Conception of conservation… against market hunting, okay with “controlled hunting.”

Bibliography

• Museum
• Autobiography
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvvsqchf.6?seq=1

The objects of the Club shall be: https://archive.org/details/americanbiggameh00roosev/page/6/mode/2up

1. To promote manly sport with the rifle.
2. To promote travel and exploration in the wild and unknown, or but partially known, portions of the country.
3. To work for the preservation of the large game of this country, and, so far as possible, to further legislation for that purpose, and to assist in enforcing the existing laws.
4. To promote inquiry into and to record observations on the habits and natural history of the various wild animals.
5. To bring about among the members the interchange of opinions and ideas on hunting, travel, exploration, on the various kinds of hunting-rifles, on the haunts of game animals, etc.
   

[Kipling & Roosevelt link]

Veracious reader – The Boy Hunters by Captain Mayne Reid (RB 5)

SEE Document

• Roosevelt – strenuous life, literary nationalism & naturalism
• Hornaday to Roosevelt letter
• TR manliness / Natural history/autobiography (mentions his museum)
• Campfire Club – Roosevelt
• Natural History

• Went west before it before it was “tamed”- wanted to shoot a bison, though heavily depleted because it was a symbol of the “old West” (RB 17)
• Dakota Territory ranch 
• friends with Jackson Turner (RB 143)