Murie, Donald, 280
Murie, Joanne, 280
Murie, Margaret E., 131
Murie, Margaret “Mardy” Thomas, 263, 351, 398, 451, 452
Adolph Murie and, 290, 298–99
Arctic NWR and, 453–57, 463, 467, 469–70, 472–74, 489, 492–93, 496
Arctic Range and, 359–60
children of, 279–80
Douglas and, 381, 382
education of, 271, 274, 275
Leopold and, 358, 359
Marshall and, 280–81
meets, marries, and travels with Olaus, 271–78
Sheenjek Expedition and, 373–76, 381–85
Wilderness Society and, 254–55, 282–84
writing of, 279–80
youth in Alaska, 264–71
Murie, Martin, 278, 279, 371, 390
Murie, Olaus, 209, 271–73, 349
Adolph Murie and, 290, 298–99
Arctic NWR and, 454–59, 461–62, 463, 467, 469–70, 472–74, 489
Arctic Range and, 359–60, 368
children of, 279–80
Disney productions and, 447, 459
Douglas and, 375–76, 378–79
drawings by, 274, 276, 280, 293, 470
health of, 371–72, 461–62, 492
Jones and, 432
Leopold and, 358
marriage and honeymoon, 275–78
Marshall and, 254–55
research and reports for U.S. Biological Survey, 229, 273–79
Seton and, 293n
Sheenjek Expedition and, 373–76, 382–85
Wilderness Society and, 280–84
Murphy, Bruce Allen, 304
Murphy v. Butler, 449
musk oxen (Ovibos moschatus), 29, 442–43
My Dogs in the Northland (Young), 293
My Way Was North: An Alaskan Autobiography (Dufresne), 215
My Wilderness: The Pacific West (Douglas), 379, 385, 473, 479–80
Nancarrow, Bill, 299
Nash, Roderick Frazier, 125, 249, 367
Nation, The, 239, 250, 329
National Audubon Societies, 158
National Conference on Outdoor Recreation, 210
National Conservation Association, 77, 107, 173
National Geographic magazine, 47, 228, 298, 363
National Geographic Society, 113–14
national monument designation, established by Roosevelt, 158
National Park Service, 291, 298, 361
National Parks Association, 129
National Parks: The American Experience (Runte), 143
National Parks, The (Duncan and Burns), 326
National Petroleum Reserve, 374, 385, 439
National Progressive Republican League, 112
National Rifle Association (NRA), 182–83, 225, 229
National Wildlife Federation (NWF), 468, 488
Native Alaskans, 20, 26, 33, 43, 121, 145, 181
artifacts taken by Harriman Expedition, 30–31
citizenship and, 221
disease and, 411
Hornaday’s criticism of, 174–75
Marshall and, 254
Matthiessen and, 441
missionaries to, 42
Muir’s observations on, 4, 29
overfishing by, 155
overhunting by, 159
see also Aleut people; Gwich’in people; Inupiat; Tlingit; Yupik
Natural History (Wood), 197
Naturalist in Alaska, A (A. Murie), 297
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), 107
Nature Conservancy, 300
Nature’s State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier (Kollin), 6, 92
Naval Petroleum Reserve, 218–19, 294, 374, 446, 473
N by E (Kent), 199, 229
Nelson, Edward W., 63, 127–28, 130, 140, 142, 173, 208–9, 278
Nelson, Gaylord, 365
Never Cry Wolf (Mowat), 351
Newhall, Beaumont and Nancy, 337
New Mexico Game Protection Association (NMGPA), 171
New Statesman, 198
New York, 156
New York Conservation Society, 39, 132
New Yorker, 443
New York Evening Post, 101
New York Herald Tribune, 250, 464
New York Times, 80, 95, 97, 108, 152, 446, 465
New York Tribune, 3
New York World, 198
New York Zoological Society, 150, 155, 363–364, 373, 457, 468, 470
Nobel Peace Prize, 86
No Place of Grace (Lears), 52
No Room for Bears (Dufresne), 215
North American Indian, The (Curtis), 46–47
“Northeast Alaska: The Last Great Wilderness” (Collins and Sumner), 362
northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus), 34
Northern Rocky Mountain Forest Experiment Station, Montana, 236–38
Northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), 441
North from Malaya (Douglas), 377
Norwood, Vera, 353
Nunivak Island, 442–43
Nushagak Canning Company, 178–79
O’Fallon, James, 312
Of Men and Mountains (Douglas), 309, 310, 322
Of Wolves and Men (Lopez), 289
“Oil” (Snyder), 409
oil discovery and exploration, 48, 61–62, 212, 378–79
Arctic NWR, 456, 460–61, 467–68, 472–73, 472n, 484–85, 490
Harding administration, 217–19
Union Oil spill, 304–5
World War II and North Slope, 294–95
Old Yukon: Tales, Trails, and Trials (Wickersham), 78–79
Olson, Lars Matt, 192–93
Olson, Sigurd, 299, 365, 464, 488, 491
Olympic range elk (Cervus roosevelti), 39
On the Road (Kerouac), 417, 423
oology, proposed banning of, 157
Oomingmak: The Expedition to the Musk Ox Island in the Bering Sea (Matthiessen), 442–43
Osborn, Fairfield, Jr., 458, 459
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 373, 374
Osgood, Wilfred, 179
O’Shaughnessy Dam. See Hetch Hetchy, damming issue
Oshinsky, David, 308n
Our National Parks (Muir), 6
Our Plundered Planet (Osborne), 458
Our Vanishing Wild Life (Hornaday)
Hornaday’s conservationism and T. Roosevelt’s support of, 149–61, 211
influence on Leopold, 163–64, 166
Outlook, 102, 149, 155, 175, 211
T. Roosevelt and, 71, 95, 128, 153–54, 157, 165–68, 171, 175–76
“Overturning Roosevelt’s Work” (Pinchot), 206
Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 204
Pacific, University of, 13
Pacific Fisherman, 117
Pacific loon (Gavia pacifica), 62
Pagel, Joel E. (Jeep), 292n
Palache, Charles, 416–17
Panama Canal, 79
Paris Review, 435–36, 441
Parker, Fess, 445
Parkman, Francis, 437
passenger pigeon, 153, 358–59
“Passing of the Maine Wilderness, The” (Vreeland), 146
Passion for Nature, A (Worster), 12
Paul, William, Sr., 221
Pauley, Edwin, 319
Payne-Aldrich Act, 108
Pearson, Gilbert, 227
Peary, Marie Ahnighito, 229
Pelican Island, Florida, 158
Peltier, Leonard, 441–42
Pencovic, Francis Herman. See Venta, Krishna
Pennsylvania, 118
People of the Deer (Mowat), 300
People’s Forest, The (Marshall), 255
permafrost, 55
Permanent Wildlife Protection Association, 149
pesticides. See DDT
Peterson, Roger Tory, 438, 464, 470
Peterson, Val, 465
petroleum. See oil discovery and exploration
Philadelphia Inquirer, 105
P
hillips, Fred, 180
Pinchot, Cornelia, 322
Pinchot, Gifford, 57, 107, 155, 158, 220
Alaskans’ opinion of, 109–11
Boy Scouts of America award in honor of, 102
Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger and, 91
as chief of U.S. Forest Service, 72
Douglas and, 302, 310, 314, 321–22
F. Roosevelt and, 250–51
feud with Bollinger over development of Alaska, 75–80, 110, 314
fired by Taft, 73–74, 80–85, 107–8
forest preservation and, 50, 51, 58, 92
Hetch Hetchy damming issue and, 93
Marshall and, 243–44
opinion of Hornaday, 158n
opinion of Taft administration, 96, 103
prescience of, 85
T. Roosevelt and, 72, 107, 108, 111, 117, 119–20, 205–6
Pine Cone, The, 171–72, 173
Pioneers of Alaska, 457
Place in Space, A (Snyder), 391
Plimpton, George, 435–36, 441
“Plus Ça Change” (Whalen), 400
Podhoretz, Norman, 423
Poets on the Peaks (Suiter), 396
Poindexter, Miles, 89
“Point Lobos: Animism” (McClure), 400–401
polar bear (Ursus maritimus), 14, 24–26
porcupine (Erethizan dorsatum), 185
Port Angeles Evening News, 348
Port Ashton, Alaska, 269–70, 271
Post, Wiley, 283
Powell, John Wesley, 18
Preble, E. A., 180
Pribilof Islands
Disney’s efforts to protect seals of, 343–47, 356
Muir and, 14
slaughter of seals on, 34–35, 48, 53, 89, 97–98
as wildlife refuge, 150, 159
Price, Overton, 97
primeval lands, use of term, 361
Project Chariot, 403–6, 452
“Proposed Arctic Wilderness International Park, A” (Collins and Sumner), 362
Pruitt, William, 405
Pursuit of Wildness, The (Brooks), 36
Quiet Crisis, The (Udall), 492
Quinn, Davis, 226–27
Race Rock (Matthiessen), 435
Random House colophon, 200
“Raven’s Beak River at the End” (Snyder), 202
Rayburn, Sam, 445
Readers’ Digest, 318
Rearden, Jim, 355
Recreation Program for Alaska, A (Collins), 364
Redfield, William C., 54
red-throated loon (Gavia stellata), 62
Reed, Franklin, 256
Reich, Charles, 380
Reiger, George, 348
reindeer, 43, 158, 276–77, 316–17. See also caribou
Reindeer Act, 317
Remington, Frederic, 289
Report upon the Condition of Affairs in the Territory of Alaska, A (Elliott), 36
“Revealing and Concealing Coloration in Birds and Animals” (Roosevelt), 111
Rexroth, Kenneth, 398, 400
Reynolds, Harry, 57
Rhode, Clarence, 368–69, 493
Arctic NWR and, 463, 467, 468, 469–71
death of, 475–76
Rhode, Jack, 475
Richardson, Wilds Preston, 79
Richardson Highway, 79
Richfield Oil Corporation, 467, 469
Ring of Bright Water (Maxwell), 431–32
“Riprap” (Snyder), 399
Rivers, Ralph, 476, 489
Rock and Surf (Adams), 334
Rockefeller, John D., 217
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 318–19
Rocky Mountains, 134
Rodgers, William H., Jr., 376
Rodman, Hugh, 219
Rogers, George, 404
Rogers, Will, 182, 283, 412
Romanes, George John, 12, 87
Roosevelt, Alice, 83
Roosevelt, Archie, 106, 164
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 206, 223, 227, 245, 250–54, 256, 280, 314–18, 326
Roosevelt, Kermit, 67, 74, 86, 95, 119, 172
Roosevelt, Quentin, 164
Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell, 54, 55, 153
Roosevelt, Ted, 105, 106
Roosevelt, Theodore, 35, 37, 232, 370, 462, 494
Adirondacks and, 234
Alaska Purchase and, 31
birds and, 62–64, 87–88, 156–58
Boy Scouts of America and, 101–3
Brady and, 44
Bronx Zoo and, 151
Camp Fire Club of America and, 95–97
constitutional rights for Alaskans and, 36
Curtis’s photographs influence on, 45–47
death and legacy of, 203–8, 211
election of 1912 and, 98, 107, 111–12, 115–20
federal law and, 48–49
forest preservation and, 48–62
Grand Canyon and, 164–65
Harriman Expedition’s influence on, 38–45
interest in Alaska and Arctic, 24–26, 67–71
in later life, 172–76
letter to Leopold, 172
on Muir, 168
national monument designation established by, 158
as naturalist, 100, 112–14
“new nationalism” and, 98–99, 106
Nobel Prize and, 86
as not antidevelopment, 79–80
popular authors’ defense of, 89–93
primary tenets of, 47–48, 65–66
protection of bull moose, 108–9
Roosevelt, Theodore (cont.)
review of and support of Hornaday’s Our Vanishing Wild Life, 149–61, 211
Sheldon and, 128, 129, 136
snowy owl and, 23–24, 37
speaking on Africa, 99–100
Taft administration and, 73–74, 82–85, 98
Taft’s lack of support for conservation policies of, 72–81, 88–89, 91, 207
Thayer and, 111
totem poles and, 30
Vreeland, 146–47
Wilson’s policies and, 161–62
Yosemite and, 94
Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr., 42–43
Roosevelt elk (Cervus roosevelti), 122, 127, 348–49
Ross Dam, 391
Ross’s gull (Rhodostethia rosea), 439
Rough Riders, 41, 116, 172
Round River (Leopold), 357
Rowan, Carl, 495
Rowling, J. K., 24
Runte, Alfred, 143
Rushmore, Mount, 222
Russia
exploitation of Alaska, 27, 32
purchase of Alaska from, 5, 31–32, 36
see also Pribilof Islands
Russian-American Company, 32
Russian Orthodox Church, 32
Russo-Japanese War, 86
“Sadie” (Matthiesen), 435
Saint Elias mountains, 134
Saint Lawrence Seaway, 362
Saint Lazaria bird reservation, 64, 159
Saint Matthew Island Group, 159
Salamina (Kent), 229
salmon. See fish and fishing
Salten, Felix, 347
Salzmann, Siegmund, 347
Sand County Almanac, A (Leopold), 65–66, 295, 361, 401
sandhill crane (Grus canadensis), 153
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, 3, 9, 15, 42
San Souci, Daniel, 497
Sarasin, Paul, 86
Sarber, Hosea, 229
Saving America’s Wildlife (Dunlap), 301
Schaller, George, 375
Scheffer, Victor B., 284
Schickel, Richard, 346
Schrank, John, 119
Scientific Monthly, 244, 361
Scoresby, William, 24–25
Scratching the Beat Surface (McClure), 403
Scribner, Arthur H., 95
Scribner’s Monthly, 3, 86
Scripture of the Golden Eternity (Kerouac), 414
Sea Around Us, The (Carson), 300, 351, 449
Seal Island (film), 343�
�47, 356
Seal Treaty (1911), 152
seals
Disney’s efforts to protect, 343–47, 356
fur seals, 97–98
slaughtered on Pribilof Island, 34–35, 48, 53, 89, 97–98
T. Roosevelt and Hornaday’s efforts to protect, 151–53, 160
sea otters, 34, 152, 426–27, 429–34
Sears, John, 252
Seaton, Fay, 464, 465
Seaton, Fred, 464–66, 472n
Arctic NWR and, 463–64, 466–69, 473–74, 476, 488–91, 493–94
Seaton, Gladys, 465
seaweed, 416
Sedna (sea goddess), 421
Seizing the Light: A History of Photography (Hirsch), 333
Selig, William, 101
Selous, Frederick, 136
Sequoia-Kings National Park, 226, 305–7
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 96, 144, 293, 293n, 363, 461
Sevareid, Eric, 378
Severson, Hans, 180
Seward, William, 31–32, 53, 114n
Seward Gateway, 253
Sheenjek Expedition, 373–76, 380–86, 451, 480
Sheenjek River, 359–61
sheep, 127–28, 129–30, 164
Sheldon, Carolyn, 209
Sheldon, Charles, 108, 112, 164, 287
background, 126–27
brown bears and, 156, 161
death of, 222, 223n, 238
described, 122–23, 125
Hornaday and, 210–11
journals of, 123–25, 132, 138, 142
legacy of, 209–10
Mount KcKinley and, 121–22, 137–44, 474
T. Roosevelt and, 165, 205
U.S. Biological Survey and, 122–23, 127–37
Sheldon, Louisa Walker Gulliver, 123, 124, 136
Sheldon, William, 209
Sheldon Jackson College, 43
Shenandoah National Park, 222, 257
Shepard, Ward, 243
Sherwood, Morgan, 230
Sierra Club, 19, 37, 167, 168, 302, 324, 366
Arctic NWR and, 462–63, 488
Sierra Club Bulletin, 362
Sierra Club v. Morton, 305–7
Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail (Adams), 325–26
Silcox, Ferdinand, 389
Silent Spring (Carson), 438, 448–50, 499
Simon, James F., 312, 377
Sinclair, Harry F., 218
Singing Wilderness, The (Olson), 464
Sitakaday region, 7
Sitka, Alaska, 32, 41, 42, 43–44, 55, 108
Sitka bear, 161
Sitka deer (Odocoileus hemonius sitkensis), 159–60
Sitka Indian Industrial Training School, 43
Sitka National Historic Park, 482
Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), 56
Six Gallery, readings at, 400–402
Sloan, Kay, 17
Slotkin, Richard, 140
smew (Mergellus albellus), 64
Smithsonian Institution, 88, 99, 134, 186, 200
Snedden, L. W., 466–67, 469, 473–74
Snow Dome, 12
snow geese (Chen caerulescens), 455
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