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Scribner’s Magazine, 137

  Second Jungle Book, The (Kipling), 128

  “Self-Reliance” (Emerson), 6, 121, 122

  Sendak, Maurice, Where the Wild Things Are, 8, 123

  Shakespeare, William, 3, 4, 11, 155

  Sherman, William Tecumseh, 94

  Sherrod, Robert, 211

  Simla, 31, 41, 100, 167

  Simpson, Charles O., 93

  “Skerry of Shrieks, The” (Longfellow), 44

  “Skipper Ireson’s Ride” (Whittier), 152

  slaughterhouses, 25–26, 117

  slavery, 168–69

  Sleeman, W. H., 115–17, 168

  Smith, Erasmus Peshine, 66–67

  Smithsonian Institution, 127, 128, 130

  “Snow Man, The” (Stevens), 106

  Society for Psychical Research, 40, 41, 199, 200

  Something of Myself (Kipling), 36–37, 41, 54, 85, 86, 101, 128, 130, 146, 157, 188, 190–91, 198, 200

  “Song of Hiawatha, The” (Longfellow), 36–37

  “Song of the Wise Children” (Kipling), 67

  South Africa, 187–90, 219

  “South Africa” (Kipling), 190

  Spanish-American War, 8, 172, 173, 189, 204, 205

  spiritualism and the paranormal, 8, 40–44, 198

  Spring Rice, Cecil, 126, 128

  Stanton, Edwin, 133

  Stein, Aurel, 192

  Stevens, Wallace, 106

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 59–60, 66, 177–78

  “Still I Rise” (Angelou), 4–5

  Stoker, Bram, 54, 62

  “Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, The” (Kipling), 152

  Syria, 204

  Tarzan of the Apes (Burroughs), 8, 112, 117

  Taylor, Caroline, 34

  Taylor, Maxwell, 209

  tea, 72–73

  teddy bears, 138–39

  Tennant, Winifred Coombe (“Mrs. Willet”), 42–44

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 201

  Teutonic, SS, 62, 63, 212

  Theosophy, 41

  “They” (Kipling), 196–97, 200

  Thirkell, Angela, 159, 181

  Thoreau, Henry David, 121

  Tid-Bits, 51

  Time, 211

  Trial, The (Kafka), 177

  Twain, Henry, 199–200

  Twain, Mark, 2, 3, 6–8, 15–17, 20–25, 28–30, 36, 41, 45, 51, 54, 63, 115, 167–69, 186–90, 211

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 20, 23–24, 166, 167, 169

  brother and, 199–200

  Oxford degree awarded to, 185–86, 186, 190

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 103

  United States, 5

  African Americans in, 25

  American Revolution, 34–35

  Civil War in, 17, 29, 50, 94, 133, 150, 172

  Gilded Age in, 1, 7

  imperialism of, 4, 8, 171–75, 179

  Kipling and, 6–8, 18, 35–36, 98, 109, 117–18, 156, 171–72, 180, 182–83, 188, 194, 212

  Kipling’s journey across, 19–28, 31–36, 45, 55, 131

  Monroe Doctrine of, 145

  Native Americans in, 21, 31, 37, 126, 130, 169

  New England, 1–2, 63

  Philippines and, 172–75, 189, 204, 207, 211

  in Spanish-American War, 8, 172, 173, 189, 204, 205

  Venezuela and, 2, 144–46, 171

  in Vietnam War, see Vietnam War

  women in, 24–27, 118–19

  University of Manchester, 4

  Venezuela, 2, 144–46, 171

  Victoria, Queen, 179

  Vietnam War, 5, 8, 203–12, 215, 219–20

  films on, 215–16

  Kim and, 204–8, 220

  The Man Who Would Be King and, 216–18

  “you can’t hurry/hustle the East” and, 203, 204, 208, 209, 211–17, 219

  Virginian, The (Wister), 94

  war, 7–9

  Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 147, 149, 151

  Washington, D.C., 31, 125–28

  Washington, George, 3, 193–94

  Washington Post, 138

  Washington Zoo, 8, 127–28, 130–32

  Wellesley College, 34

  Wesley, John, 97

  Wesselhoeft, Robert, 93

  Wesselhoeft Water Cure, 92–94

  Westminster Abbey, 4, 199–201

  Westmoreland, William, 210–11, 219–20

  Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak), 8, 123

  “White Man’s Burden, The” (Kipling), 4, 174–77, 179, 180, 204

  “White Seal, The” (Kipling), 144

  Whitman, Walt, 6, 18, 25, 36, 102

  Whittier, John Greenleaf, 152

  Wilkins, Mary, see Freeman, Mary Wilkins

  Willet, Mrs., 42–44

  Williams, Roger, 120

  Wilson, Edmund, 4

  “Wireless” (Kipling), 39

  “Wish House, The” (Kipling), 90

  Wister, Owen, 94, 150

  “Without Benefit of Clergy” (Kipling), 5

  Wolcott, Oliver, 48

  wolves, 119–22

  Indian wolf-child stories, 115–16, 168

  in The Jungle Book, 111–15, 113, 117

  “Woodnotes” (Emerson), 121

  Woolf, Virginia, 4

  World’s Fair, 149

  World War I, 187, 197–200

  World War II, 208

  Wright, Frank Lloyd, 89

  Yaami Hotel, 68–69

  Yeats, W. B., 11

  Yellowstone National Park, 24, 129–31

  Yokohama, 65, 71, 72, 74, 75, 81, 159

  Zola, Émile, 103

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. A frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review and The New York Review of Books, he has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Benfey has written four books about the American Gilded Age including A Summer of Hummingbirds, which won the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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