Table of Contents
Maps xiv
A Note on Names xv
Introduction: Evolution and Extinction 1
Part 1 Boy Hunter (1849-1876)
Chapter 1 Audubon Park 17
Chapter 2 Member of the Class 38
Chapter 3 The Yale Expedition 43
Chapter 4 A Wild Gallop 59
Chapter 5 The Black Hills 75
Chapter 6 A Nation's Park 84
Part 2 Natural Historian (1876-1886)
Chapter 7 Age of Surprises 103
Chapter 8 Thorough Sportsman 112
Chapter 9 No Tenderfoot He 123
Chapter 10 Dear Partner 137
Part 3 Preservation, Reservation (1886-1807)
Chapter 11 The Audubon Society 149
Chapter 12 The Rock Climbers 156
Chapter 13 Fair Chase 167
Chapter 14 Ghost Dance 180
Chapter 15 Sacred Range 190
Chapter 16 Standing Menace 196
Chapter 17 The Ceded Strip 211
Chapter 18 A Plank 228
Chapter 19 Diverse Voices 242
Part 4 American Anthropologist (1897-1902)
Chapter 20 Eclipse of Memory 255
Chapter 21 The Alaska Expedition 269
Chapter 22 Indians of To-day 286
Chapter 23 Winning of the West 295
Part 5 Mr. and Mrs. Grinnell (1902-1911)
Chapter 24 The Captured Woman 309
Chapter 25 Temporary Sojourners 327
Chapter 26 Pulverizing Engine 348
Chapter 27 Stuyvesant Square 370
Part 6 Principled Pragmatist (1911-1919)
Chapter 28 Break the Old Habit 385
Chapter 29 Undue Destruction 402
Chapter 30 Fighting Cheyennes 413
Chapter 31 The National Park Service 430
Part 7 Gray Guardian (1919-1938)
Chapter 32 All This Better Work 455
Chapter 33 A Complex Life 478
Chapter 34 Melting Rapidly 496
Chapter 35 A Strong Strand 513
Epilogue: Do More Good 517
Acknowledgments 521
Notes 525
Bibliography 559
Illustration Credits 583
Index 587