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  Cabot, Molly, 93, 117, 118, 120, 123

  Cabot, Will, 58

  Cameron, Elizabeth “Lizzie,” 127, 130

  Cameron, Martha, 130

  Canada, 145, 146, 190

  Cape Town, 188

  Captains Courageous (Kipling), 1, 146–53, 156

  Harvey Cheyne in, 146, 148, 149, 151–53, 155, 159, 193

  Caputo, Philip, 205, 206, 211–12, 217–19

  Carman, Bliss, 94

  Carnegie, Andrew, 181

  Cather, Willa, 7, 56

  Century Magazine, 143

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, 4, 201

  Chicago, Ill., 21

  slaughterhouses in, 25–26, 117

  China, 99, 104, 105, 206

  Chinatown, San Francisco, 22–23, 117

  Chion-in temple bell, 70–71, 73

  Christianity, 77

  CIA, 204, 206, 207, 209–11, 220

  City of Peking, 19

  Civil and Military Gazette, 101

  Civil War, 17, 29, 50, 94, 133, 150, 172

  Clemens, Samuel, see Twain, Mark.

  Clemens, Susy, 15–17, 29

  Cleveland, Grover, 50–51, 143–46

  colonialism, see imperialism and colonialism

  Columbia River, 23–25

  Concord, Mass., 34

  Conland, James, 125, 146, 147, 178, 191

  Connecticut River, 1, 90, 91, 118, 120, 132

  Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A (Twain), 15

  Conrad, Joseph, 4, 67, 219

  Coppola, Francis Ford, 216

  copyright agreements, 28–29, 51

  cotton trade, 17

  Crane, Stephen, 7, 56, 103, 151

  Cuba, 172, 173, 189

  Daisy Miller (James), 24, 47–49, 60, 61

  Dante Alighieri, 36

  Darwinism, 7, 41, 84, 103, 195

  Dawbarn, Robert, 99

  Day’s Work, The (Kipling), 98, 105

  Debs, Eugene, 129

  de Forest, Lockwood, 32, 88–89, 155

  de Forest, Meta, 89

  Dewey, George, 172, 173

  Dickens, Charles, 20

  Dickinson, Emily, 36

  Diem (Ngo Dinh Diem), 208–10, 220

  Dispatches (Herr), 218

  “Disturber of Traffic, The” (Kipling), 58

  Divine Comedy (Dante), 36

  Dodge, Mary Mapes, 82–83

  Doubleday, Frank, 94

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, 2, 94–95

  Dracula (Stoker), 54

  Dulles, Allen, 207

  Dunham, Theodore, 176

  Ear of Dionysius, The (Balfour), 42–44

  Eliot, T. S., 4, 166

  Elms, the, 159

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 6, 35, 45, 69, 92–93, 121, 122, 165–66, 179, 219

  Empress of India, 65

  “En-dor” (Kipling), 198, 200

  England, see Britain

  English Library, 60

  English Patient, The (Ondaatje), 12

  “Epitaphs of the War” (Kipling), 197–98, 220

  “Error in the Fourth Dimension, An” (Kipling), 98

  “Experience” (Emerson), 165

  “False Dawn” (Kipling), 28

  “Feet of the Young Men, The” (Kipling), 136–37

  Fern, Fanny, 91

  “Finest Story in the World, The” (Kipling), 38–45, 94, 192

  First Presbyterian Church, Colorado Springs, 89

  fishing, 143–44, 146–47, 149, 154–55, 156

  Fleming, Ian, 163

  “Floods, The” (Kipling), 194

  Fog Warning, The (Homer), 149–50, 150

  Follen, Karl, 92–93

  Following the Equator (Twain), 168

  forests, 129

  Fourth Dimension, 98, 101, 104, 105, 109

  Freeman, Mary Wilkins, 118, 119

  Freemasonry, 94–95

  French, Daniel Chester, Minuteman, 34–36, 35

  Freud, Sigmund, 3–4, 123

  Frost, Robert, 37

  Garrard, Florence, 55

  “Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, The” (Kipling), 99, 101–3

  Gay, Peter, 123

  Germany, 187, 206

  Ghazipur Factory, 104–5

  Gilder, Richard Watson, 143–44

  Gilmour, David, 6

  Glass Bead Game, The (Hesse), 163

  Gosse, Edmund, 51–54, 62

  Gramsci, Antonio, 4, 5

  Grant, Ulysses S., 50

  Great Britain, see Britain

  Great War, 187, 197–200

  Greene, Graham, 163

  Guam, 172

  “Gunga Din” (Kipling), 5

  Hancock, Herbie, 3

  Hardy, Thomas, 52, 159

  Harkins, Paul D., 208–10, 215, 219

  Harper, Joseph Henry, 32

  Harris, Joel Chandler, 24–25, 113

  Harte, Bret, 21–23

  Hawaii, 172

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 5, 35, 93

  Hay, John, 126, 127, 129, 133–34, 145, 171–74, 180, 204

  Hayes, Rutherford B., 50

  “Heathen Chinee, The” (Harte), 23

  Heinemann, William, 53–54, 58, 60, 62

  Hemingway, Ernest, 7, 160

  Herder, Johann Gottfried, 37

  Herr, Michael, 204, 216, 218

  Herring Net, The (Homer), 149–50

  Hesse, Hermann, 163

  Hill, Alexander, 20

  Hill, Caroline, 28

  Hill, Edmonia “Ted,” 20, 26–28, 34, 36, 103, 104, 182–83

  Hitchcock, Ripley, 132

  Ho Chi Minh, 207

  Hofstadter, Richard, 146

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 93

  Homer, Winslow, 149–50, 150

  Hong Kong, 19

  Horace, 74, 76, 188

  Hornaday, William Temple, 127–28

  Howe, Irving, 4

  Howells, Elinor, 50

  Howells, William Dean, 49–50, 56, 93, 155

  Hunt, E. J., 71

  hunting, 128–30, 137–38, 143–44

  “hustle,” use of word, 215

  “you can’t hurry/hustle the East,” 203, 204, 208, 209, 211–17, 219

  Hustler, The, 215

  Huston, John, 5, 216, 217

  “If—” (Kipling), ix, 2–5, 9, 11, 12, 74, 122, 193–94, 215–16

  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou), 5

  imperialism and colonialism:

  anti-imperialist movement, 181

  of Britain, see British Empire

  Kim and, 163–64, 166–67

  Kipling’s view of, 4, 131, 174, 179–80, 219

  postcolonial theory, 4, 5

  Roosevelt’s view of, 131

  of U.S., 4, 8, 172–75, 179

  “The White Man’s Burden” and, 4, 174–77, 179, 180

  Imperial War Graves Commission, 197, 199, 200

  “In an Opium Factory” (Kipling), 104

  India, 1, 6, 9, 10, 31–32, 54, 88, 95, 126, 167–68

  Bombay, 1, 2, 17, 19, 20, 66, 67, 70, 155

  Britain and, 1, 12, 19, 98–100, 104, 115–17, 163–64, 166–69, 203, 219

  cotton in, 17

  Native Americans and, 21

  opium in, 98–100, 104–9

  paranormal in, 41

  Revolt of 1857 in, 166–67

  Simla, 31, 41, 100, 167

  wolf-child stories in, 115–16, 168

  Indian Railway Library, 19

  “In the House of Suddhoo” (Kipling), 41

  “In the Penal Colony” (Kafka), 177

  Iraq, 204, 217, 219
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  Jackson, Helen Hunt, 93

  James, Alice, 48, 59, 155

  James, Henry, 3, 8, 24, 27, 47–49, 54, 56–63, 196

  Balestier and, 48, 49, 53, 54, 56, 60, 61

  James, William, 2, 3, 7, 41, 62, 89, 155–56, 173

  Jameson, Leander Starr, 187

  Japan, 8, 19, 63, 65–78, 207

  bank failure in, 74–75, 81, 159

  Chion-in temple bell in, 70–71, 73

  earthquake in, 73–74, 81

  shrines in, 87

  tea in, 72–73

  Jarrell, Randall, 4

  Jewett, Sarah Orne, 118, 119

  Jews, 25

  “Jews in Shushan” (Kipling), 5

  Johnson, Lyndon, 210

  Jungle Book, The (Kipling), 1–4, 8, 83, 95, 111–17, 122–23, 126, 128, 144, 168, 180

  Mowgli in, 2, 83, 112–15, 117, 122–23, 148, 159, 188

  Just So Stories (Kipling), 1, 2, 83, 134, 159

  “How the Alphabet Was Made,” 134–36, 181–82

  illustrations for, 86–88, 88

  Kafka, Franz, 177, 178

  Karnow, Stanley, 208

  Keats, John, 38, 39, 48

  Kennedy, John F., 206, 208–10

  Khanh, Nguyen, 211

  Kim (Kipling), 1, 2, 5, 12, 78, 84, 104, 126, 157, 159–69

  Lockwood Kipling’s bas-relief illustration for, 167

  Vietnam War and, 204–8, 220

  King, Clarence, 127, 130

  Kipling, Alice (mother), 9, 17, 32, 42, 62, 66, 85, 96, 97, 103, 158

  Kipling, Alice “Trix” (sister), 17, 42, 43, 55, 85, 103, 178, 198, 200

  Kipling, Caroline “Carrie” Balestier (wife), 56–57, 57, 59, 60, 62, 75, 82, 88, 90, 94, 118, 125, 126, 131, 132, 147, 151, 153, 154, 157, 171, 176

  honeymoon of, 8, 62, 63, 65–66, 71–72, 75, 81, 159

  marriage of, 48, 49, 60–63

  pregnancies of, 72, 146, 168

  Kipling, Elsie (daughter), 192

  birth of, 146, 147

  Kipling, John (son), 171, 185, 192, 197

  birth of, 158

  military service and death of, 197–98, 200

  Kipling, John Lockwood (father), 6, 9, 17, 18, 18, 31, 32, 41, 62, 66, 85, 96, 97–98, 108, 109, 118, 126, 158, 159, 161, 192

  Beast and Man in India, 107, 115

  On the Road, 167

  Kipling, Josephine (daughter), 84–86, 96, 125, 126, 133, 134, 134

  birth of, 82, 83

  death of, 176, 181–83, 188, 190, 191, 196

  Kipling, Rudyard:

  at Bateman’s, 191–92, 194–96, 207

  birth of, 1, 5

  at Bliss Cottage, 82, 88, 119, 159

  in Brattleboro, see Brattleboro, Vt.

  childhood of, 9, 19, 57, 67–68, 70, 158

  death of, 4, 201

  drugs and, 8, 100–101, 104, 106

  fame of, 187

  first name of, 17

  in foster care, 9, 17–18, 68, 77, 85, 95–96, 100

  “Fourth Dimension” and, 98, 101, 104, 105, 109

  as Freemason, 94–95

  funeral for, 201

  honeymoon of, 8, 62, 63, 65–66, 71–72, 75, 81, 159, 212

  illness and delirium of, 176–79, 181, 187

  imperialism as viewed by, 4, 131, 174, 179–80, 219

  Imperial War Graves Commission position of, 197, 199, 200

  loss of fortune in bank failure, 74–75, 81, 159

  marriage of, 48, 49, 60–63

  Naulakha home of, 88–90, 90, 92, 94, 96, 97, 109, 125, 133, 134, 153, 155, 191

  in Naulakha study, 113

  as newspaper reporter, 15–19, 30, 101

  Nobel Prize awarded to, 3, 190–91

  Oxford degree awarded to, 3, 185–86, 186, 190–91

  paranormal as interest of, 8, 40–44

  photographs of, 18, 113, 186

  political opinions of, 187–90

  post office of, 133, 134–35

  predictive dream of, 198–201

  romantic life of, 27–28, 34, 45, 55–57

  in school, 18

  travel writing of, 21–23

  U.S. and, 6–8, 18, 35–36, 98, 109, 117–18, 156, 171–72, 180, 182–83, 188, 194, 212

  U.S. travels of, 19–28, 31–36, 45, 55, 131

  “you can’t hurry/hustle the East” quote of, 203, 204, 208, 209, 211–17, 219

  Knoepflmacher, Ulrich, 181–82

  Korea, 206

  Kotzebue, August von, 92

  Kyoto, 69–70

  Langley, Samuel, 127, 128, 130

  Lansdale, Edward G., 207–8, 220

  Lawrence, D. H., 5

  le Carré, John, 163

  Life, 211

  Light That Failed, The (Kipling), 55–56

  Lincoln, Abraham, 43, 50, 126, 133, 146

  “Lispeth” (Kipling), 5

  Little Women (Alcott), 27

  Lodge, George Cabot, 209

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, 127, 145, 173–75, 204

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 204, 208–10

  Lodge, Nellie, 127

  London, 45, 54–55

  London, Jack, 7, 122

  London Times, 180

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 8, 36–40, 43–44, 48, 93, 192

  tomb of, 33–34, 36, 38, 39, 45, 54

  “Long Trail, The” (Kipling), 59, 62, 136, 137

  Lost on the Grand Banks (Homer), 149–50

  Lovell, John, 51

  Macdonald, Fred, 58

  Macdonald, Henry “Harry,” 32, 57–58

  MacKaye, Steele, 82

  Maclear, Michael, 219

  Maine, 172, 173

  Man Who Would Be King, The, 216–18

  “Man Who Would Be King, The” (Kipling), 5, 95

  Marshall, Henry Rutgers, 89–90

  McClellan, George, 94

  McKinley, William, 126, 133, 137, 172–74

  Melville, Herman, 149

  Metternich, Klemens von, 92–93

  Michtom, Morris, 138–39

  Milner, Alfred, 187

  Mine Own People (Kipling), 54

  Minuteman (French), 34–36, 35

  Mitchell, Joni, 3

  Moby-Dick (Melville), 149

  Mommsen, Theodor, 192

  Monroe Doctrine, 145

  Morris, William, 9, 32, 157, 158

  “Mother Lodge, The” (Kipling), 95

  “Mother Maturin” (Kipling), 103

  Mount Monadnock, 1, 66, 121–22

  Mussolini, Benito, 5

  Myers, Frederic, 40–41

  “My Lost Youth” (Longfellow), 37, 38, 40

  “My Son’s Wife” (Kipling), 195

  National Zoo, 8, 127–28, 130–32

  Native Americans, 21, 31, 37, 126, 130, 169

  naturalism, 7

  Nature (Emerson), 165

  Naulahka, The (Kipling and Balestier), 56, 63, 212–15

  Naulakha, 88–90, 90, 92, 94, 96, 97, 109, 125, 133, 134, 153, 155, 191

  Kipling in study at, 113

  New England, 1–2, 63

  Newman, Paul, 215

  New York Times, 32, 137

  New York Tribune, 175

  Ngo Dinh Diem, 208–10, 220

  Nixon, Richard, 209

  Noah’s Ark, 88, 94–96, 107, 127

  in Kipling’s insignia, 87–88, 95

  Kipling’s tales of, 82–84

  toy, 84–86

  Nobel Prize, 3, 190–91

  North End House, 157–59

  Norton, Charles Eliot, 126, 145, 146, 149, 181, 188

  Norton, Sally, 181

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bsp; Noyes, John Humphrey, 92, 120

  “Old Times on the Mississippi” (Twain), 29

  Olmsted, Frederick Law, 127

  Olney, Richard, 144–45

  Ondaatje, Michael, 12

  Oneida Community, 92, 120

  Oneida wolf traps, 120–21

  On the Road (J. Lockwood Kipling), 167

  opium, 98–109, 164

  Oppenheim, Janet, 44

  Orwell, George, 9, 11

  Overseas Club, 67, 68, 74

  Oxford University, 3, 185–86, 186, 190–91

  Pain, Pleasure, and Aesthetics (Marshall), 89

  paranormal and spiritualism, 8, 40–44, 198

  Patton, George, 208

  Paul, Saint, 180

  Perry, Matthew, 66

  Phantasms of the Living (Myers), 40–41

  Philippines, 172–75, 189, 204, 207, 211

  Phillips, Eugenia Levy, 133

  Phillips, Philip, 133

  Phillips, William Hallett “Bill,” 126, 128–30, 133–37, 188

  Plain Tales from the Hills (Kipling), 21, 101–2

  Poynter, Agnes, 62

  Poynter, Edward John, 9, 62

  Pressnitz, Vincenz, 93

  Puck of Pook’s Hill (Kipling), 188–89, 192

  Puerto Rico, 172

  Putney, Vt., 92, 120

  “Quiquern” (Kipling), 128

  “Recessional” (Kipling), 179–80, 187

  Remington, Frederic, 150

  Revere, Paul, 48

  Rewards and Fairies (Kipling), 187–89, 192–93

  Rhodes, Cecil, 187–89

  Rice, Cecil Spring, 71

  Richardson, H. H., 89

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 98

  “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” (Kipling), 20

  Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 17, 68

  Rodin, Auguste, 3, 185

  Roosevelt, Kermit “Kim” Jr., 204, 206–7

  Roosevelt, Theodore “Teddy,” 2, 3, 7, 8, 126, 128–31, 145, 146, 150, 173–75, 189, 204, 206

  hunting of, 128–29, 137–38, 139

  in Kipling’s dream, 177–81

  Rough Riders of, 173

  teddy bears and, 138–39

  wild animals as viewed by, 122

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 9

  Rottingdean, 157–58

  Roy, Arundhati, 6

  Royal Academy, 9

  Rumor of War, A (Caputo), 205, 211–12, 217, 218

  Rushdie, Salman, 6

  Rusk, Dean, 210

  Said, Edward, 5, 84

  St. Nicholas, 82–83

  Saint-Saëns, Camille, 185

  Salisbury, Lord, 144

  salmon cannery, 24, 25

  Salt Lake City, Utah, 24

  Samoa, 59, 66, 178

  Sand, Karl Ludwig, 92

  San Francisco, Calif., 19–20, 22, 24

  Chinatown in, 22–23, 117

  Schama, Simon, 4

 

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