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Drawing on an array of approaches—biographical, ecological and environmental, literary and political—
Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena analyzes the different elements of Roosevelt’s manifold encounters with the great outdoors.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Char Miller and Clay S. Jenkinson
Part 1. Field Notes
1. Beauty and Tragedy in the Wilderness: The Naturalism of Theodore Roosevelt
Darrin Lunde
2. Theodore Roosevelt: “The Outdoor Man Who Writes”
Thomas Cullen Bailey and Katherine Joslin
3. “I So Declare It”: Roosevelt’s Love Affair with Birds
Duane G. Jundt
4. Urban Wild: Theodore Roosevelt’s Explorations of Rock Creek Park
Melanie Choukas-Bradley
Part 2. Outside Influences
5. “For Generations Yet Unborn”: George Bird Grinnell, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Early Conservation Movement
John F. Reiger
6. Play, Work, and Politics: The Remarkable Partnership of Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot
Char Miller
7. Friendship under Five Inches of Snow: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite
Barb Rosenstock
8. The Cowboy, the Crusader, and the Salvation of the American Buffalo
Clay S. Jenkinson
Part 3. Natural Politics
9. Theodore Roosevelt, the West, and the New America
Elliott West
10. Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation: Looking Abroad
Ian Tyrrell
11. Memorializing Theodore Roosevelt: Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice
Clay S. Jenkinson
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
Char Miller is the W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and director of the Environmental Analysis Program at Pomona College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including
America’s Great National Forests, Wildernesses, and Grasslands.
Clay S. Jenkinson is Theodore Roosevelt Humanities Scholar and the founder of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University. He is the author of nine books, including
The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer in the Wilderness.
Summary
Drawing on an array of approaches—biographical, ecological and environmental, literary and political—Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena analyzes the different elements of Roosevelt’s manifold encounters with the great outdoors.
