The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (168 page)

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, 380
n
, 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, 760
n

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), 285
n

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
, 264
n

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, 469, 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

of Lowell, 227

of Whitman, 221–22, 330

Political Animals
(Donahue and Trump), 257

Polk, James K., 243

Ponce de Leon, Juan, 724, 737

Poole, William Frederick, 231

Populist Party (People’s Party), 268, 292

Portland, Ore., 293, 453–57, 548–51, 667

Portland Audubon Society, 715

Port Neuf National Forest, 779

Portsmouth, Treaty of (1905), 618, 652

Post Office, U.S., 226, 251, 309, 387

Potomac River, 45, 237, 407, 412, 566

pottery, 707

poultry industry, 51

poverty, the poor, 27, 41, 43, 127, 405

Powell, John Wesley, 74, 290, 302, 422, 423, 450, 455, 525, 535

Prairie, The
(Cooper), 40

prairie dogs, 155

prehistoric sites of 1907, 673–707

“Preliminary Life of the Birds of the Adirondacks” (Merriam), 108

“Preliminary Synopsis of the American Bears, A” (Merriam), 300

Preserving Different Pasts
(Rothman), 755

President’s Committee for Wildlife, 741

press:

newly assertive, 683

Pinchot’s manipulation of, 803

T.R.’s manipulation of, 682

see also specific publications

Pribilof Islands, 76–77, 563, 579, 651

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington,
299, 305

Proceedings of the Conference of Governors,
771

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
, 704–5

Proctor, Alexander, 257, 387

Proctor, Redfield, 391

Progressive Party,
see
Bull Moose Party

Progressive Petticoats
(R. B. Roosevelt), 79

prostitution, 287, 289

Protas, Josh, 670–71

Public Land Commission, 665

Public Lands Convention, 681

Pueblo, 280, 414, 415, 645, 646, 654, 671, 689, 707

Puerto Rico, 21, 359, 384, 397, 445–49, 582–83

daughter Alice’s goodwill tour to, 552

Spanish-American War and, 312, 318, 446, 460

T.R. in, 445, 669

puffins, tufted, 551

Pulitzer, Joseph, 310, 683

Pulmelly, Raphael, 203

Putnam, Carleton, 123

pygmies, 657–61,
659

Pyne, Stephen J., 754

quail, 83, 133, 264, 417

Quigg, Lemuel Ely, 331–32

Quillayute Needles, 714, 718–21, 728

rabbits, 47, 216, 558, 560, 798–99

Peter, 558

rabies, 606

raccoons, 136, 216, 715, 734

racism, 243, 285
n

Bronx Zoo and, 657, 658

of Reid, 26, 27

of T.R., 243, 255, 274–75

railroads, 238, 239, 245, 271–72, 354, 378, 426–27, 508, 594, 617, 633, 635, 682

in Alaska, 563, 806–7

buffalo promotion by, 588

Great Loop tour by, 507, 508, 509, 514, 516, 520, 522, 525, 529, 536, 552

in Oklahoma, 587

“Roosevelt Special,” 336, 507, 509, 552, 593, 596, 597, 600

Rough Riders and, 315–19

timber needs of, 236–37

see also specific railroads

rain forests, 445–49, 470

Olympic, 148, 305, 306, 551, 811

“Ranch, The” (Roosevelt), 195

ranching, ranches, 150, 167, 598, 665

T.R.’s investment in, 153, 162, 165, 168

see also
Elkhorn Ranch; Maltese Cross Ranch

“Ranching” (Roosevelt), 208
n

Ranching with Roosevelt
(Lang), 159, 161, 164, 280

Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail
(Roosevelt), 6, 151, 195, 201, 212–13, 223, 247, 263

Remington’s illustrations for, 201, 212, 639

Virginian compared with, 464

“Ranchman’s Log ‘Schack’,” 149, 170

Randolph, John, 229

rangers, 20–21, 399, 565, 765, 779

in Oklahoma, 589–90

see also
forest rangers

Raymond L. Ditmars
(Wood), 732

“Real and Sham Natural History” (Burroughs), 504, 505

recapitulation theory, 349

Reclamation Act, 535, 663

reclamation projects, 425, 692, 694

Reclamation Service, U.S. (later the Bureau of Reclamation), 423–26, 535,663,675,771,772, 801

Everglades and, 734, 743

Klamath basin and, 746–48

Reconstruction era, 41, 79

Records of North American Big Game
(Ward and McCabe), 206

Red River, 73, 129, 590, 594, 610

Red River country, 134–37

Red River valley, 37, 152, 158, 249, 568

Redwood National Park, 751
n

redwoods, 532–37, 547, 556, 751–53, 771

Reeves, L. P., 730
n

reform movements, 14, 142, 150, 164–65, 168, 170, 222, 287

T.R. as assemblyman and, 142, 150, 164

T.R. in civil service and, 212, 217, 226, 256

T.R.’s abandoning of, 170

T.R.’s governorship and, 336, 338–39, 372–73

Reid, Mayne, 25–28, 37, 58–59, 60, 73, 83, 99, 134, 164, 177, 245, 370, 417, 430, 697

on Florida, 320

Grinnell influenced by, 187

Winning of the West
influenced by, 228, 229

Reid, Whitelaw, 788

Reiger, John F., 189, 264

Remington, Frederic, 195, 207–9,
208
, 262, 309, 311, 639–40, 641, 687–88

sculpture by, 335, 640, 776

T.R. compared with, 212–13

T.R.’s correspondence with, 241, 639

T.R.’s work illustrated by, 151, 201, 207, 208, 212, 265, 639

Reptile Book, The
(Ditmars), 731–33

reptiles, 37, 279, 731–35

Republican Roosevelt, The
(Blum), 370, 384

Republicans, 1, 138, 142, 190, 292, 297, 354–55, 404, 522, 523, 642, 667, 673–76, 784

as conservationists, 14, 20, 77, 224

in Iowa, 647–48

New York State, 336, 347–48, 355

progressive, 791, 793

radical, 27

Texas and, 585

T.R.’s investigation of, 226

see also specific people and elections

Republic Oil Company, 634

reservations, 275, 373, 451, 510, 765

in Dakotas, 226, 253–55

in Nebraska, 226, 254, 255, 628