Muir’s glossary of terms for, 8
Muir’s sketches of, 13
Muir’s trips to observe, 3–14
Glaser, Frank, 287, 354–55
Glavis, Louis R., 75, 78
Glen Canyon Dam, 365–66
global warming, 1
Glover, James M., 250, 255
Go East, Young Man (Douglas), 283, 308, 314, 354
Goetzmann, William H., 17
gold and gold rushes, 20, 35, 41, 45, 52, 58, 266
golden eagles, 292n
golden plover (Pluvialis dominica), 260
Goldman, Edward A., 351
Graham, Frank, Jr., 152, 249
Grand Canyon National Monument, 164–65
Grand Teton National Park, 318, 492
Grant, Madison, 156, 176, 177
Graves, Henry Solon, 82–83, 91
Gray, Asa, 15
Gray, Charles, 287, 456
great auk, 153
Great Plains wolf (Canis lupus nubilus), 289
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 222, 257
Greeley, William B., 213
Grey, Edward, 87
Griggs, Dr. Robert, 114
Grinnell, George Bird, 53, 89, 139, 161, 210
Curtis and, 45
Harriman Expedition and, 16, 18, 42, 53
T. Roosevelt and, 39, 41
grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), 30, 40, 124, 136, 297–98
Grounded Iceberg (Adams), 336
Group f/64, 325
Gruening, Ernest, 229, 329, 476, 489, 490–91
Gruening, Martha, 198
“Guerillas of Destruction, The” (Hornaday), 157–58
Guggenheim, Solomon R., 75–79, 104, 220
Gulick, Amy, 59
Gulliver, Louisa Walker. See Sheldon, Louisa Walker Gulliver
Gwich’in people, 273, 382
Arctic NWR and, 456, 457–58, 459–61
caribou and, 130–31, 369–70
Project Chariot and, 405–6
Haeckel, Ernst, 113, 401
Haida people, 26, 33, 43, 53
Haines, Mrs. F. E., 6–7
Hammond, Jay, 369, 421
Hamsun, Knut, 21, 41
Han Shan, 395
Handbook, of Boy Scouts of America, 102
hanging glacier, defined, 8
Hansen, Julia Butler, 421
harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), 15
Harding, Florence, 219, 220
Harding, Warren G., 217–20
Harper, Allan, 256
Harper, Walter, 265
Harriman, E. H., 16, 18, 40, 41, 44. See also Harriman Alaska Expedition
Harriman Alaska Expedition, 25, 40, 48
artifacts taken by, 30–31
Harriman Alaska Series reports from, 17, 39, 45, 53
influence on T. Roosevelt, 38–45
naming of glaciers, 57
observations of stripping of natural resources, 16–17
participants, 16, 18
Harvard University, 235–36
Hawkins, Thomas, 191, 193, 197, 198
Hawkins, Virginia, 193, 407
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, 225, 227, 228
Hay, John, 42
Haydon, Jack, 130
Heller, Edward, 108, 111
Hemingway, Ernest, 100
Hemingway, Sean, 100
Hemingway on Hunting (Hemingway), 100
Hendrickson, Wayne, 476
Henri, Robert, 188
Hermitage Museum, Rockwell’s work in, 407
Herrick, Francis Hobart, 112–13
Hetch Hetchy, damming issue, 93–94, 166–67, 303, 384
Hickel, Walter, 468
Hickey, Joseph, 365
High Peaks, The (Marshall), 234
Hildebrand, Joel, 259–60
Hill, Virginia “Ginny,” 338–41
Hinchinbrook Island, 135, 136
Hines, Bob, 438
Hirsch, Robert, 333
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (Morison), 294
Holiday, 422, 435, 436
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, 13
Holzworth, John, 281
Home Life of Wild Birds, The (Herrick), 112–13
Homer, Alaska, 416–21
homesteading, in 1920s, 193
Hoover, Herbert, 218, 222–24, 243
Hornaday, William Temple, 95–97, 144, 149–61, 210–11
background, 150–51, 365
Boy Scouts of America award honoring, 102
changed attitude toward sports hunting, 152–53
death of, 211
game management and, 174
influence on Leopold, 163–64, 166
influence on Matthiessen, 436, 437
T. Roosevelt’s death and, 205
Houghton, A. S., 97
“Howl” (Ginsberg), 401–2
Howl and Other Poems (Ginsberg), 402–3, 411, 412–13, 417
Hubbard, L. Ron, 396, 418
Huineng, 393
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), 59
Humphrey, William, 89
Hunter, Celia, 338–41, 385, 477
Arctic NWR and, 483–87, 496
Hunting at High Altitudes (Garnt), 177
Hunting Game in Africa (film), 101
hunting issues
Arctic NWR, 455, 458–60, 466–67
Bambi’s effect on public perceptions, 347–48, 356
game management and, 173–78
Hornaday’s changed attitude toward, 152–53
Leopold and, 214
market hunting, 133, 147, 150, 159–60, 213
role of federal government regulation debated, 159–60
shooting wolves from planes, 301, 368–69
Hunting Tips of a Ranchman (Roosevelt), 40
Hyde, Arthur M., 253
Hyde, Philip, 394
Ice Palace (Ferber), 205, 451
Ice Peaks National Park, proposed, 389
icebergs, Curtis’s photographs of, 46
Ickes, Harold L., 204, 206, 315, 319, 389
Adams and, 325–27, 329
Alaskan oil and, 294–95
Ballinger/Pinchot feud and, 314
Bull Moose Party and, 118, 120
Edge and, 227–28
Marshall and, 256
Truman and, 319
wilderness movement and, 252–53
Idaho, 318
Independent, 109
Independent Journey: “William O. Douglas” (Simon), 312
Indian Summer, Alaska (Kent), 187
Inside Passage, Muir’s journey on, 3–10. See also Harriman Alaska Expedition
“In the Great Country” (Matthiessen), 443
Inupiat people, 26–27, 33, 36, 176
Arctic NWR and, 460
atomic bomb testing and, 403–6
land rights of and T. Roosevelt, 53
Isaly Dairy Company, 228
“Is Polar Exploration Worthwhile?” (Roosevelt), 175
It’s Me, O Lord (Kent), 189, 191
ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), 214
Izaak Walton League, 224, 361, 371, 469, 471
Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, 431, 471, 489, 491, 493
Jackson, Harriet West, 451
Jackson, Sheldon, 43, 316
Janzen, Dan, 463
Jeffers, Robinson, 395, 397
Jewish Tribune, 232
Jews, Marshall family and, 232, 237–38, 242
John Muir Trail, 168
Johnson, Edwin Boyd, 315
Johnson, Ernie, 247
Johnson, Lyndon, 263, 394, 445
Jones, Bob “Sea Otter,” 471
background, 427–29
defense of sea otters, 426–27, 429–34
Jones, C. J. “Buffalo,” 96
Jones, Dorothy, 427, 431, 433–34
Jones, E. Lester, 156
Jones, Pirkle, 335
Jones, Wesley, 166
Jordan, David Starr, 205,
344
Journal for the Protection of All Beings, 408
Journal of Forestry, 214n, 239
Journal of Mammology, 205
Juneau, Alaska, 264
Jungle Book (Kipling), 35
Kachemak Bay, 32
Kael, Pauline, 347
Kaniksu National Forest, Idaho, 237
Karstens, Harry, 131, 133, 137–38, 139
Katmai National Monument, 114–15, 158, 281, 366, 462
Katz, F. J., 179
Kayak Island, 27, 28, 61
Kaye, Roger, 364, 454n
Keeler, Charles, 18
Kefauver, Estes, 445
Kenai Fjords National Park, 187, 200
Kenai National Moose Range, 253, 462, 467–68
Kenai Peninsula, 32, 56
Kennecott Copper Company, 75–76, 78, 104
Kennedy, Ethel, 480–81
Kennedy, John F., 490, 491
Kennedy, Joseph P., 314, 319
Kennedy, Robert F., Jr., 306, 480–81, 492
Kent, Rockwell
background and description, 188–90
beat generation and, 407
drawing and paintings of Alaska, 186–88, 194–95, 199
journey to Fox Island, 190–92
life on Fox Island, 184–86, 189–90, 192–94, 195–99
on Marshall, 250
other artwork of, 199–201
writings of, 184, 189, 191, 194, 195, 198–99, 200, 229
Kent, Rockwell, Jr., 184, 185, 189, 190–92, 195–97
Kent, William, 111
Kerouac, Jack, 387, 396, 400, 402, 406, 411, 413, 414–15, 421–25, 435
Kessel, Brina, 375, 384
kettle pond, defined, 8
kidder bears, 161
Kings Canyon National Park, 326
Kipling, Rudyard, 32, 35
Kittatinny Ridge, 226
Kizer, Carolyn, 414–15
Kleinschmidt, Frank, 159
Klinkenborg, Verlyn, 263
Klondike bars, 228
Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), 123, 161, 438
Kodiak Island, 40, 156
Kollin, Susan, 6, 92
Kotzebue Sound, 14
Krear, H. Robert, 375
Kreps, Bonnie, 265
Krug, Julius A., 322, 327
Kuskokwim refuge, 471, 489, 491, 493
La Follette, Robert, 115–16
Labrador duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius), 153, 437
Lacey, John F., 365
Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, A (Bird), 450
Lafferty, Abraham Walter, 89, 107
Lake Clark-Iliamna area, 145–48, 178–83, 316–17
Lake Clark National Park, 175
Lake Placid Club, 232
Lamantia, Philip, 400
Lamont, James, 25
Land of Little Rain (Austin), 450
land trusts, 235–36
Landon, Alf, 465
Lane, Franklin, 167, 205, 210
Langer, William, 380
Langille, William, 50–51, 57, 58, 60, 72
Last Great Wilderness (Kaye), 364, 454n
Lathrop, Austin E. “Cap,” 474–75
Laurence, Sydney Mortimer, 186
LaVigne, Robert, 411
Lears, T. J. Jackson, 52
Lee, J. Bracken, 365–66
Leffler, Ross, 466, 471–72
lemming (Lemmus trimucronatus yukonensis), 134
Leonard, Richard and Doris, 463
Leopold, Aldo, 96, 166, 170–72, 177, 214n, 238, 288, 317, 496
background, 365
bald eagle and, 225
bears and, 281–82
Hornaday’s influence on, 163–64, 166
influence on M. Murie, 358, 359
joins U.S. Forest Service, 213–14
passenger pigeon and, 358–59
Sand County Almanac, 65–66, 295, 361, 401
Snyder on, 394
Wilderness Society and, 231, 257
wolves and, 296, 298
Leopold, Luna, 357
Leopold, Starker, 360, 364, 371, 462
Letter from the Brooks Range (film), 470
Letters from the Brooks Range (M. Murie), 451
Life History of African Game Animals (T. Roosevelt), 111
Lighting the Corners (McClure), 422
Lindsay, Vachel, 194
Living Wilderness, 299, 320, 321, 384, 392, 398, 447, 458, 460
Lobo, the King of Currampaw (Seaton), 363
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 83, 87
logging. See forest preservation
London, Jack, 51, 52, 58, 92, 95, 141, 172, 184, 293
Lone Man (Kent), 194–95
Lonesome Traveler (Kerouac), 424–25
Long, Oren E., 476
Looking for North (Goetzmann and Sloan), 17
loons, 62
Lopez, Barry, 229, 289, 301
MacKaye, Benton, 257, 361
Macnab, A. J. “Sandy,” 143–48, 177, 179–83
Mad Hermit series (Kent), 195
Made from This Earth: American Women and Nature (Norwood), 353
Maine, 146, 188
Maine Woods, The (Thoreau), 146
Main-Traveled Roads (Garland), 89–90
malamutes (eskimo dogs), 141–42
Mammoth Cave National Park, 222
Man and Nature (Perkins), 85
Manhattan Mercury, 464, 465
Man’s Dominion (Graham), 152
market hunting. See hunting issues
Marmota caligata, 124
Marmota olympus, 350
Marsh, George Perkins, 85
Marshall, George, 233, 241–42, 249
Marshall, James, 233
Marshall, Louis, 231, 232–33, 234, 242, 252
Marshall, Robert, 146, 389
Arctic Village and, 244–45, 247–50, 254, 367
background, 231–34
Brooks Range and, 239–42, 245–47, 260–61
death and legacy of, 261–62, 282
Depression-era forest service cutbacks and, 242–44
education and forestry experience, 234–40, 244
F. Roosevelt administration and, 251, 252, 253–54, 255–57, 319
Muries and, 280–82
naming of natural features, 247
other writings, 234, 238, 239, 244, 247, 255, 355–56, 363
Snyder on, 388
wilderness proposal of, 259–60
Wilderness Society and, 231, 257–59, 261–62
Marston, Marvin R. “Muktuk,” 468
Martin, G. C., 179
Mather, Stephen, 140, 143, 146, 205, 234, 258
Matthiessen, Erard Adolph, 434, 435
Matthiessen, George, 434–35, 436
Matthiessen, Peter, 224–25, 426, 434–38, 441, 449, 452
Matthiessen, Sarah Carey, 435
Maxwell, Gavin, 431–32
Mayer, Dr. Louis, 355
Mazamas Club, 37, 388–89, 398
McCarthy, Joseph, 363, 377, 383, 407
McClure, Michael, 400–401, 403, 408, 414–15, 422, 441
McCone, John A., 404
McCormack, Albert, 312
McGeary, M. Nelson, 78, 84
McIlhenny, Edward A., 64, 157
McKay, Douglas, 354, 383, 466, 468
McKinley, William, 44, 121
McKinley River, 137–38
McKinley Station (Walker), 122
McLean, Marshall, 97
McNary, Charles L., 89
Mead, Margaret, 351
Mech, David, 447
Mencken, H. L., 250
Merrell, Bruce, 20
Merriam, C. Hart, 39, 40, 209, 274, 287, 437
Brady and, 44
Harriman Expedition and, 45, 53
Sheldon and, 127, 128, 129, 134, 136, 223
T. Roosevelt’s death and, 205
Meyers, Larry, 369
Michigan, University of, 290–91
Midnight Wilderness (Miller), 476
Migratory
Bird Hunting Stamp Act (1934), 317–18
Miller, Char, 109
Miller, Debbie S., 476
Miller, Nathan, 80
Miller, W. Dewitt, 226–27
Milotte, Alfred and Elma, 343–45, 347
Mineral King resort, proposed, 305–7
mines and mining, 56, 104–5
T. Roosevelt and, 49, 52
Taft administration and, 72, 75
see also Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; gold and gold rushes; oil discovery and exploration
Misty Fiords National Monument and Wilderness, 5, 38
Mitman, Gregg, 445
Moby Dick (Melville), Kent’s illustration of, 199–200
Modern Library logo, 200
Monkey Wrench Gang, The (Abbey), 366
Monograph of the Pheasants, A (Beebe), 204
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome (Adams), 325
Montague Island, 123, 135, 136
Moon and Half Dome (Adams), 334
Moon and Mount McKinley (Adams), 341
Moonlight Wolf (Remington), 289
moose, 39, 108–9, 155, 218, 221, 253, 467–68
Morgan, J. P., 75–79, 104, 220
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 294
Morton, Elizabeth A., 421
mosquitoes, 132, 137, 332, 342, 381
Mount Katahdin, 146
Mount Kimball, 315
Mount McKinley
A. Murie and wolves of, 285–89, 291–93, 295–99
controversy over name, 121, 133, 142–43
Sheldon and, 121–22, 132, 133, 222
Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake (Adams), 330–34, 337
Mount McKinley National Park, 133, 143–44, 212, 223, 223n, 298, 299n, 474
Adams’s photographs of, 324, 329, 330–34, 337
campaign for, 137–42, 146
established by Congress, 142–43
Mount Olympus National Monument, 76, 494
Mowat, Farley, 300, 351
Muir, John, 1–2, 10, 26, 42, 56, 57, 105, 134, 155, 169–70, 178, 416, 417, 429
California ranch of, 10, 13–14
character of, 4, 15, 44
death and legacy of, 167–70, 211
Douglas on, 302–3
education, 7
Emerson on, 1–2
as glaciologist, 19
on grizzly bears, 30
Harriman Expedition and, 16–20, 30–31, 40, 53
Hetch Hetchy damming issue, 93–94, 166–67
influence on Snyder, 390, 398
on Lake Clark, 145
as mentor of conservation movement, 18–19
naming of natural features, 12
sketches of glaciers, 13
theology and glaciers, 9–10
tourism and, 19–20
trips to Alaska, 3–15
Muir Glacier, 6, 12, 13
Muir of the Mountains (Douglas), 302–3, 497, 499
Muir Woods, 111
multiple-use concept, for national parks, 304
Murie, Adolph, 273–74, 281
background and education, 289–91
Wilderness Society and, 282
wolves and, 285–89, 291–93, 295–99, 301
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