Mr. Hornaday's War (36 page)

6
. Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 15, p 11.

7
. Pringle,
Theodore Roosevelt,
p. 17; (nicknames) Morris,
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,
p. 144.

8
. Hornaday papers, Library of Congress, Box 1, folder marked 1909–1930.

9
. Millard,
River of Doubt,
pp. 14–18.

10
. TR diary entry, February 3, 1880,
American Memory,
Library of Congress website,
memory.loc.gov
.

11
. TR diary entry, July 4, 1880, ibid.

12
. Millard,
River of Doubt,
p. 17.

13
. McCullough,
Mornings on Horseback,
p. 293.

14
. TR diary entry, February 17, 1884,
American Memory,
Library of Congress website,
memory.loc.gov
.

15
. Watts,
Rough Rider in the White House.

16
. “The Strenuous Life” is the name of a speech TR gave in Chicago, April
10, 1899, from Roosevelt,
The Strenuous Life,
p. 1.

17
. “History,” Theodore Roosevelt National Park Information Page,
http://www.theodore.roosevelt.national-park.com
.

18
. Report of the U.S. National Museum, 1888 (Washington, D.C.: 1890), p. 60.

19
. Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 11, p. 19.

CHAPTER 7: “A NOBILITY BEYOND ALL COMPARE”

1
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 101.

2
. Hornaday,
Extermination of the American Bison,
p. 30.

3
. Ibid., pp. 215, 220, 221.

4
. Ibid., p. 82.

5
. Cody,
Adventures of Buffalo Bill Cody,
p. 111.

6
. Hornaday,
Extermination of the American Bison,
p. 137.

7
. Ibid., pp. 135–42; McHugh,
Time of the Buffalo,
pp. 258–64.

8
. Rinella,
American Buffalo,
pp. 221–24.

9
. Utley,
Indian Wars,
p. 144.

10
. Isenberg,
Destruction of the Bison,
p. 103.

11
. Hornaday,
Extermination of the American Bison,
p. 179.

12
. All quotes from ibid., pp. 205–12.

13
. Ibid., pp. 212, 213.

14
. Hoyt-Goldsmith,
Buffalo Days,
p. 349.

15
. Lott,
American Bison,
pp. 70–72.

16
. Dodge,
Hunting Grounds of the Great West,
p. 116.

17
. McHugh,
Time of the Buffalo,
pp. 13–17.

18
. Dodge,
Hunting Grounds of the Great West.

19
. Ibid., p. 116.

20
. Marder,
Indians in the Americas,
p. 6.

21
. Hornaday,
Our Vanishing Wild Life,
p. x.

22
. Hornaday,
Thirty Years War for Wild Life,
p. 1.

CHAPTER 8: EXPLORATIONS AND ADVENTURES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA

1
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 53; also Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 3.

2
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 49.

3
. Ibid., p. 54.

4
. Ward,
Catalogue of Casts of Fossils.

5
. Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 38.

6
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” pp. 4, 30.

7
. Smith,
History of Dickinson County,
p. 378.

8
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 14.

9
. Ibid., p. 15.

10
. Ibid., p. 13.

11
. Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 27.

12
. Ibid., pp. 20, 29.

13
. Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 1, p. 13.

14
. Ibid., chapter 2, p. 2.

15
. Hornaday,
Evolution of a Zoologist,
p. 19.

16
. Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 38.

17
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 33.

18
. Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 3, pp. 1–4.

19
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 39.

20
. “Paul du Chaillu,”
National Geographic
14 (1903): 282–85.

21
. Ibid., p. 283.

22
. Du Chaillu,
Adventures in the Great Forest,
p. 53.

23
. “Behind the Scenes: King Kong,”
Stereotype & Society
blog, May 27, 2007,
http://stereotypeandsociety.typepad.com
.

24
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 55.

25
. Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 4, pp. 52–54.

26
. Ibid., chapter 4, p. 2.

CHAPTER 9: YEARNING, TOO MUCH, FOR FAME

1
. Hornaday letter to Ward, January 8, 1875, Hornaday papers, Library of Congress.

2
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
chapter 1, p. 1.

3
. Chester Jackson journal, pp. 6–7, cited in Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 62.

4
. Dehler, “American Crusader,” pp. 43, 44.

5
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” pp. 65,
66.

6
. Hornaday, “The Crocodile in Florida,” p. 320.

7
. Grigg, “Morphology and Physiology of the Crocodylia,” pp. 326–36.

8
.
Bite Force,
Dangerous Encounters series,
National Geographic
documentary, dir. Brady Barr, 2007.

9
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 68.

10
. Hornaday,
Hornaday's American Natural History,
p. 320; Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 45.

CHAPTER 10: THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE

1
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 77.

2
. Ibid., p. 79, from draft of
Eighty Fascinating Years,
Hornaday papers, Library of Congress, box 19, folder 7, pp. 2–4, and folder 9, p. 2.

3
. Letter from Hornaday to Josephine Hornaday, Hornaday papers, Library
of Congress, box 1, March 20, 1900.

4
. Ibid., box 19, folder 9, pp. 3–4.

5
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 80.

6
. Ibid., p. 138; Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
p. 491.

7
. Chester Jackson journal, cited in Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 82.

8
. Ibid., p. 88.

9
. “Canoe and Rifle on the Orinoco,”
Youth's Companion
59, March 19–April 16, 1885.

10
. “Orinoco River,”
New World Encyclopedia Online,
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/
.

11
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
p. 57.

12
. Hornaday letter to Theodore Roosevelt, May 18, 1914, cited in Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 49.

13
. Hornaday to Chester Jackson, December 15, 1876, cited in Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 139.

CHAPTER 11: MAN-EATERS OF THE ANIMALLAI HILLS

1
. Modern atlases spell the name of the South India hills as “Anaimalai.” Here, I use the spelling Hornaday used in his
Two Years in the Jungle,
“Animallai.”

2
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
p. 128; “Norfolk jacket” from photos of Hornaday dressed for hunting, in Hornaday,
Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies,
pp. 59, 83, 215.

3
. A.J. Liebling, “The Great Gouamba,”
New Yorker,
December 7, 1946, p. 88.

4
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
p. 119.

5
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 139.

6
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
p. 152.

7
. Corbett,
Man-Eaters of Kumaon,
pp. 12, 16.

8
. Headley,
H. M. Stanley's Wonderful Adventures,
p. 240.

9
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
p. 174.

10
. Letter dated June 25, 1877, Hornaday papers, Library of Congress, box 1, folder 1877—1900.

11
. Hornaday letter to Jackson, October 18, 1877, cited in Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 137.

12
. Ibid.

13
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
p. 474.

14
. Ibid., p. 465.

15
. Ibid., p. 156.

16
. Dialogue section adapted from ibid.

17
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
p. 158.

18
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” pp. 183, 186.

CHAPTER 12: DARWIN'S FIRESTORM

1
.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley,
D. Appleton & Co., 1902, vol. 1, 189.

2
. Alfred Russel Wallace website,
http://wallacefund.info/
.

3
. Barlow,
Autobiography of Charles Darwin,
p. 122.

4
. Forbes,
In the Steps of the Great American Zoologist William Temple Hornaday,
p. 57.

5
. Wallace website,
http://wallacefund.info/
.

6
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
p. 420.

7
. Ibid., p. 335.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 237.

10
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
p. 356.

11
. Ibid., pp. 357, 465.

12
. Letter to the
Literary Gazette,
October 12, 1855, in Wallace,
My Life,
p. 342.

13
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
pp. 359–65.

14
. Dialogue adapted from ibid.

15
. Ibid., p. 408.

16
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 245.

17
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
p. 405.

18
. Ibid., p. 407.

19
. Hornaday, “On the Species of Bornean Orangs, with Notes on Their Habits,” pp. 438–55.

20
. Twain, quoted in Sheldon,
Mark Twain,
chapter 9.

21
. From foreword to Carnegie,
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie.

22
. Carnegie,
Round the World,
p. 77.

23
.
Beacon
(Boston), October 10, 1885.

24
. Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 80.

25
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
p. 488.

26
. Hornaday letter to Jackson, December 2, 1879.

27
. Hornaday,
Two Years in the Jungle,
dedication.

CHAPTER 13: “A THIEF IN THE NIGHT”

1
. Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 9, p. 1.

2
. Kudos to Lawrence Bechtel for this insight.

3
. From a 1931 letter to Rosalie Edge, quoted in Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 92.

4
. Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 9, p. 2.

5
. “Spencer Fullerton Baird,”
Encyclopedia Dickinsonian Online,
http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/
.

6
. Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 9, p. 2.

7
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 570.

8
. Cole,
German Carp in the United States,
pp. 543, 544; Ben Schley, “A Century of Fish Conservation” (1871–1971),” Conservation History, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, May 21, 2009.

9
. Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 9, pp. 3–5.

10
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” p. 571.

11
. Baker,
National Zoological Park,
p. 446.

12
. Ibid., p. 575.

13
. Wood,
The Origin of Public Bison Herds in the United States,
pp. 157–82; Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 9, p. 5.

14
. Neihardt,
Black Elk Speaks,
p. 33.

15
. Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 9, p. 5.

16
. Ibid., chapter 9, p. 11.

17
. “Samuel Pierpont Langley,”
Flying Machines,
http://www.flyingmachines.org/
.

18
. Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 105.

19
.
New York Public Opinion
op-ed, cited in
Report of the Smithsonian Institution,
1888, p. 44.

20
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” pp. 587–98.

21
. Dehler, “American Crusader,” p. 106.

22
. Dolph, “Bringing Wildlife to the Millions,” chapter 9, pp. 9–11.

23
. Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 9, p. 9.

24
. Ibid., chapter 9, p. 11.

CHAPTER 14: A DREAM DEFERRED

1
. Hornaday,
Eighty Fascinating Years,
chapter 9, p. 11.

2
. Ibid., chapter 9, p. 12.