The Wilderness Warrior - Douglas Brinkley [616]
surveying of, 294
T.R. in, 21, 444, 502, 507, 508–9, 536–47, 539, 542, 556, 636
Yosemite National Park Archive, 545
About the Author
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY is a professor of history at Rice University and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune has dubbed him “America’s new past master.” Six of his books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. His most recent book, The Great Deluge, won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He lives in Texas with his wife and three children.
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ALSO BY DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
The Reagan Diaries (editor)
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion
Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947–1954 (editor)
Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903–2003
The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation (with Stephen E. Ambrose)
American Heritage History of the United States
The Western Paradox: Bernard DeVoto Conservation Reader (editor, with Patricia Nelson Limerick)
Rosa Parks
The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey beyond the White House
John F. Kennedy and Europe (editor)
Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1939, Eighth Edition (with Stephen E. Ambrose)
The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey
Dean Acheson: The Cold War Tears, 1953–1971
Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal (with Townsend Hoopes)
FDR and the Creation of the U.N.
Credits
Jacket photograph Courtesy of Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard University
Jacket design by Jarrod Taylor
Maps by Nick Springer
Copyright
THE WILDERNESS WARRIOR. Copyright © 2009 by Douglas Brinkley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Adobe Digital Edition July 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-194057-6
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* Although the term Audubon Society is commonly used, many state Audubons are separate entities in fierce competition with the “National Audubon.”
* He created two federal bird reservations at the same time in Michigan: Siskiwit Islands and Huron Islands.
* George Bird Grinnell used almost the same phrase in 1882, in an editorial in Forest and Stream, speaking of “generations yet unborn.”
* The Boy Hunters was dedicated to “The Boy Readers of England and America.” Reid hoped that the novel would “Interest Them So as to Rival in Their Affections the Top, the Ball, and the Kite—That It May Impress Them, So as to Create a Taste for that Most Refining Study, the Study of Nature.” As for the hunting of white buffalo, Reid got the idea from the true story of the Cheyenne killing one in 1833.
* Baird’s scientific