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The Wilderness Warrior

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by Douglas Brinkley


  Naval War of 1812, The (Roosevelt), 149, 181, 311, 414, 724

  publication of, 142, 145, 148

  reviews of, 145

  writing of, 125, 138, 140, 141

  Navy, U.S., 310, 371, 384, 397, 448, 534, 638, 651, 737

  bird protection and, 738–39

  Navy Department, U.S., 653, 739

  T.R. in, 294, 297–98, 303, 310–13, 797

  Nebraska, 129, 137, 149n, 511, 683

  Grinnell in, 187–88, 245, 254

  reservations in, 226, 254, 255, 628

  Nebraska National Forest, 468–69, 519–20

  Necker Island, 799

  Neel, Harry, 761

  Nelson, Ed W., 280

  Nelson, Horatio, 298n

  Netherlands, 79, 264

  Nevada, 243, 305, 422, 636, 742

  water issues in, 342, 422, 575

  New Brunswick, moose hunting in, 260–61

  “New Conservationism,” 535

  Newell, Frederick H., 423, 424, 425

  New England, 43, 84, 87, 180, 256, 426–27

  see also specific places

  New Hampshire, 84, 618–19

  New Jersey, 44, 98, 352, 372, 622

  Newlands, Francis G., 240, 423–24

  Newlands Act (1902), 423–26, 467, 573, 736, 746

  New Mexico, 243, 290, 314, 331, 380n, 400, 403, 422, 466, 528, 663

  bird reservations in, 20

  Great Loop tour in, 524–25

  national monuments in, 706–7

  prehistoric sites in, 414, 520, 524, 616, 644, 647, 756

  statehood for, 354n, 635, 649–50

  New Orleans, Battle of, 414n, 435

  New Orleans, La., 414, 695

  New Orleans (steamboat), 695

  Newport Mountain, 126–27

  Newspaper Rocks Petroglyphs, 646

  Newton, Henry, 632–33

  New York, N.Y., 4, 11, 181, 623, 761

  animal protection in, 48–52

  Audubon Park in, 186

  bird dishes in, 10

  Bowery in, 287, 288

  Burroughs in, 217–18, 220, 222–23, 368

  club set in, 80–81

  Committee on Measurements exhibition in, 287

  customs officials in, 226

  degradation of waterways of, 219

  election of 1886 in, 196

  Fellowcraft Club in, 217, 222–23, 368

  Hell’s Kitchen in, 217

  Lower East Side in, 478

  museums in, see American Museum of Natural History; Roosevelt Museum of Natural History

  police in, 50, 52, 287–89

  reform movement in, 142, 150, 165

  Roosevelt homes in, 30, 43, 65, 66, 81–82, 125, 138, 147, 166, 202

  tenement houses and slums in, 217, 222, 223

  T.R.’s political activities in, 177, 196

  New York Association for the Protection of Game (NYAPG), 85, 264

  New York Audubon Society, 351, 360, 370

  New Yorker, 320n

  New York Harbor, 29–30, 65, 307

  New York repopulation plan, 276–77

  New York Sportsmen’s Club, 83, 85

  New York State, 39–41, 43, 684, 687

  deforestation in, 236–37

  New York State Fish Commission, 85–86, 88

  New York State Fisheries, Game, and Forest Commission, 339, 345, 351, 352, 357, 372, 377, 403

  New York State legislature, 284, 307, 353, 372

  assembly of, 142–43, 150, 154, 165, 166–67, 168, 185, 190, 225, 731

  T.R.’s second annual message to, 356–58

  New York Sun, 167, 177, 229, 373, 528

  New York Times, 17, 44, 51, 52, 83, 109, 153, 167, 244, 289, 292, 333n, 338, 394, 418, 427, 561, 582, 596, 614, 638, 666, 704, 810–11

  on Antiquities Act, 689

  Benga episode and, 658, 660

  boxing in, 121

  Bronx Zoo in, 279

  on Crater Lake, 455, 462

  on elephant, 647–48

  on Great Loop tour, 507, 509, 514, 517, 531, 537

  on Grinnell, 185, 186

  on Josephine, 325, 332

  Merriam’s bear views in, 301, 302

  Oklahoma trip in, 601, 605

  R.B.R.’s obituary in, 648

  trapshooting and, 264

  on T.R. in Mississippi, 438

  T.R.’s work reviewed in, 183, 228, 266, 621

  on Wind Cave, 462

  New York Tribune, 170, 348

  New York World, 163, 310, 322

  New York Zoological Society, 276–80, 284, 406, 418, 521, 590, 628, 656–58

  Bulletin of, 657, 658

  Department of Tropical Research of, 448

  see also Bronx Zoo

  Niagara Falls, 353, 373, 377, 638–39

  Nile River, 57–58, 67, 763

  Niobrara National Forest, 468–69, 519–20

  Nobel Peace Prize, 618, 669–70, 764

  Noble, John W., 224–25, 237–40, 245

  Nomadic Life (Jusserand), 432–33

  Nordenskiöld, Nils Otto Gustaf, 655

  Norris, Edwin C., 772, 776

  Norris, Frank, 651

  Norris, Thaddeus, 84

  North, Frank, 188

  North, Luther, 188

  North America Conservation Congress, 790

  North American Conservation Conference (1909), 804

  North American Review, 318, 330, 505

  North Carolina, 428, 572, 667, 758

  North Dakota, 6, 134, 149n, 152, 273–74, 419, 567–68, 578, 784

  birds in, 6, 567, 568, 583–84, 746

  Great Loop tour in, 507, 513

  T.R.’s campaigning in, 374–75

  Northern Pacific lobby (Railroad Gang), 205

  Northern Pacific Railroad, 148–55, 165, 209, 244, 259, 271, 293, 516, 588

  Northern Securities Company, 575

  Northern Trails; Some Studies of Animal Life in the Far North (Long), 619–20

  North Woods (Maine), 110–20, 114, 161, 209

  Norton, C. E., 510

  “Notebook on Natural History” (Roosevelt), 54

  Notes on Natural History (Roosevelt), 98

  Notes on Some Birds of Oyster Bay, Long Island (Roosevelt), 108

  Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (Burroughs), 222

  Nuttall, Thomas, 38

  Nuttall Ornithological Club, 107, 108, 111

  Oak Lodge, 488–90

  Obama, Barack, 705

  Ocala National Forest, 736–37

  Odall, Ben, Jr., 332

  Ogallala, Nebr., 137, 153

  Ogden, Peter Skene, 720

  Ohio, 597, 634

  Oklahoma, 129, 314, 403, 585–97, 599–612, 599, 616, 622–30, 663, 675

  Abernathy appointed federal marshall of, 621, 622–23

  acquisition of, 586–87

  buffalo repopulation in, 511, 588, 589, 590, 593, 594, 610–11, 624–28

  oil in, 383

  reservations in, 226, 241, 585, 587, 591

  statehood for, 586, 605, 635, 649–50

  wolves in, 308, 581, 585, 589, 594, 600, 601, 604–9, 608, 620–23, 745

  Oklahoma City, Okla., 587, 623

  Olympic Elk National Park, 810

  Olympic Games, 567

  Olympic Mountains, 305–6, 342, 344, 410, 417, 809–10

  Olympic National Park, 811

  Olympic rainforests, 148, 305, 306, 551, 811

  Olympic Range Elk Reserve, 647

  Olympus, Mount, 306, 417, 535, 633, 649, 680, 809–11

  Omaha, Nebr., 154, 519

  O’Neill, Bill, 143

  O’Neill, William (Bucky), 330, 671

  “On the Little Missouri” (Roosevelt), 308–9

  On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (Darwin), 23–24, 25, 73, 97, 102, 182, 370, 383, 555, 641, 812

  Theodore, Sr. and, 43

  T.R. influenced by, 8, 60, 62, 67, 228, 245
, 317, 318, 686

  U.S. impact of, 44–45, 245

  opossums, 356, 443, 602

  Oregon, 425, 738, 744–49 bears in, 680

  bird reservations in, 714–18, 721, 744–48

  forest reserves in, 421, 676, 678, 778

  Great Loop tour in, 548–51

  Oregon Audubon Society, 549, 551, 715, 716, 748

  Oregon Trail, The (Parkman), 128, 208, 228, 264

  Organic Act (1897), see National Forest Management Act

  Organic Act (1916), 450

  Organic Act (Foraker Law; 1900), 446

  Osborn, Frederick, 94–95, 96, 104

  Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 8, 278–79, 301, 305, 448, 537, 780, 803

  Osgood, Wilfred H., 214–15

  O’Shea, Minnie (Mrs. Robert F. Fortescue), 78

  Oskaloosa, Iowa, 520–21, 563, 668, 672, 677

  Osprey, 330n

  ostriches, 90, 97, 488

  O’Sullivan, Timothy, 74

  Otero, Miguel, 524

  “Other Animals, The” (London), 781–82

  O’Toole, Patricia, 57n

  “Our Forest Reservations” (Roosevelt and Grinnell), 242

  Our Landed Heritage (Robbins), 667, 676

  Our National Parks (Muir), 293, 410, 545

  Our Vanishing Wildlife (Hornaday), 5, 9, 283

  Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (Roosevelt), 21, 110, 380, 381, 555, 607, 620–21, 733

  Outing, 347, 385

  Outing Magazine, 194–95, 206, 708, 709, 713, 733

  Outlook, 115, 522, 683, 712, 731, 780, 794, 809

  Owens, Uncle Jim, 778

  owls, 11, 146, 230, 700, 806

  Oxford University, 781, 812, 813

  Oyster Bay, N.Y., 96–98, 104, 105, 112, 116, 117, 125, 137, 289, 333–34, 377, 385, 618, 637

  birds of, 69–70, 71, 96, 108, 146

  Sagamore Hill in, see Sagamore Hill

  Tranquility in, 69, 91, 108, 149

  oysters, 372

  Pace, Mildred Mastin, 51

  Pacific Cable Company, 739, 797n

  Pacific Flyway, 360, 744

  Pacific Forest Reserve, 291n

  Pacific Northwest, 290–96, 343, 410

  bird reservations in, 714–20, 744–48

  see also specific places

  Pacific Ocean, 250, 306, 311, 471, 618, 637

  expansionism and, 531, 534–35

  Paddock, Eldridge, 155

  Page Wire Fence Company, 521, 590

  Paine, Thomas, 48

  Painted Desert, 149, 290, 525, 535, 645, 672

  paintings, 60, 74, 140, 154, 227, 260, 450, 688, 710

  of Hudson River school, 33, 125–26

  of Mount Shasta, 547–48

  Pajarita Plateau, 524, 644, 647, 655

  Paleolithic Man (Remington), 640

  Palisades Park, 352, 372, 414, 766

  Palma Sola, 727–28, 738

  Palmer, Theodore, 490–91

  Palmer, William, 797–98

  Panama, 384, 668–69, 733

  Panama Canal, 534, 575, 600, 635, 668–69

  Pan-American Exposition, 389, 391

  Panic of 1893, 259–60, 268–69

  panthers, 380n, 699

  parakeets, 9, 205, 352, 727

  Pardee, George C., 536, 771

  Park Commission, U.S., 556–57

  Parker, Alton B., 574, 575, 576

  Parker, Cynthia Ann, 594

  Parker, John M., 434, 437–40, 695

  Parker, Quanah, 586, 590, 594–95, 596, 598, 608–11, 623

  buffalo repatriation and, 594, 595, 596, 610, 611, 626–27

  drug use of, 594–95

  honor for, 630

  in inauguration parade, 581, 594

  in Oklahoma hunt, 600, 605, 609–10

  surrender of, 586, 591

  Parkman, Francis, 101, 208, 209, 264, 554, 609

  T.R. compared with, 184, 228, 247

  T.R. influenced by, 128, 163, 198–99, 228

  T.R.’s correspondence with, 229

  Parks, Burdett, 760n

  Parrish, Maxfield, 640

  parrots, 288, 445, 448–49, 448, 559

  Passage Key, 18, 20, 500–501, 727

  Passenger Pigeon, The (Mershon), 687

  Passing of the Great Race, The (Grant), 285n

  Passing of the Great West, The (Reiger), 189

  “Passing Show, The” (“Drawing the Line in Mississippi” Berryman), 441–42, 441

  Past Preserved in Stone, A (Protas), 671

  Pathfinder Federal Bird Reservation, 18

  Paton, Thomas, 202

  Patterson, John Henry, 762–63

  Patterson, Thomas MacDonald, 384

  Pawnee, 188, 255, 275, 326

  Peabody, Lucy, 654–56

  Pearson, Thomas Gilbert, 479, 727

  pecarries, 251–52, 287

  Pecos River, 239, 320

  Pelican Island, 7, 12, 13, 474, 476, 477, 479, 481, 487–88, 584

  centennial of, 16

  preservation of, 13–17, 20, 483, 489–94, 499–500, 501, 550, 568

  Pelican Island Federal Bird Reservation, 709, 736

  pelicans, 15, 17, 19, 133, 489, 490, 715, 721

  brown, 4, 7–8, 13, 18, 474–75, 479, 481–83, 487, 583, 727, 728

  Job’s photographs of, 709, 711

  white, 6, 568, 583, 728–29, 730, 746–48

  Pender, John, 159

  Pennsylvania, 684, 738

  Pennsylvania Railroad, 507, 509

  perch, 83, 85, 100

  Perkins, George Clement, 642, 801–2

  Perry, Oliver Hazard, 138, 150

  Peterson, Roger Tory, 716

  Petrified Forest, xviii, 15, 462, 525, 623, 633, 634, 635, 642, 645–49

  Petrified Forest National Monument, 670, 672, 688

  Pettigrew, Richard Franklin, 292, 296

  Pfannenbach (thief), 192–93, 192

  Phelps v. Racey, 264n

  Philadelphia, Pa., 4, 98, 373

  Grand Exposition in, 99–100, 138

  Philippines, 384, 397, 425, 426, 445, 447, 449, 507, 534, 583

  bird protection in, 739

  Spanish-American War and, 310, 311, 318, 460

  Phillips, William Hallett, 237, 272

  Pick, Nancy, 66

  Pierce, Franklin, 268

  pigeons, 97, 686

  passenger, 9, 41, 46, 68, 97–98, 220, 320, 352, 686–87, 767, 774

  Pike, Warburton, 808

  Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 129, 241, 243, 297

  Pikes Peak, 74, 227, 378–79

  Pinchot, Gifford, 5, 103, 257, 340–47, 343, 353, 358, 372, 388, 398, 406–9, 411, 430, 447, 494, 503, 566, 569, 579–80, 616, 663–65, 777, 778, 786, 790, 803–5, 815

  background of, 340–41

  as confidential special agent, 294–95, 344

  Crater Lake and, 452, 453, 457–58, 459, 544, 549

  Everglades drainage scheme and, 735

  forest reserves of 1907 and, 675, 676, 678, 680

  Grinnell compared with, 189

  Hetch Hetchy and, 544, 636

  Marcy climbed by, 346–47, 393

  on Mississippi River trip, 693–95, 694

  Muir’s views on, 345, 544, 579, 772

  national monuments and, 759

  Nebraska project and, 468, 469

  reclamation work and, 423, 424, 747, 748

  Taft’s relations with, 793, 795, 803, 804–5, 816

  tree museum idea of, 577–78

  T.R.’s alliance with, 345, 346, 407, 422

  T.R.’s correspondence with, 387, 447, 469, 519, 663, 664–65, 813

  writings of, 6, 238, 341, 343–44, 805

  Pinchot, James Wallace, 340, 347

  Pinchot, Mount, 627

  Pine Island, 727–28, 732, 741, 742

  Pine Knot, 119, 615–19, 665–67, 666, 767–69, 773–77

  birds at, 618, 686, 687, 767, 774–75, 777

  Pine Ridge Reservation, 253–54, 273, 277

  pines, 239, 46
9, 648

  Pinnacles National Monument, 758–59, 766

  pioneers, 129, 228, 233, 256, 348, 564

  Pioneers, The (Cooper), 40–41

  “Pioneer Spirit and American Problems, The” (Roosevelt), 809

  Pisani, Donald J., 566

  Pitcher, John, 399, 413, 429, 635

  Great Loop tour and, 502, 507, 514, 516

  Place of Passages (Evans-Hatch and Evans-Hatch), 760n

  Places of Quiet Beauty (Conrad), 646

  plagiarism, 229

  Plains Indians, 188, 190, 255, 587, 626–27, 641

  see also specific groups

  Plains of the Great West, The (Dodge), 380

  Platt, Orville H., 613–14

  Platt, Thomas (Boss), 347–48, 353, 355, 373, 376, 613

  Platt National Park, 614, 632

  plovers, 10, 18, 61, 103, 362–63

  Plutarch’s Lives, 770

  poachers, 85, 264, 286, 367, 743, 796

  seal, 651–54

  western, 76, 201, 205, 231, 236, 242, 248, 263, 269–70, 272, 273, 403, 467, 626

  Pocahontas, 691–92

  Pocatello National Forest, 779

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 28, 156

  poetry, 111, 180, 237, 768

 

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