and, 415
taxidermy at, 44, 45, 55, 333, 485, 490
T.R.’s donations to, 45, 145, 146
American Ornithologists Union (AOU), 214, 363, 366, 367, 417, 571–72, 714, 801
Florida birds and, 12, 13–14, 491, 495, 496, 738, 739
Protection of North American Birds Committee of, 363–64
T.R.’s report for, 686
American Prairie Foundation, 235
American Scenic and History Preservation Society, 414, 765
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), 49–52, 288
Ammál (Kootenai Indian), 209–10
Among the Water-Fowl (Job), 711
anarchists, anarchy, 95, 391, 408, 636
Anasazi, 19, 414–15, 462, 644, 656, 781
Andersen, Hans Christian, 63, 478
Anderson, George S., 263, 269, 270, 272
Anglo-Saxon race, 331
animals, 24
humans as, 350
neglect or abuse of, 37–38, 42, 46, 48, 49–52, 55, 59, 316, 327, 465
protection of, 42, 45, 46–53, 59, 142, 201–2, 206, 288, 316, 327, 702
Rough Riders’ mascots and, 324–27, 326, 332–33
slaughtering of, 47, 59, 136, 154–55, 186–88, 201
stories about, 82, 387,