Contributor
Miller, Char, 1951- editor.
ImprintLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Descriptionxxiv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note:Part 1. Field notes -- Beauty and tragedy in the wilderness: the naturalism of Theodore Roosevelt / Darrin Lunde -- Theodore Roosevelt: "The outdoor man who writes" / Thomas Cullen Bailey and Katherine Joslin -- "I So Declare It": Roosevelt's love affair with birds / Duane G. Jundt -- Urban wild: Theodore Roosevelt's explorations of Rock Creek Park / Melanie Choukas-Bradley -- Part 2. Outside influences -- "For Generations Yet Unborn": George Bird Grinnell, Theodore Roosevelt, and the early conservation movement / John F. Reiger -- Play, work, and politics: The remarkable partnership of Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot / Char Miller -- Friendship under five inches of snow: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite / Barb Rosenstock -- The cowboy, the crusader, and the salvation of the American buffalo / Clay S. Jenkinson -- Part 3. Natural politics -- Theodore Roosevelt, the West, and the New America / Elliott West -- Theodore Roosevelt and conservation: looking abroad / Ian Tyrrell -- Memorializing Theodore Roosevelt: Si monumentum requiris, circumspice / Clay S. Jenkinson.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Drawing on an array of approaches-biographical, ecological and environmental, literary and political-Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena analyzes different elements of this strenuous man's manifold encounters with the Great Outdoors."-- Provided by publisher.
