Douglas Brinkley - The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying that the game belongs to the people. So it does; and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. The greatest good for the greatest number applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.

T HEODORE R OOSEVELT , A Book-Lovers
Holidays in the Open (1916)

And learn power, however sweet they call you, learn power, the smash of the holy once more, and signed by its name. Be victim to abruptness and seizures, events intercalated, swellings of heart. Youll climb trees. You wont be able to sleep, or need to, for the joy of it.

A NNIE D ILLARD , Holy the Firm (1984)

The Education of a Darwinian Naturalist

Birds Above AllThe Face of GodSitting at the Feet of Darwin and HuxleyThe Swashbuckling Adventures of Captain Mayne ReidBoy Hunters and the White BuffaloThe Last LinkThe Foraging AntsBear Bob StoriesCollecting for the Roosevelt MuseumDrawn to the Hudson River ValleyOf James Fenimore Cooper and the Adirondack ParkAlbert Bickmore and the American Museum of Natural HistoryIn Search of Live Animals

Animal Rights and Evolution

Protection of Harmless WildlifeFeeling PainT.R.s Family and the Humane MovementHenry Bergh and the SPCAAre Turtles Insects?Theodore Sr. and the Civil War SurrogateThe Art of TaxidermyThe Talented Mr. John BellTravelling to EuropeJackal Hunting in PalestineJourney Down the Ancient NileDamn the Old Mummy CollectorsComprehending the Origin of SpeciesEvolution from the StorkThomas Huxley and Mans Place in Nature

Of Science, Fish, and Robert B. Roosevelt

Learning the Latin BinomialsIn the Shadow of LinnaeusPreparing for HarvardTranquility in Oyster BayWhat Is Wilderness?With Moses Sawyer in the AdirondacksUnder the Sway of the American WestProtecting AlaskaThe Willful and Wily Robert Barnwell RooseveltFish of the Great LakesSave the ShadSeth Green and the HatcheriesThe Sage of Lotus LakeYachting in the Great South BayEels and EvolutionThe Frogs of IllinoisForgotten Mentor

Harvard and the North Woods of Maine

The Moosehead Lake HazingEvolution of the Red CrossbillsThe Loathsome Death of Frederick OsbornHomage to Edward Couess Bird KeyUnder the Wing of Arthur CutlerShorebirds of New York and New JerseyThe Philadelphia CentennialHarvard ZoologistsSummer Birds of the AdirondacksNorth Woods of MaineWill Sewall and the Art of Surviving in the WildAn Ode to Alice LeeThe Birth of Weasel WordsA Bull Moose in the MakingThoreaus Mount KatahdinGalumphing AboutMy Debt to Maine

Midwest Tramping and the Conquering of the Matterhorn

Boxing for HarvardThe Highs and Lows of ExuberanceMount Desert Island AglowThe Heroic Historian Francis ParkmanGoin to Chicago, ChicagoCompetitive Grouse Hunting in IowaTramping on the PlainsThe Red River Valley AppealGetting Serious about LawSou-Sou-SoutherlyHoneymooning in EuropeConquering the MatterhornBeware the New York AssemblymanSpencer Fullerton Baird and Americas AtticThe White Owl and the War of 1812

Chasing Buffalo in the Badlands and Grizzlies in the Bighorns

The Lordly BuffaloChugging on the Northern Pacific RailroadBarbed Wire on the Open RangeThe Badlands of North DakotaReveling in the Real EarthThe Great Buffalo HuntTurning Rancher and StockmanThe Maltese Cross BrandValentine Deaths of His LovesBighorns and BeyondLonely Bugle Call of ElkRolling Plains and Antelope HerdsGrizzly, King of the Rockies

Cradle of Conservation: The Elkhorn Ranch of North Dakota

Jottings AwayGrover Clevelands TriumphBadlands SnowThe Dominant Primordial BeastBeavering for FirewoodThe Fashion PlateA Trip After Bighorn SheepAn Adobe of Iron DesolationBirth of the Literary SportsmanOutmatched by George Bird GrinnellThe White Wolf and the Native AmericansThe Elkhorn Ranch and Conservationist ThinkingOld Bullion ReturnsDeputy Sheriff of Billings CountyCourting of Edith CarrowDefeated for Mayor of New York CityWinter of the Blue Snow

Wildlife Protection Business: Boone and Crockett Club Meets the U.S. Biological Survey

Ranch Life LoreOut of Big GameBirth of the Boone and Crockett ClubIdaho as Gods CountryRanch Life ContinuedFrederic Remington and Frontier TypesBurning the Midnight OilDr. Merriam, I PresumeThe Cyclone and the ShrewJaguar Eyes and the Flash of Green Fire

Laying the Groundwork with John Burroughs and Benjamin Harrison

The Late Great John BurroughsSharp Eyes of the NaturalistBusting Bad Guys at the U.S. Civil ServiceBrother Elliott Struggles with LifeWhos Not Afraid of Western Developers?Reading Elliott CouesBears, Bears, and More BearsThe Itinerant HistorianBullish against the Hay-Adams CircleAmericanism and The Winning of the WestCarousing at Sagamore HillThe Medora MagicYellowstone DaysSpringing into Action at the Metropolitan ClubPresident Benjamin Harrison Steps Up to the PlateCooke City CrooksThe Darwinian CowboyBirth of the National Forest SystemFrederick Jackson Turners Closed FrontierGrover Cleveland Picks Up the Conservationist TorchAwe and Admiration at Two Ocean Pass

The Wilderness Hunter in the Electric Age

Shooting Wild Boars in TexasThe Mighty Javelina ChargeDeadwood Days and Pine Ridge BluesThe Triumph of the Log CabinBoom and Bust at the Chicago Worlds FairThe Panic of 1893Albert Bierstadts MooseBoone and Crockett Club Ventures into PublishingW. B. Devereaux and Colorado Camera HuntingAmericanism of The Wilderness HunterPresident Grover Cleveland and the Yellowstone Game Protection Act of 1894Getting On with Interior Secretary Hoke SmithGarbage Dump BearsThe California National ParksGood-Bye to Brother ElliottSocial Darwinism Run Amok

The Bronx Zoo Founder

Clashes with Dr. C. Hart MerriamBuffalo ManiaWelcome to the New York Zoological SocietyMr. Madison GrantHusband Taxidermy and Dr. William Temple HornadayHunting in Foreign LandsNew York Police Chief DoldrumsSupport from Cornelius BlissSquabbling Over Bears and Coyotes With Dr. C. Hart MerriamCervus RooseveltAnchors Away with Hornets, Wasps, and YellowjacketsDaydreaming of the Faraway Olympic MountainsThe Forever Wild Mammals of the AdirondacksWhere the Buffalo Roam Stamp (or Pikes Peak)

The Rough Rider

The White Chief Clamors for WarRemember the MaineHere Come the Rough RidersFrom San Antonio to Tampa BayQuick-Come-See, There Goes Colonel RooseveltMusing over Edmund Demoulins and Anglo-Saxon SuperiorityDear Sweet JosephineCuban Wood DovesIn the Death Grip of Vultures and CrabsBeating Back the Spanish SharksRepairing in MontaukMascots RememberedGoing for the GovernorshipRemingtons Bronco BusterWalks with Leonard WoodThe Roosevelt SpecialVictory at the Ballot Box

Higher Political Perches

Smashing His Way into the GovernorshipReforming the New York Forest, Fish, and Game CommissionGifford Pinchot, My BoyThe Pinchot-LaFarge ExpeditionLearning about Forestry ScienceSparring with Easy Boss PlattThe Strenuous Life DoctrineCitizen Bird Flies into AlbanyThe Hallock BillBronx Zoo as Bird RefugeBurroughs the Bird-WatcherLobbying with Mr. DutcherThe American Ornithological Union Makes Its PlayAudubon Societies and the Lacey Act