Lowell, Robert, 124
Ludlow, William, 188
Ludlow Expedition, 188, 189
Luffsey, Riley, 190
Lukas, J. Anthony, 259
Lummis, Charles F., 670–71
Lummis, Charles L., 274
Luquillo Forest Reserve (later the Luquillo National Forest), 445–49, 649, 669, 734
lynx, 379, 380n, 383, 619, 783
Lyon, Cecil Andrew, 585, 593, 600, 607
McAneny, George, 372
MacArthur, R. S., 658
macaws, 449
McCabe, Richard E., 206
McCarthy, G. Michael, 765
McClintock, James H., 323
McClurg, Virginia Donaghe, 654–56
McCrea, Roswell, 51
McCullough, David, 31, 56, 223
McCurdy, Michael, 17
McDaniel, Dick, 665
McDonald, Alvin, 461
McFarland, J. Horace, 568
McGinty, Billy (Little), 594
McGreary, M. Nelson, 794
McHugh, Tom, 151
McIlhenny, John, 434, 439, 695
McIver, Stuart B., 496
McKibben, Bill, 19
McKim, Mead, and White, 557, 630
Mackinac National Park, 287n
McKinley, William, 1, 11, 14, 20, 341, 344, 366, 384, 389, 391–98, 406, 421, 430, 740
assassination of, 391–96, 398, 406, 408, 421, 427, 457, 466, 580
Cleveland’s forest lands act and, 293–94, 295
in election of 1896, 289–90
“great land lottery” of, 587,
Puerto Rico and, 446
Spanish-American War and, 311–13, 320, 323, 446
T.R.’s naval appointment and, 297–98
vice presidential nominee of, 355–56, 373–76, 375
Wichita Mountains and, 611
McLaughlin, James, 154–55, 641
McLeod, Columbus B., 728–31, 742
Macmillan Company, 416
McNaughton, James, 393
Magnum, E. C., 434–35
Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 298, 310, 384, 397
Maine, 104, 108, 141, 324, 406
Bierstadt in, 260–61
deer from, 307
Thoreau in, 4, 110, 116, 117, 118
T.R.’s nostalgic essay on, 120
Maine, USS, 311, 312, 313, 318, 323
Maine Woods, The (Thoreau), 5, 110, 117
Maitland, Fla., 364–65
Malheur National Wildlife Reservation, 747n, 749
Malik, Terence, 328
Maltese Cross Ranch (Chimney Butte Ranch), 155, 162, 167, 168–69, 171, 172, 177, 178, 179, 181, 189, 198
Mammals of the Adirondack Region, Northeastern New York, The (Merriam), 299, 307
Man and Nature (Marsh), 6, 341, 342, 352
manatees, 721–23, 728, 738
Manderson, Charles, 240
Man-Eaters of Tsavo, The (Patterson), 762
manifest destiny, 28, 75, 243n, 249, 354, 534, 638
Manliness and Civilization (Bederman), 163, 164
mano, black (Oreganis funera), 686–87
Manti National Forest, 764
Marcy, Mount, 39, 346–47, 392–95
Marcy, William Learned, 346
Marines, U.S., 447, 739, 796
Maroon Bells, 380
Marquette, Father, 625
Marsh, George Perkins, 6, 143, 187, 238, 245, 340, 341, 390
Marsh, Othniel C., 187
Marshall, Edward, 325
Marshism, 245–47
Marsh Paleontological Expedition, 188
masculinity, manliness, 164, 184, 349, 351, 636
Mason-Baum, Henry, 642
Massachusetts, 87, 144, 169, 178, 244, 426–27
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 47
Masterson, Bat, 623, 641
Mather, Dave, 354
Matlacha Pass, 727–28
Matlacha Pass Federal Bird Reservation, 737–38, 742
Mattawamkeag, Lake, 111–12, 118, 119
Mattawamkeag River, 112, 115, 119–20
Matterhorn, 140
Matthiessen, Peter, 19
Maynard, Lucy, 813–14
Mead, Albert, 680
Mead, Margaret, 188
meadow-larks, 158
Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 780
meatpacking industry, 253
medical practice, 46, 378–79
Medicine Bow Forest Reserve, 472n
Medicine Lodge Treaty (1867), 590–91
Medora, N.Dak., 5, 169, 172, 175, 181, 191, 193, 196, 198, 209, 273
“grand holiday” in, 230, 232, 233
Marquis de Mores in, 179, 189–90, 232
as T.R.’s address, 287
T.R.’s campaigning in, 374–75
as world, 767
Meeker, Colo., 378, 379
Meiji, Emperor of Japan, 576
Memphis, Tenn., 694–95
Mencken, H. L., 661, 703
Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, 561, 577
Merriam, C. Hart, 13, 71–72, 99, 107, 210, 228, 246, 263, 274, 298–309, 379–82, 406, 410–13, 492, 493, 525, 616, 623, 641, 741, 808
Arizona focus of, 215, 306
background of, 299, 300
bird reservations and, 570, 712, 718, 790–91, 795
on cougars, 380
failure to produce big book of, 515, 555
Great Loop tour and, 509–10, 512, 537, 545
mammalogy and, 214–16, 298–303, 305, 306, 516, 555
Oklahoma trip and, 609, 615
T.R.’s correspondence with, 509–10, 512, 515–16, 563, 609, 762, 813
T.R.’s intellectual duel with, 298–307, 309, 377, 379
T.R.’s work for, 377, 379, 381, 382, 386, 388, 389, 510
at White House Governors’ Conference, 772, 773
“Merriam Report, The,” 300, 385, 469, 562
Merrifield, William, 155, 157, 158, 162, 168, 169, 170, 195, 197, 232, 273, 579
in Bighorns, 172, 174, 175
Merritt, John A., 309
Mershon, W. B., 687
Mesa Verde, 74, 415, 462, 616, 642, 644, 645, 649
Mesa Verde National Park, 19, 654–56, 662, 781
Metcalfe, Clive, 698, 699, 702
Metcalfe, Harley, 698, 699–700, 702
Mexican-American War, 26, 243, 251, 313, 354
Mexico, 193, 311, 359, 415, 790, 804
Meyer, George Von Lengerke, 788
mice, 32–33, 36, 54, 60, 333n
Michaud, Albert, 760, 761
Michaud, Frank, 760, 761
Michigan, 372, 684, 685, 738
bird reservations in, 18, 18n, 569, 616
T.R.’s campaigning in, 211
Michtom, Benjamin Franklin, 442
Michtom, Morris, 442–43
Michtom, Rose, 442–43
Middle East, 55–58, 61–62, 103
Midway Island, 566, 739, 796, 797n
Midwest:
T.R. in, 124–25, 127–37, 127, 170, 292, 428
T.R.’s campaigning in, 211
Milburn, John G., 392
Miles, Nelson A., 332
Mill, John Stuart, 341
Miller, Char, 291, 407, 647, 655
Miller, Joaquin, 81, 265, 266, 300n, 623
Miller, William Henry Harrison, 226
millinery industry, 18, 360, 361, 366, 367, 372, 491, 548, 551, 714, 728, 739
Millinery Merchants Protection Association, 360
minerals, 74–75, 270, 295–96, 398
mining, 239, 244, 248, 259, 290, 292, 352, 379–80, 397, 643, 654
in Arizona, 451, 650
big business and, 295–96
Grand Canyon and, 19, 398, 451, 526, 527
Jewel Cave and, 760, 761
labor organizing and, 635–36
in Oklahoma, 589–90
strikes in, 431, 575, 636
Wind Cave and, 461, 462
Minneapolis, Minn., 126, 150
Minnesota, 37, 73, 125, 129, 141, 148, 152, 162, 194,
389, 605, 790
birds in, 6, 179, 367, 569
Red River country of, 134–37, 152
T.R.’s campaigning in, 211
Minot, Henry Davis (Hal), 104–6, 109, 110, 123
Miraflores Island, 447
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (Livingstone), 24–25, 62
Mississippi, 316, 405, 571, 585–86, 733
bear hunt in, 431–45, 441, 502, 504, 585
Mississippi Flyway, 360, 367
Mississippi River, 129, 132n, 242, 250, 389, 571
T.R.’s crossing of, 128, 132
T.R.’s trip on, 692–95, 694, 701
Missouri, 191, 225, 572, 634
Missouri Central, 522
Missouri River, 54, 187, 250, 624, 740, 770
Missouri River Indian agencies, 254
Mitchell, H. R., 625
Mitchell, John Hipple, 521–22, 543, 551, 579
Mix, Tom, 581
mockingbirds, 32, 108, 359, 700
Mogollan people, 706
Mojave Desert, 260, 529, 530, 556
moles, Eastern, 33
Molokai’O’o (Moho bishopi), 686–87
Momaday, N. Scott, 325, 632
Mondell, Frank W., 661–62, 790–91
monkeys, 60, 63–64, 82, 249
Monkey Wrench Gang, The (Abbey), 467
Monroe Doctrine, 310, 312, 426, 511, 578, 597
Montana, 137, 149n, 171, 172, 178, 181, 235, 286, 377, 675, 786–87
antelope in, 184
buffalo hunting and, 150, 154, 281, 767
buffalo repopulation and, 511, 624, 628
game destruction in, 185–86
“golden spike” ceremony in, 152, 154
as grazing state, 153, 676, 681
Great Loop tour in, 512, 514, 516
lumbermen in, 231
mining in, 248, 635
national monument in, 770, 772
opposition to T.R. in, 249, 421, 445, 772
railroads’ purchase of land in, 238
T.R.’s attack on developers in, 248–49
Montana Mineral Railroad, 232, 236
Montauk peninsula, Rough Riders in, 324, 325, 326, 331–34, 776
Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico, 671
Montezuma Castle National Monument, 670, 671–72, 689, 776
Moody, Dwight L., 426
Moody, William, 426, 739
Moore, John, 251
Moorhead, Minn., 129, 134, 149
Moorhead, William G., 134
moose, 257, 279, 285, 308, 420–21
Bierstadt’s hunting of, 260–62
bull, 117, 119, 816
conservation of, 19, 307, 406
Moose Family (Proctor), 257
Moosehead Lake, 93, 105, 108, 110, 118, 164
Moose Hunter’s Camp (Bierstadt), 260
Moran, Thomas, 74, 235, 450
Mores, Marquis de, 179, 189–90, 232
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 44, 445, 760
Morocco, 593
Morris, Edmund, 58, 67, 105, 155, 373, 408, 409, 686, 815
on Edith, 191
on “Winter of the Blue Snow,” 197
Morris, Gouverneur, 198
Morris, Sylvia Jukes, 190, 618
Mosquito Inlet, 721–23
mountain climbing, 126–27, 140–41, 346–47, 378–79, 392–95
on Katahdin, 110, 116–18, 140, 394
mountain lions (cougars), 59, 212, 257, 279, 302, 305, 324–27, 326, 332, 377–87, 391, 635, 740
in Yellowstone, 382, 413, 502, 505–6, 510, 511–12, 514
Mountains of California, The (Muir), 541
Mountains of Oregon, The (Steel), 456
Mount Desert Island, 125–27
Mount Olympus National Monument, 809–11
Mount Rainier Forest Reserve, 291, 450, 455, 457, 542
Mount Rushmore National Monument, 662n
Mudd, Samuel, 724
Muir, John, 5, 8, 16, 17, 107, 240, 247, 271–72, 293, 410, 456, 466, 506, 536–48, 623
Alaska trip of, 469, 541
background of, 540–41
Century articles of, 235, 236
Cleveland’s public lands act defended by, 292
in Florida, 483, 540
Great Loop tour and, 507, 509, 536–47, 539, 542, 553
Hetch Hetchy and, 789, 790
Mount Shasta and, 300n, 747
national monument in honor of, 751–53, 770
on Pacific Northwest, 714, 716
Petrified Forest and, 525, 645
Pinchot as viewed by, 345, 544, 579, 772
Pinchot’s dispute with, 295, 544, 636
Steel’s meetings with, 455, 457
T.R. challenged by, 636
T.R. compared with, 19, 21, 242, 249, 297, 467, 542–44, 607, 761
T.R.’s correspondence with, 542, 543, 546–47
worldwide tour of, 542, 543
Yosemite and, 536–47, 539, 542, 636
Yosemite Valley and, 107, 297, 306, 543–44, 636
Muir Woods National Monument, 751–53, 770, 771
mules, 49–50, 51
Munenori, Yagyu, 119
Murchie, Guy, 390
Murphy, John Mortimer, 733
Murphy, Nathan Oakes, 451
Murray, W. H. H., 39–40
murres, 716
muskrats, 72, 216, 715
Mustang (Stillman), 665
My Boyhood (Burroughs), 219
My Brother Theodore Roosevelt (Robinson), 233
“My Debt to Maine” (Roosevelt), 120
My Life (Roosevelt), 33–34
“My Life as a Naturalist” (Roosevelt), 31
Mynick, Herbert, 785
Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald (Seemann), 718
“Narrow Fellow in the Grass, A” (Dickinson), 133
Nash, Roderick Frazier, 70
Nast, Thomas, 35
National Academy of Sciences, 288, 445, 704–5
National Association of Audubon Societies, see Audubon Society
National Bison Range, 19, 628
National Conservation Commission, 773
National Drainage Congress, 736
National Editorial Association, 596, 691–92
National Forest Decree (1907), 712
National Forest Management Act (Organic Act; 1897), 239, 397
National Game, Bird, and Fish Protection Association (NGBFPA), 259
National Geographic, 704, 764, 765, 798
National Geographic Society, 215–16
National Key Deer Refuge, 742
national monuments, 706–7, 751–62, 764–66
map of, 822–23
of 1906, 631–72, 689
see also specific monuments
National Park, The (Tilden), 461
national parks, 741
map of, 822–23
see also specific parks
National Park Service, U.S., 450, 614, 689, 690, 707, 757, 789
National Wildlife Federation, 741–42
National Wildlife Federation Conservation Hall of Fame, 240
National Wildlife Refuge System, U.S., 15–19, 567, 568n
National Zoological Park, 282, 521, 589
Native American church movement, 595
Native Americans, 4, 5, 26, 244, 253–58, 280, 564, 588
in Badlands, 150, 155
education of, 373, 765
Garfield’s defense of, 675
genocide of, 199
in Grand Exposition, 100
Grinnell and, 188, 309, 641, 675
as guides, 261
in inauguration parade, 581
racism and, 27, 243
spirit bears of, 35
T.R.’s relations with, 164, 243, 253–55, 627, 641, 765
use of names of, 205
see also reservations; specific groups
Natural Bridges National Monument, 762, 764–65, 766
natural history, 352 at Harvard, 102–3
Hunting Trips
of a Ranchman and, 177, 182
Theodore, Sr. and, 2, 41–42, 42, 43–44
T.R.’s education in, 22–45, 103, 164, 186
see also American Museum of Natural History; specific topics
Natural History (magazine), 689
Naturalist on the Plateau, The (Hudson), 383
“Naturalist’s Tropical Laboratory, A” (Roosevelt), 445–46
natural selection, 23, 60, 64, 207, 302, 317, 318, 330, 370, 812
bigness and, 704–5
nature:
Bacon’s views on, 273
Edith’s understanding of, 233
education about, 352–53
Emerson’s views on, 101, 273
Grinnell’s views on, 188–89
healing power of, 8–9, 22, 39–40, 110, 253, 267, 379
Japanese view of, 566
T.R.’s photography of, 189
T.R.’s views of, 8–9, 14, 15, 246, 267, 328, 429, 534–35,556, 605, 680, 763
as U.S. wonder, 15
Nature Magazine, 720
Nature’s Economy (Worster), 429
Nature’s Metropolis (Cronon), 129
Navajo, 241, 280, 765
Navajo National Monument, 689
Naval Policy of the Presidents (pamphlet of quotations), 311
The Wilderness Warrior Page 132