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73.
David Dary,
True Tales of the Prairies and Plains
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007), p. 119.

74.
T.R. to Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (March 1, 1903).

75.
“Big Sticks for Souvenirs,”
New York Times
(March 5, 1905), p. 6.

76.
“Nation Mirrored in Marching Host,”
New York Times
(March 5, 1905), p. 2.

77.
“President Chooses Bible,”
New York Times
(March 4, 1905), p. 2.

78.
T.R. to Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (March 6, 1905).

79.
“Devil’s Lake Basin in North Dakota,” North Dakota Science Society (July 2008).

80.
Stan Tekiela,
Birds of the Dakotas
(Cambridge, Minn.: Adventure, 2003), p. 275.

81.
Craig Bihrle, “100 Years of Refuges in North Dakota Is Centerpiece for National Event,”
North Dakota Outdoors
(March 2003), p. 3.

82.
Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture, Fiscal Year Ended June 30
(Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905), p. 310.

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1.
Lewis L. Gould, “Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Disputed Delegates in 1912,”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
Vol. 80 (July 1976); and Paul D. Casdorph,
A History of the Republican Party in Texas,
1865–1965 (Austin: Pemberton, 1965).

2.
T.R. to Cecil Andrew Lyon (March 16, 1905).

3.
“Negro Mob Killed Sheriff,”
New York Times
(March 17, 1905), p. 6.

4.
William Caire, Jack D. Tyler, Bryan P. Glass, and Michael A. Mares,
Mammals of Oklahoma
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989), p. xi.

5.
Bill Neeley,
The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker
(Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 1995), p. 221. Also Edward Charles Ellenbrook,
Outdoor and Trail Guide to the Wichita Mountains of Southwest Oklahoma
, 8th rev. ed. (Lawton, Okla.: In the Valley of the Wichitas, 2008), pp. 6–9.

6.
George Bird Grinnell,
When Buffalo Ran
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1920), p. 22. Also Richard C. Rattenbury,
Hunting the American West: The Pursuit of Big Game for Life, Profit, and Sport, 1800–1900
(Missoula, Mont.: Boone and Crockett Club, 2008), p. 207.

7.
“The Wichita National Forest and Game Preserve,” Miscellaneous Circular No. 36, USDA (May 1925).

8.
Alfred Runte,
Trains of Discovery:
Western Railroads and the National Parks
(Niwot, Colo.: Roberts Rinehart, 1990), pp. 19–21. Reprint.

9.
Andrew C. Isenberg,
The Destruction of Bison: An Environmental History
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 177.

10.
Raymond Gorges,
Ernest Harold Baynes: Naturalist and Crusader
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928), pp. 74–75. Also Joel Berger and Carol Cunningham,
Bison: Mating and Conservation in Small Populations
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), p. 29.

11.
Congressional Record
, 59 Cong. 1 Sess; Pt. I, p. 103.

12.
Officially the bison were protected by proclamation (June 2, 1905, 34 Stat. 3062) by President Theodore Roosevelt, in Otis H. Gates (comp.),
Laws Applicable to the United States Department of Agriculture
(Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913, rev. 1912), p. 111.

13.
David Dary,
The Buffalo Book: The Full Saga of the American Animal
(Chicago, Ill.: Swallow, 1974), pp. 233–236.

14.
Jack Dan Haley, “A History of the Establishment of the Wichita National Forest and Game Preserve, 1901–1908,” unpublished master’s thesis, University of Oklahoma, 1973.

15.
T.R.,
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
(New York: Macmillan, 1902), p. 102.

16.
Neeley,
The Last Comanche Chief,
p. 143.

17.
“History Files,” Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, Refuge Headquarters, Indiahoma, Okla.

18.
Wichita Mountains (Albuquerque: Southwest Natural and Cultural Heritage Association, 1992). This monograph was compiled by the staff at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Reserve.

19.
John R. (Jack) Abernathy,
In Camp with Theodore Roosevelt, or the Life of John R. (Jack) Abernathy
(Oklahoma City: Times-Journal, 1933).

20.
Jon T. Coleman, “Foreword,” in John R. Abernathy,
Catch ’Em Alive Jack
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006), p. v.

21.
Matthew Rex Cox, “Roosevelt’s Wolf Hunt.” (Advance article from the
Oklahoma Encyclopedia.
)

22.
T.R.,
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
, p. 111.

23.
“President Off to Hunt; Taft Sits on Lid,”
New York Times
(April 4, 1905), p. 1.

24.
W. LaBarre,
The Peyote Cult
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989).

25.
William T. Hagan,
Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993), p. 57.

26.
“Star House,”
Prairie Lore,
Vol. 41, No. 2, Book 15.

27.
Neeley,
The Last Comanche Chief,
p. 199.

28.
“Buffalo Hunt Is Held: Game Shot from Auto,”
New York Times
(June 11, 1903), p. 5.

29.
“Killed by Roosevelt’s Train,”
New York Times
(April 5, 1905), p. 2.

30.
“Roosevelt Says He’s a Typical President,”
New York Times
(April 6, 1905), p. 2.

31.
“Col. Roosevelt Greets His Old Rough Riders,”
New York Times
(April 8, 1905), p. 1.

32.
T.R.,
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter,
p. 100.

33.
David Minor, “Samuel Burk Burnett,”
The Handbook of Texas
(online; January 9, 2008, update).

34.
Time
(May 22, 1939).

35.
“Dr. Lambert Dies; Narcotics Expert,”
New York Times
(May 10, 1939), p. 23.

36.
Frederick Enterprise
(April 15, 1905). (Summary story.)

37.
Abernathy,
Catch ’Em Alive Jack
, p. 100.

38.
W. M. Draper Lewis,
The Life of Theodore Roosevelt
(Philadelphia and Chicago: John C. Winston, 1919), p. 177.

39.
Frederick Enterprise
(April 15, 1905).

40.
“President in Wild,”
Washington Post
(April 10, 1905), p. 1.

41.
Abernathy,
Catch ’Em Alive Jack
, pp. 103–104.

42.
Coleman, “Foreward,” in Abernathy,
Catch ’Em Alive Jack,
p. ix.

43.
Caire et al.,
Mammals of Oklahoma
, pp. 281–285.

44.
“Why a Refuge,” Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Archive, Indiahoma, Okla.

45.
T.R.,
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
, p. 101.

46.
Abernathy,
Catch ’Em Alive Jack,
p. 102.

47.
Francis Haines,
The Buffalo
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001), pp. 200–201.

48.
T.R.,
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
, p. 103.

49.
“President in Foot Races,”
New York Times
(April 13, 1905), p. 1.

50.
George Bird Grinnell,
When the Buffalo Ran
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920), p. 82.

51.
T.R.,
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
, p. 104.

52.
David E. Lantz,
The Relation of Coyotes to Stock Raising in the West
(Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905).

53.
Abernathy,
Catch ’Em Alive Jack
, p. 115.

54.
T.R.,
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
, pp. 113–114.

55.
Abernathy,
Catch ’Em Alive Jack,
p. 127.

56.
Abernathy,
Catch ’Em Alive Jack,
p. 115.

57
Frederick Enterprise
(April 15, 1905). (Clipping at the Wichita Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.)

58.
T.R.,
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
, p. 116.

59.
Ibid., p. 106.

60.
Haines,
The Buffalo,
p. 6.

61.
Neeley,
The Last Comanche
, pp. 220–221.

62.
Clyde L. Jackson and Grace Jackson,
Quanah Parker: The Last Chief of the Comanches—A Study in Frontier History
(New York: Exposition, 1963), p. 129.

63.
Ibid., p. 128.

64.
Alice Marriot and Carol K. Rachlin,
American Indian Mythology
(New York: Mentor, 1972), p. 170.

65.
Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge (Albuquerque, N.M.: Southwest Natural and Cultural Heritage Association, 1997).

66.
Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel,
The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952), p. 206.

67.
T.R.,
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1886), p. 260.

68.
Tenth Annual Report of the Bison Society, 1915–1916
(New York: American Bison Society, 1916), pp. 20–22. Also Robert Dorman,
It Happened in Oklahoma
(New York: Morris Book Publishing, 2006), pp. 53–56.

69.
Abernathy,
Catch ’Em Alive Jack,
p. 126.

70.
“Speeding to the Rockies,”
Washington Post
(April 14, 1905), p. 3.

71.
“President Appeals to Press,”
New York Times
(April 15, 1905), p. 1.

72.
“Orville H. Platt Dies,”
New York Times
(April 22, 1905), p. 1.

73.
Douglas C. McChristian, “The Great Health Mecca and Summer Resort,” Historical Resources Study (June 2003), Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Sulphur, Okla. (Unpublished.)

74.
Reports of the Department of Interior 1919
, Vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1919), p. 1025.

75.
Louis A. Coolidge,
An Old Fashioned Senator: Orville H. Platt of Connecticut
(New York: Putnam, 1910), p. 623.

76.
Edward E. Dale, Jr., “The Grasslands of Platt National Park, Oklahoma,”
Southwestern Naturalist
, Vol. 4, No. 2 (September 15, 1959), pp. 45–60.

77.
Platt Historical District File, Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Sulphur, Okla.

78.
“The President’s Return,”
New York Times
(April 24, 1905), p. 10.

79.
“President Cheered at Open-Air Church,”
New York Times
(May 1, 1905), p. 1.

80.
“Skip,”
Washington Post
(April 11, 1907), p. 12.

81.
T.R. to Kermit Roosevelt (May 25, 1905).

82.
William H. Harbaugh,
The Theodore Roosevelts’ Retreat in Southern Albemarle: Pine Knot 1905–1908
(Charlottesville, Va.: Albemarle County Historical Society, 1993).

83.
T.R.,
A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open
(New York: Scribner, 1916), app. B, p. 366.

84.
Ibid., pp. 96–97.

85.
Harbaugh,
The Theodore Roosevelts’ Retreat in Southern Albemarle
, p. 4.

86.
T.R. to Kermit Roosevelt, June 11, 1905.

87.
Ibid.

88.
Sylvia Jukes Morris,
Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady
(New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1980), p. 3.

89.
T.R. to George Herbert Locke (September 27, 1905).

90.
Abernathy,
Catch ’Em Alive Jack
, p 149.

91.
“Sat in President’s Chair,”
New York Times
(February 10, 1906), p. 1. (Special to the
Times
.)

92.
T.R.,
Outdoors Pastimes of an American Hunter,
p. 124.

93.
T.R.,
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
, p. 287.

94.
T.R. to John Burroughs (October 2, 1905).

95.
“Strenuous Sport,”
New York Times Book Review
(November 4, 1905).

96.
Foster Harris, “T.R. and the Great Wolf Hunt,”
Oklahoma Today
(Fall 1958), p. 31.

97.
Abernathy,
Catch ’Em Alive Jack
, p. 168.

98.
Ibid., p. 172.

99.
T.R. to John Abernathy (June 4, 1906).

100.
Abernathy,
Catch ’Em Alive Jack,
p. 173.

101.
T.R. to Clarence Don Clarke (December 8, 1905).

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