The Wilderness Warrior - Douglas Brinkley [606]
Rough Riders and, 315–19
timber needs of, 236–37
see also specific railroads
rain forests, 445–49, 470
Olympic, 148, 305, 306, 551, 811
“Ranch, The” (Roosevelt), 195
ranching, ranches, 150, 167, 598, 665
T.R.’s investment in, 153, 162, 165, 168
see also Elkhorn Ranch; Maltese Cross Ranch
“Ranching” (Roosevelt), 208n
Ranching with Roosevelt (Lang), 159, 161, 164, 280
Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (Roosevelt), 6, 151, 195, 201, 212–13, 223, 247, 263
Remington’s illustrations for, 201, 212, 639
Virginian compared with, 464
“Ranchman’s Log ‘Schack’,” 149, 170
Randolph, John, 229
rangers, 20–21, 399, 565, 765, 779
in Oklahoma, 589–90
see also forest rangers
Raymond L. Ditmars (Wood), 732
“Real and Sham Natural History” (Burroughs), 504, 505
recapitulation theory, 349
Reclamation Act, 535, 663
reclamation projects, 425, 692, 694
Reclamation Service, U.S. (later the Bureau of Reclamation), 423–26, 535,663,675,771,772, 801
Everglades and, 734, 743
Klamath basin and, 746–48
Reconstruction era, 41, 79
Records of North American Big Game (Ward and McCabe), 206
Red River, 73, 129, 590, 594, 610
Red River country, 134–37
Red River valley, 37, 152, 158, 249, 568
Redwood National Park, 751n
redwoods, 532–37, 547, 556, 751–53, 771
Reeves, L. P., 730n
reform movements, 14, 142, 150, 164–65, 168, 170, 222, 287
T.R. as assemblyman and, 142, 150, 164
T.R. in civil service and, 212, 217, 226, 256
T.R.’s abandoning of, 170
T.R.’s governorship and, 336, 338–39, 372–73
Reid, Mayne, 25–28, 37, 58–59, 60, 73, 83, 99, 134, 164, 177, 245, 370, 417, 430, 697
on Florida, 320
Grinnell influenced by, 187
Winning of the West influenced by, 228, 229
Reid, Whitelaw, 788
Reiger, John F., 189, 264
Remington, Frederic, 195, 207–9, 208, 262, 309, 311, 639–40, 641, 687–88
sculpture by, 335, 640, 776
T.R. compared with, 212–13
T.R.’s correspondence with, 241, 639
T.R.’s work illustrated by, 151, 201, 207, 208, 212, 265, 639
Reptile Book, The (Ditmars), 731–33
reptiles, 37, 279, 731–35
Republican Roosevelt, The (Blum), 370, 384
Republicans, 1, 138, 142, 190, 292, 297, 354–55, 404, 522, 523, 642, 667, 673–76, 784
as conservationists, 14, 20, 77, 224
in Iowa, 647–48
New York State, 336, 347–48, 355
progressive, 791, 793
radical, 27
Texas and, 585
T.R.’s investigation of, 226
see also specific people and elections
Republic Oil Company, 634
reservations, 275, 373, 451, 510, 765
in Dakotas, 226, 253–55
in Nebraska, 226, 254, 255, 628
in Oklahoma, 226, 241, 585, 587, 591
reservoirs, 376, 415, 422, 424–25, 636, 663, 748, 779
reversion, 686
Rexroth, Kenneth, 295–96
Reynolds, Charley, 188
rhinoceros, 656, 794–95
Richards, DeForest, 507
Richards, William A., 13
Richardson, Mrs., 101
Righter, Robert W., 643
Riis, Edward, 387
Riis, Jacob A., 24–25, 217, 373, 387, 393
on Roosevelt pets, 557, 558
Ripley, Edward Payson, 675
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The (Morris), 105, 139n
Rivers of Empire (Worster), 424
Robbins, Roy M., 667, 676
robins, 33, 505
Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt (Conie), 36, 43, 56, 60, 109, 265
on “grand holiday,” 230, 232–34
T.R.’s correspondence with, 126, 131, 134, 321, 327, 329
Robinson, Douglas, 165, 230, 327, 753
Rockefeller, John D., 383, 634, 683, 685
Rockhill, W. W., 286
Rocky Mountains, 74, 149, 171, 232, 374, 523
artists and, 207, 260
birds of, 265–66
buffalo repopulation in, 255, 276
development of, 241–42, 296
in fiction, 262
“grand holiday” in, 230
grizzlies in, 586
politics and, 292, 389
Reid and, 26, 28
trap use in, 215
trees and forests in, 250, 342
T.R.’s interest in, 39, 297, 377–84
wildlife depletion in, 205
Rodgers, Mark A., 650
Rodriquez, Adolfo, 310
Rogers, Archibald, 202, 237, 262, 388
Rogers, E. P., 202
Roosevelt, Alice, see Longworth, Alice Roosevelt
Roosevelt, Alice Lee, 114, 147, 165–68, 196
death of, 166–68, 181, 190, 193
European travels of, 140
in Mount Desert Island, 126
pregnancy of, 151, 165, 166
T.R.’s marriage to, 116, 120, 123, 125, 137
T.R.’s missing of, 128, 137
Roosevelt,