Cabot, Molly, 93, 117, 118, 120, 123
Cabot, Will, 58
Cameron, Elizabeth “Lizzie,” 127, 130
Cameron, Martha, 130
Canada, 145, 146, 190
Cape Town, 188
Captains Courageous (Kipling), 1, 146–53, 156
Harvey Cheyne in, 146, 148, 149, 151–53, 155, 159, 193
Caputo, Philip, 205, 206, 211–12, 217–19
Carman, Bliss, 94
Carnegie, Andrew, 181
Cather, Willa, 7, 56
Century Magazine, 143
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 4, 201
Chicago, Ill., 21
slaughterhouses in, 25–26, 117
China, 99, 104, 105, 206
Chinatown, San Francisco, 22–23, 117
Chion-in temple bell, 70–71, 73
Christianity, 77
CIA, 204, 206, 207, 209–11, 220
City of Peking, 19
Civil and Military Gazette, 101
Civil War, 17, 29, 50, 94, 133, 150, 172
Clemens, Samuel, see Twain, Mark.
Clemens, Susy, 15–17, 29
Cleveland, Grover, 50–51, 143–46
colonialism, see imperialism and colonialism
Columbia River, 23–25
Concord, Mass., 34
Conland, James, 125, 146, 147, 178, 191
Connecticut River, 1, 90, 91, 118, 120, 132
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A (Twain), 15
Conrad, Joseph, 4, 67, 219
Coppola, Francis Ford, 216
copyright agreements, 28–29, 51
cotton trade, 17
Crane, Stephen, 7, 56, 103, 151
Cuba, 172, 173, 189
Daisy Miller (James), 24, 47–49, 60, 61
Dante Alighieri, 36
Darwinism, 7, 41, 84, 103, 195
Dawbarn, Robert, 99
Day’s Work, The (Kipling), 98, 105
Debs, Eugene, 129
de Forest, Lockwood, 32, 88–89, 155
de Forest, Meta, 89
Dewey, George, 172, 173
Dickens, Charles, 20
Dickinson, Emily, 36
Diem (Ngo Dinh Diem), 208–10, 220
Dispatches (Herr), 218
“Disturber of Traffic, The” (Kipling), 58
Divine Comedy (Dante), 36
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 82–83
Doubleday, Frank, 94
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 2, 94–95
Dracula (Stoker), 54
Dulles, Allen, 207
Dunham, Theodore, 176
Ear of Dionysius, The (Balfour), 42–44
Eliot, T. S., 4, 166
Elms, the, 159
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 6, 35, 45, 69, 92–93, 121, 122, 165–66, 179, 219
Empress of India, 65
“En-dor” (Kipling), 198, 200
England, see Britain
English Library, 60
English Patient, The (Ondaatje), 12
“Epitaphs of the War” (Kipling), 197–98, 220
“Error in the Fourth Dimension, An” (Kipling), 98
“Experience” (Emerson), 165
“False Dawn” (Kipling), 28
“Feet of the Young Men, The” (Kipling), 136–37
Fern, Fanny, 91
“Finest Story in the World, The” (Kipling), 38–45, 94, 192
First Presbyterian Church, Colorado Springs, 89
fishing, 143–44, 146–47, 149, 154–55, 156
Fleming, Ian, 163
“Floods, The” (Kipling), 194
Fog Warning, The (Homer), 149–50, 150
Follen, Karl, 92–93
Following the Equator (Twain), 168
forests, 129
Fourth Dimension, 98, 101, 104, 105, 109
Freeman, Mary Wilkins, 118, 119
Freemasonry, 94–95
French, Daniel Chester, Minuteman, 34–36, 35
Freud, Sigmund, 3–4, 123
Frost, Robert, 37
Garrard, Florence, 55
“Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, The” (Kipling), 99, 101–3
Gay, Peter, 123
Germany, 187, 206
Ghazipur Factory, 104–5
Gilder, Richard Watson, 143–44
Gilmour, David, 6
Glass Bead Game, The (Hesse), 163
Gosse, Edmund, 51–54, 62
Gramsci, Antonio, 4, 5
Grant, Ulysses S., 50
Great Britain, see Britain
Great War, 187, 197–200
Greene, Graham, 163
Guam, 172
“Gunga Din” (Kipling), 5
Hancock, Herbie, 3
Hardy, Thomas, 52, 159
Harkins, Paul D., 208–10, 215, 219
Harper, Joseph Henry, 32
Harris, Joel Chandler, 24–25, 113
Harte, Bret, 21–23
Hawaii, 172
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 5, 35, 93
Hay, John, 126, 127, 129, 133–34, 145, 171–74, 180, 204
Hayes, Rutherford B., 50
“Heathen Chinee, The” (Harte), 23
Heinemann, William, 53–54, 58, 60, 62
Hemingway, Ernest, 7, 160
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 37
Herr, Michael, 204, 216, 218
Herring Net, The (Homer), 149–50
Hesse, Hermann, 163
Hill, Alexander, 20
Hill, Caroline, 28
Hill, Edmonia “Ted,” 20, 26–28, 34, 36, 103, 104, 182–83
Hitchcock, Ripley, 132
Ho Chi Minh, 207
Hofstadter, Richard, 146
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 93
Homer, Winslow, 149–50, 150
Hong Kong, 19
Horace, 74, 76, 188
Hornaday, William Temple, 127–28
Howe, Irving, 4
Howells, Elinor, 50
Howells, William Dean, 49–50, 56, 93, 155
Hunt, E. J., 71
hunting, 128–30, 137–38, 143–44
“hustle,” use of word, 215
“you can’t hurry/hustle the East,” 203, 204, 208, 209, 211–17, 219
Hustler, The, 215
Huston, John, 5, 216, 217
“If—” (Kipling), ix, 2–5, 9, 11, 12, 74, 122, 193–94, 215–16
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou), 5
imperialism and colonialism:
anti-imperialist movement, 181
of Britain, see British Empire
Kim and, 163–64, 166–67
Kipling’s view of, 4, 131, 174, 179–80, 219
postcolonial theory, 4, 5
Roosevelt’s view of, 131
of U.S., 4, 8, 172–75, 179
“The White Man’s Burden” and, 4, 174–77, 179, 180
Imperial War Graves Commission, 197, 199, 200
“In an Opium Factory” (Kipling), 104
India, 1, 6, 9, 10, 31–32, 54, 88, 95, 126, 167–68
Bombay, 1, 2, 17, 19, 20, 66, 67, 70, 155
Britain and, 1, 12, 19, 98–100, 104, 115–17, 163–64, 166–69, 203, 219
cotton in, 17
Native Americans and, 21
opium in, 98–100, 104–9
paranormal in, 41
Revolt of 1857 in, 166–67
Simla, 31, 41, 100, 167
wolf-child stories in, 115–16, 168
Indian Railway Library, 19
“In the House of Suddhoo” (Kipling), 41
“In the Penal Colony” (Kafka), 177
Iraq, 204, 217, 219
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 93
James, Alice, 48, 59, 155
James, Henry, 3, 8, 24, 27, 47–49, 54, 56–63, 196
Balestier and, 48, 49, 53, 54, 56, 60, 61
James, William, 2, 3, 7, 41, 62, 89, 155–56, 173
Jameson, Leander Starr, 187
Japan, 8, 19, 63, 65–78, 207
bank failure in, 74–75, 81, 159
Chion-in temple bell in, 70–71, 73
earthquake in, 73–74, 81
shrines in, 87
tea in, 72–73
Jarrell, Randall, 4
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 118, 119
Jews, 25
“Jews in Shushan” (Kipling), 5
Johnson, Lyndon, 210
Jungle Book, The (Kipling), 1–4, 8, 83, 95, 111–17, 122–23, 126, 128, 144, 168, 180
Mowgli in, 2, 83, 112–15, 117, 122–23, 148, 159, 188
Just So Stories (Kipling), 1, 2, 83, 134, 159
“How the Alphabet Was Made,” 134–36, 181–82
illustrations for, 86–88, 88
Kafka, Franz, 177, 178
Karnow, Stanley, 208
Keats, John, 38, 39, 48
Kennedy, John F., 206, 208–10
Khanh, Nguyen, 211
Kim (Kipling), 1, 2, 5, 12, 78, 84, 104, 126, 157, 159–69
Lockwood Kipling’s bas-relief illustration for, 167
Vietnam War and, 204–8, 220
King, Clarence, 127, 130
Kipling, Alice (mother), 9, 17, 32, 42, 62, 66, 85, 96, 97, 103, 158
Kipling, Alice “Trix” (sister), 17, 42, 43, 55, 85, 103, 178, 198, 200
Kipling, Caroline “Carrie” Balestier (wife), 56–57, 57, 59, 60, 62, 75, 82, 88, 90, 94, 118, 125, 126, 131, 132, 147, 151, 153, 154, 157, 171, 176
honeymoon of, 8, 62, 63, 65–66, 71–72, 75, 81, 159
marriage of, 48, 49, 60–63
pregnancies of, 72, 146, 168
Kipling, Elsie (daughter), 192
birth of, 146, 147
Kipling, John (son), 171, 185, 192, 197
birth of, 158
military service and death of, 197–98, 200
Kipling, John Lockwood (father), 6, 9, 17, 18, 18, 31, 32, 41, 62, 66, 85, 96, 97–98, 108, 109, 118, 126, 158, 159, 161, 192
Beast and Man in India, 107, 115
On the Road, 167
Kipling, Josephine (daughter), 84–86, 96, 125, 126, 133, 134, 134
birth of, 82, 83
death of, 176, 181–83, 188, 190, 191, 196
Kipling, Rudyard:
at Bateman’s, 191–92, 194–96, 207
birth of, 1, 5
at Bliss Cottage, 82, 88, 119, 159
in Brattleboro, see Brattleboro, Vt.
childhood of, 9, 19, 57, 67–68, 70, 158
death of, 4, 201
drugs and, 8, 100–101, 104, 106
fame of, 187
first name of, 17
in foster care, 9, 17–18, 68, 77, 85, 95–96, 100
“Fourth Dimension” and, 98, 101, 104, 105, 109
as Freemason, 94–95
funeral for, 201
honeymoon of, 8, 62, 63, 65–66, 71–72, 75, 81, 159, 212
illness and delirium of, 176–79, 181, 187
imperialism as viewed by, 4, 131, 174, 179–80, 219
Imperial War Graves Commission position of, 197, 199, 200
loss of fortune in bank failure, 74–75, 81, 159
marriage of, 48, 49, 60–63
Naulakha home of, 88–90, 90, 92, 94, 96, 97, 109, 125, 133, 134, 153, 155, 191
in Naulakha study, 113
as newspaper reporter, 15–19, 30, 101
Nobel Prize awarded to, 3, 190–91
Oxford degree awarded to, 3, 185–86, 186, 190–91
paranormal as interest of, 8, 40–44
photographs of, 18, 113, 186
political opinions of, 187–90
post office of, 133, 134–35
predictive dream of, 198–201
romantic life of, 27–28, 34, 45, 55–57
in school, 18
travel writing of, 21–23
U.S. and, 6–8, 18, 35–36, 98, 109, 117–18, 156, 171–72, 180, 182–83, 188, 194, 212
U.S. travels of, 19–28, 31–36, 45, 55, 131
“you can’t hurry/hustle the East” quote of, 203, 204, 208, 209, 211–17, 219
Knoepflmacher, Ulrich, 181–82
Korea, 206
Kotzebue, August von, 92
Kyoto, 69–70
Langley, Samuel, 127, 128, 130
Lansdale, Edward G., 207–8, 220
Lawrence, D. H., 5
le Carré, John, 163
Life, 211
Light That Failed, The (Kipling), 55–56
Lincoln, Abraham, 43, 50, 126, 133, 146
“Lispeth” (Kipling), 5
Little Women (Alcott), 27
Lodge, George Cabot, 209
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 127, 145, 173–75, 204
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 204, 208–10
Lodge, Nellie, 127
London, 45, 54–55
London, Jack, 7, 122
London Times, 180
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 8, 36–40, 43–44, 48, 93, 192
tomb of, 33–34, 36, 38, 39, 45, 54
“Long Trail, The” (Kipling), 59, 62, 136, 137
Lost on the Grand Banks (Homer), 149–50
Lovell, John, 51
Macdonald, Fred, 58
Macdonald, Henry “Harry,” 32, 57–58
MacKaye, Steele, 82
Maclear, Michael, 219
Maine, 172, 173
Man Who Would Be King, The, 216–18
“Man Who Would Be King, The” (Kipling), 5, 95
Marshall, Henry Rutgers, 89–90
McClellan, George, 94
McKinley, William, 126, 133, 137, 172–74
Melville, Herman, 149
Metternich, Klemens von, 92–93
Michtom, Morris, 138–39
Milner, Alfred, 187
Mine Own People (Kipling), 54
Minuteman (French), 34–36, 35
Mitchell, Joni, 3
Moby-Dick (Melville), 149
Mommsen, Theodor, 192
Morris, William, 9, 32, 157, 158
“Mother Lodge, The” (Kipling), 95
“Mother Maturin” (Kipling), 103
Mount Monadnock, 1, 66, 121–22
Mussolini, Benito, 5
Myers, Frederic, 40–41
“My Lost Youth” (Longfellow), 37, 38, 40
“My Son’s Wife” (Kipling), 195
National Zoo, 8, 127–28, 130–32
Native Americans, 21, 31, 37, 126, 130, 169
naturalism, 7
Nature (Emerson), 165
Naulahka, The (Kipling and Balestier), 56, 63, 212–15
Naulakha, 88–90, 90, 92, 94, 96, 97, 109, 125, 133, 134, 153, 155, 191
Kipling in study at, 113
New England, 1–2, 63
Newman, Paul, 215
New York Times, 32, 137
New York Tribune, 175
Ngo Dinh Diem, 208–10, 220
Nixon, Richard, 209
Noah’s Ark, 88, 94–96, 107, 127
in Kipling’s insignia, 87–88, 95
Kipling’s tales of, 82–84
toy, 84–86
Nobel Prize, 3, 190–91
North End House, 157–59
Norton, Charles Eliot, 126, 145, 146, 149, 181, 188
Norton, Sally, 181
&n
bsp; Noyes, John Humphrey, 92, 120
“Old Times on the Mississippi” (Twain), 29
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 127
Olney, Richard, 144–45
Ondaatje, Michael, 12
Oneida Community, 92, 120
Oneida wolf traps, 120–21
On the Road (J. Lockwood Kipling), 167
opium, 98–109, 164
Oppenheim, Janet, 44
Orwell, George, 9, 11
Overseas Club, 67, 68, 74
Oxford University, 3, 185–86, 186, 190–91
Pain, Pleasure, and Aesthetics (Marshall), 89
paranormal and spiritualism, 8, 40–44, 198
Patton, George, 208
Paul, Saint, 180
Perry, Matthew, 66
Phantasms of the Living (Myers), 40–41
Philippines, 172–75, 189, 204, 207, 211
Phillips, Eugenia Levy, 133
Phillips, Philip, 133
Phillips, William Hallett “Bill,” 126, 128–30, 133–37, 188
Plain Tales from the Hills (Kipling), 21, 101–2
Poynter, Agnes, 62
Poynter, Edward John, 9, 62
Pressnitz, Vincenz, 93
Puck of Pook’s Hill (Kipling), 188–89, 192
Puerto Rico, 172
Putney, Vt., 92, 120
“Quiquern” (Kipling), 128
“Recessional” (Kipling), 179–80, 187
Remington, Frederic, 150
Revere, Paul, 48
Rewards and Fairies (Kipling), 187–89, 192–93
Rhodes, Cecil, 187–89
Rice, Cecil Spring, 71
Richardson, H. H., 89
Rimbaud, Arthur, 98
“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” (Kipling), 20
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 17, 68
Rodin, Auguste, 3, 185
Roosevelt, Kermit “Kim” Jr., 204, 206–7
Roosevelt, Theodore “Teddy,” 2, 3, 7, 8, 126, 128–31, 145, 146, 150, 173–75, 189, 204, 206
hunting of, 128–29, 137–38, 139
in Kipling’s dream, 177–81
Rough Riders of, 173
teddy bears and, 138–39
wild animals as viewed by, 122
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 9
Rottingdean, 157–58
Roy, Arundhati, 6
Royal Academy, 9
Rumor of War, A (Caputo), 205, 211–12, 217, 218
Rushdie, Salman, 6
Rusk, Dean, 210
Said, Edward, 5, 84
St. Nicholas, 82–83
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 185
Salisbury, Lord, 144
salmon cannery, 24, 25
Salt Lake City, Utah, 24
Samoa, 59, 66, 178
Sand, Karl Ludwig, 92
San Francisco, Calif., 19–20, 22, 24
Chinatown in, 22–23, 117
Schama, Simon, 4