The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (170 page)

writing habits of, 213–14, 223

writing style of, 28, 175, 180, 223

Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr., 39, 41–44, 67–69, 71, 82, 98, 103, 106, 119, 219, 580, 753

animal protection and, 42, 45, 46–47, 50, 53, 59

appearance of, 42, 109

Civil War avoided by, 53, 164, 165, 244, 334

death of, 109–10, 138, 167, 223

Elliott’s correspondence with, 128

foreign travels of, 35–38, 53,
56
, 57, 59–60, 416

hunting and, 46–47, 57

J. W. Pinchot’s friendship with, 340, 347

marriage of, 32

as museum founder, 2,
42
, 43–44, 63, 145, 202

philanthropy of, 41–44, 144

politics and, 100

puritanical nature of, 111, 128

T.R.’s career choice and, 67, 99

T.R.’s childhood and, 24, 29, 31, 32–33

T.R.’s clothes and, 98

T.R.’s correspondence with, 32–33, 104, 105

T.R.’s emulating of, 66, 140, 164, 197, 202, 369

Roosevelt, Tweed, 440

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 66–67

Roosevelt
(Wister), 122–23

Roosevelt and Son (financial firm), 67, 68

Roosevelt and Son hardware, 42

Roosevelt Bar, 315

Roosevelt County Park, 332

Roosevelt Dam, 425, 535, 776

Roosevelt family:

coat of arms of, 90

genealogy of, 63

Manhattan homes of, 30, 43, 65, 66

Roosevelt Hospital, 67

Roosevelt Island, 45

Roosevelt Museum of Natural History,
23
, 30–31, 37, 58, 65–67, 109, 268, 352

directors’ meetings of, 66–67, 202

donated to Smithsonian, 143–46

Roosevelt red ware, 707

Roosevelt Report, 421

roosters, 54, 559

Root, Elihu, 356, 377, 395, 397, 580, 620, 653, 788, 792

Rosen, Jonathan, 31

Rothman, Hal, 647, 755

Roughing It
(Twain), 796

Rough Riders, 18, 313–36,
316
, 466, 581, 610, 611, 743, 756

adoption of name, 258, 313

animal mascots of, 324–27,
326
, 332–33, 380

Arizona and, 314, 331, 403, 756, 775–76

in battles, 322–23, 777

in Colorado, 378–79

Cuban landing of, 321, 327

Great Loop tour and, 508, 523–24, 526, 527, 530, 534

in Montauk, 324, 325, 326, 331–34

park and forest protection and, 398–99, 403

reunions of, 354, 524, 594

showbiz side to, 316–17, 327

transport to Florida of, 315–19

tropical diseases and, 324

T.R.’s leadership of, 327, 339

in T.R.’s vice presidential campaign, 374

Rough Riders, The
(Roosevelt), 27, 324, 325, 329, 331

serializing of, 354

strenuous life in, 349

Rousmaniere, John, 139n

Rowle, Marion, 202

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, British, 48

Royal Zoological Museum, Dresden, 37

Rush, Frank, 625–29

Rush, Sylvester, 469

Russell, Charles M., 197

Russia, 48, 76, 413, 565, 566, 786, 788

Russia
, SS, 53, 54, 65

Russo-Japanese War, 565, 617, 618–19, 652, 669–70

Rutland Railroad, 392

Ryan, Kevin, 719

Sagamore Hill (formerly Leeholm), 91, 191, 197, 202, 223, 226, 289, 333, 359, 387, 449, 557, 619, 774

birds at, 686

construction of, 148, 149, 166, 169

pets at, 557, 561, 692

renovation of, 579, 670

trophy collection at, 6, 180, 209, 301, 374, 733, 762, 794

T.R.’s writing at, 213–14

Saint Helens, Mount, 690, 691

Saint Louis, Mo., 521–22, 567, 571

T.R.’s addresses in, 115, 507, 521

Saint Louis World’s Fair (1904), 521, 567, 578, 581, 657, 658

Saint Paul, Minn., 134

T.R. in, 137, 149, 152, 165, 168, 513

Saint Paul Island, 76, 651, 652

Saint Regis Lake, 71, 105

salmon, 90, 100, 144

Saltonstall, Dick, 126

Salt River, 20, 425, 776

Sampson, Alden, 280, 388

Samuels, Harold, 331

Samuels, Peggy, 331

San Andreas Fault, 637–38, 652, 690

San Antonio, Tex., 312, 313–14, 324, 327, 594, 597–98

Buckhorn Saloon, 314

Sanborn, Elwin R., 625, 626

Sanctuary! Sanctuary!
(Sharp), 717–18

Sandburg, Carl, 754

Sand County Almanac, A
(Leopold), 5, 706–7

Sand Hills, 129, 468–69

Sandoz, Mari, 188

San Francisco, Calif., 533–34, 536, 540, 734

earthquake in, 637–38, 642, 651–52, 690

Hetch Hetchy and, 789–90

plume hunters from, 745

restaurants of, 548, 550

San Francisco Mountain Region, 215

Sanibel National Wildlife Refuge, 742

San Jacinto Mountains, 291, 293

San Joaquin Valley, 376, 425, 680

San Juan Heights, Battle of (1898), 323, 324, 374, 777

San Juan Hill, 324, 332, 508, 777

Santa Fe, N.Mex., 524

Santa Fe Railway, 645–46, 685

Santa Rosa Island, 3

Santayana, George, 101

Santiago, Battle of (1898), 323, 324

Sargeant, Dudley A., 124

Sargent, Charles S., 543

Saturday Evening Post
, 641

Saturday Review
, 228, 791

Saving Darwin
(Gibson), 661

Sawyer, Moses, 71–72, 102, 105, 130

Scalp Hunters, The
(Reid), 25–26, 228

Schenck, Carl A., 428

Schmitz, Eugene, 638

Schurz, Carl, 203

Schwatka, Frederick, 562

Schwiebert, Ernest, 92

Science:

Merriam’s articles in, 301, 302, 304, 412

T.R.’s rebuttal in, 302, 304

Science and Philosophy of the Organism, The
(Driesch), 812

Scott, Mount, 611, 627

Scribner, 334, 780

Scribner’s
, 153, 237, 354, 621

Scribner’s Magazine
, 382, 434, 445–46, 563, 604, 666, 683, 794

Scribner’s Monthly
, 504

sculpture, 257, 335, 387, 640, 688

Sea Around Us, The
(Carson), 725

seals, 29–30, 215–16, 247, 385, 470, 564, 579, 651–54, 715

Grant’s protection of, 77, 651, 721–22

Seattle, Wash., 292, 293, 295, 551–52, 680

Secret Agent, The
(Conrad), 607

Secret Service, 427, 590, 618, 623, 695

Seemann, Berthold, 718

segregation, 372–73, 404–5, 660–61

self-reliance, 184, 267, 331, 350

Selkirk Mountains, 200, 209–10

Selous, Frederick Courtney, 762, 808

Senate, U.S., 12, 240, 366, 384, 459, 462, 575, 590, 642, 647, 673, 679

Cleveland’s forest lands act and, 293

Committee on Territories of, 269

Judiciary Committee of, 622

Sense of Place, Sense of Time, A
(Jackson), 672

Sequoia National Park, 267, 271, 286, 421, 450, 467, 541, 752

creation of, 236

protection of, 398, 399, 444

sequoias, 532–33, 536–37, 556, 752

Seton, Ernest Thompson, 504–5

Seven Springs area, 613–14

Sevier National Forest, 635, 764

Sewall, Bill, 111–20,
114
, 130, 140–43, 387, 641

Cutler’s correspondence with, 167

in Dakota Territory, 119, 170–71, 172, 179, 191, 193

T.R. compared with, 115

T.R.’s correspondence with,
140, 141, 167, 169–70, 196, 666

T.R.’s partnership offer to, 169–70

Sewall, Dave, 115

Sewall, Sam, 115

Seward, William, 76, 807

shad, 83, 84, 86, 87–88, 235

Shafter, William, 321

Shakespeare, William, 370

Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 102–3

Sharp, Dallas Lore, 717–18

Sharp, Patrick, 331

Shasta, Mount, 299–300, 541, 547, 548, 636, 680, 747

Shea-White Plumage Bill (1910), 731

sheep, 199, 207, 260
n
, 280, 426, 445, 563, 605, 676

bighorn, 178, 180–81, 183, 185, 205, 260
n
, 512, 629, 704, 705

overgrazing of, 235, 271, 288, 397

Pinchot-Muir dispute over, 295

slaughter of, 189

Sheldon, Charles, 808

Shell Keys, 712–13

Sheridan, Philip H., 203, 206, 244, 590–91, 617

Sherman, James S., 815

Sherman, William T., 168, 203, 244, 253, 618, 752

Sherman Antitrust Act, 634

Shoshone, 250, 509–10, 632

shrews,
34
, 60, 210, 215

Sierra Club, 455, 536, 539, 541, 543, 544, 547, 636, 790

“Significance of the Frontier in American History, The” (Turner), 240–41

Signs and Seasons
(Burroughs), 6, 219, 361

Simpson, Sloan, 593, 600, 620–21

Sinclair, Upton, 253, 721

Sioux, 156, 171, 253–55, 275, 509–10, 567, 581, 628

Lakota, 155, 253, 460, 632

Oglala, 609

Sioux City Journal
, 740

Siskiwit Islands, 18n, 616

Sitting Bull, 152, 253, 255

Skinner, John, 83

Slabsides, 368, 617, 768

slaves, slavery, 27, 34, 63, 435, 436

“Small Country Neighbors” (Roosevelt), 666

Smalley, Eugene V., 148

Smedes, Miss., 431, 434–35, 437, 442

Smith, Albert, 327

Smith, Alfred Charles, 61

Smith, Clinton G., 779

Smith, Hoke, 267–70, 288

Smith, Jedediah, 171

Smith, John, 691–92

Smith, John B., 333

Smith, Paul, 70

Smith, Walter, 499

Smith gang, 497–99

Smithsonian Institution, 100, 107, 282, 283, 584, 656

as “America’s attic,” 145

T.R.’s African safari and, 763, 779–80, 794

T.R.’s donations to, 143–46, 210, 215

Yellowstone buffalo and, 273

snakes, 91, 603, 608, 732, 734

snipes, 62, 109

snow buntings, 54, 95n

snowshoeing, 114–15,
114

Snyder, Gary, 548

socialism, 469, 783
n

Society of American Foresters, 779

Something in the Soil
(Limerick), 70

Son of the Middle Border, A
(Garland), 386

Sonoran Desert, 529, 707

Sons of Daniel Boone, 544

“Sou’-Sou’-Southerly” (Roosevelt), 138–39, 666

South Carolina Audubon Society, 730n

South Dakota, 149
n
, 152, 268

Black Hills of, 253–54, 273, 291, 400–403

buffalo repopulation in, 412, 511, 628

Great Loop tour in, 518–19

reservations in, 253–54

South Dakota Mining Company, 461

Southern Lumber Company, 503

Southern Pacific Railroad, 271

South Texas Coastal Plain, 251–52

Spain, Spaniards, 292, 298, 310–13, 315, 593, 781

forest conservation and, 446

navy of, 311, 312

unfitness of, 317–18, 331

Spanish-American War, 13, 18, 27, 303, 310–36,
326,
354, 446, 475, 508, 534, 703, 777

deaths in, 324, 329–30

Maine
incident and, 311, 312, 313, 318, 323

start of, 312

worst combat in, 328

see also
Rough Riders

sparrows, 54, 97, 108, 686, 700, 761–62

speeches of Roosevelt, 11, 149, 355, 371, 389, 390–91, 596, 597, 813

annual messages to Congress, 406, 408–11, 423, 457, 458, 472–73, 589–90, 667

Arbor Day, 683–84

at Governors’ Conference, 770–71

Grand Canyon, 19, 527

during Great Loop tour, 507, 511, 516–17, 521, 524, 525, 527, 530–31, 533–34, 547, 552

in Memphis, 694–95

in Mississippi, 701

to National Editorial Association, 691–92

in New England, 426, 427

New York annual addresses, 338–39, 353, 356–58

in Oklahoma, 600, 601, 614–15

in political campaigns, 255, 377

to State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 241

strenuous life in, 349–51

westward expansion, 231

Spencer, Herbert, 23, 349, 350, 430, 554

Spielberg, Stephen, 632

spoils system, 226, 236, 254, 580

spoonbills, roseate, 7, 10, 13, 483, 494–95, 728, 729

Sport in the Alps
(Baillie-Grohman), 373–74

Sprague, Henry L., 371

Sprague and Stearns expedition, 452

Spring-Rice, Cecil Arthur, 212, 252, 766–67, 789, 794

Sprinkle, William, 571–72, 713

Sprunt, Alexander, Jr., 725

squatters’ rights, 170, 190

squirrels, 32, 71, 136, 216, 560–61

flying, 768–69

Stachey, John St. Loe, 788

stamps, 309, 741

Standard Oil Company, 383, 575–76, 675, 760