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21 For the next Burroughs, Camping and Tramping, 12–13; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 551.
22 When the train Burroughs, Camping and Tramping, 15–16; Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 201, 337; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 551–52.
23 Joe Ferris was New York Sun, 8 Apr. 1903; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 552.
24 Shortly after noon For TR’s own account of his visit to Yellowstone, see TR, Works, vol. 3, chap. 9.
25 “Oom John” Oom (Dutch diminutive for “old man”) was TR’s affectionate name for Burroughs. See also TR, Letters, vol. 3, 429–30.
26 They were greeted Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt, 105; Paul Schullery, “A Partnership in Conservation: Theodore Roosevelt and Yellowstone,” Montana 28.3 (1978); New York Sun, 9 Apr. 1903; Burroughs, Camping and Tramping, 24–25.
27 “By the way” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 552–53.
28 Hell-Roaring Bill Herman Hagedorn, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands (Boston, 1921), 113–17. 219 “I will try” TR, Letters, vol. 3, 553.
29 A FEW HOURS New York Sun and Baltimore American, 11 Apr. 1903; Thorelli, Federal Antitrust Policy, 561; Martin, James J. Hill, 517; Lamoreaux, Great Merger Movement, 166–67.
30 “If this decision” Boston Record, 11 Apr. 1903; Satterlee, J. Pierpont Morgan, 401. Northern Securities stock dropped twelve points in three days after the St. Paul decision, reaching a low twenty-five points below its initial high. The Washington Post, 19 Apr. 1903.
31 William Loeb asked New York Sun, 10 Apr. 1903. For a popular reaction to the Circuit Court decision, see Eitler, “Philander Chase Knox,” 71–73.
32 He had also Healy, United States in Cuba, 203–6; Anthracite Coal Commission, Report to the President, 80–87; DuVal, Cadiz to Cathay, 211–14.
33 That did not Medill McCormick to his parents, ca. Feb. 1903 (MHM); Topeka, Kans., Herald, 21 Mar. 1903; The New York Times, 22 Mar. 1903; Pittsburgh Press, 15 Mar. 1903; Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 1903.
34 “Such a bosom” Literary Digest, Apr.–June 1903, 219.
35 ROOSEVELT WAS NO George Bird Grinnell, “Theodore Roosevelt as a Sportsman,” The Country Calendar, Nov. 1905; Robert Underwood Johnson, Remembered Yesterdays (Boston, 1923), 309; Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt, 70–73; Jeremy Johnston, “Preserving the Beasts of Waste and Desolation: Theodore Roosevelt and Predator Control in Yellowstone National Park,” George White Forum 15.4 (1988).
36 Or near solitude The following account of TR’s sixteen days in Yellowstone is based on Major Pitcher’s diary, published in The Washington Post, 24 Apr. 1903; TR’s own account, “Wilderness Reserves: The Yellowstone Park,” Works, vol. 3, 266–93; Burroughs, Camping and Tramping, 23–75; Fred M. Davenport, “President Roosevelt in the Yellowstone,” Outlook 142 (1926); Cutright, Theodore Roosevelt, 104–11; and “Comment” scrapbook.
37 Each day, he TR, Letters, vol. 3, 461–64. He made a detailed list of his natural observations to send to C. Hart Merriam of the United States Biological Survey.
38 On 12 April Pitcher diary, 12 Apr. 1903; TR, Works, vol. 3, 282–84; Burroughs, Camping and Tramping, 32–33.
39 Burroughs, who Lindsay Denison in New York Sun, 24 Apr. 1903; Burroughs, Camping and Tramping, 33; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 429–30.
40 “Every man who” TR, Works, vol. 3, 267–68. See also TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 1, 324–28.
41 Roosevelt expressed Ibid.
42 Only once did he TR, Letters, vol. 3, 463.
43 BACK IN GARDINER New York Sun and New York World, 19 Apr. 1903.
44 Finally, on 24 April Lindsay Denison in New York Sun, 29 Apr. 1903. “It was rather a sad interview,” Roosevelt wrote afterward. “The old fellow had gone to pieces, and soon after I left he got lost in a blizzard and was dead when they found him.” TR, Autobiography, 117.
45 Before leaving TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 1, 324. The Washington Post, 25 Apr. 1903, remarked that TR’s Yellowstone speech showed a new governmental attitude, “after more than thirty years of passive attention to the park.”
46 Then, with a Except where otherwise cited, the following four paragraphs are based on stereopticon photographs by Underwood