Gustavus Adolphus, Crown Prince, 141–42 Gustavus V, king of Sweden, 141
INDEX 217
Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of, 154
Lee, Arthur (later Viscount Lee of Fareham), 13, 24, 118, 130, 139–40, 157–58, 162, 168, 176–77
Lee, Ruth, 157, 158, 202 n. 39
Leishman, John, 119
Lloyd George, David (later 1st Earl), 153, 168, 176–77: comparison with TR; 201 n. 7
Lodge, Senator Henry Cabot, 19, 41, 47, 52, 57, 62, 64, 77, 80, 81, 83, 86–87, 116, 119–20, 122, 131, 133, 177, 186 n. 66
Long, Reverend William J., 7, 49–50
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 4, 151, 175–76, 182 n. 8
Loring, Professor J. Alden, 29, 42, 43, 58, 59, 65, 79, 80, 81, 103
Lyttelton, Alfred, 158, 202 n. 24
Mahan, Admiral Alfred Thayer, 17, 25 Roosevelt, Archibald, 4, 26, 53–54, Mahdi, The, 86, 102 171–72, 182 n. 8
Malone, Jimmy, 24 Roosevelt, Edith Kermit, xv, 3–4, 17–18, Mann, James, 3, 182 n. 5 19, 26, 32, 47, 52–55; hears report of Maud, queen of Norway, 133–34, 140 TR’s death, 55, 62, 69, 79; reunited with McBee, Silas, 69 TR at Khartoum, 102, 107, 120, 125, McKinley, William, 7, 25 130, 133, 146, 155, 158, 168, 169, McMillan, William Northrup, 40–42, 51 175, 182 n. 8
Mearns, Major Edgar, 18, 29–30, 37, 40, Roosevelt, Ethel, 4, 32, 46, 53–54, 106, 42, 43, 45, 58–59, 65, 79, 81, 103, 120, 133, 151, 158, 168, 175, 182 n. 8 186 n. 67 Roosevelt, Kermit, 3, 4–5, 6, 8, 10, 17, 18,
Merry Del Valle, Cardinal Rafael, 117–18 26, 33, 35, 38, 41, 43, 45–46, 52, 54,
Morley, John, Viscount Morley of 61, 63, 64, 66, 69, 71, 75, 76, 77, 79, Blackburn, 11, 154, 162, 176 80, 84, 85, 102, 120, 123, 133,
Moroccan Crisis, 21 151, 157, 158, 175, 182 n. 8
Muir, John, 7, 25–26 Roosevelt, Quentin, 4, 26, 53–54, 62, 172, 182 n. 8
Nathan, Ernesto, 118 Roosevelt, Theodore: and 1908 White
New York Times, 121, 138 House Conservation Conference, 8, 9, 23; and 1912 Bull Moose campaign,
O’Laughlin, John Callan “Cal”, ix, 101, ix, 172; African Game Trails, 4, 35, 103, 106, 112, 118, 121–22 37, 173, 190 n. 62; and “Back from
Olav, Prince (later Olav V, king of Norway), Elba” club, 69, 121, 192. n. 46; Berlin 134, 178–79 speech, 147–48; and British Empire,
Oliver, F.S., 158, 202 n. 24 x, 30, 39, 52, 72–73, 76–77, 85–86,
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 20, 172–73 160–62, 166, 185 n. 4; Cairo speech,
The Outlook, 12, 46, 69, 118 110–13; Cambridge Student Union remarks, 159–60; competition with
Patterson, J. H., 5 British Museum (Natural History), 653;
Payne-Aldrich tariff, 28–29, 47, 48, and conservation, ix–x, 7–9, 12; and 57–58, 120 Great White Fleet, 23–24, 31, 146–47;
Peary, Captain Robert, 62–63 Guildhall address, 160–62; hunting
Pease, Helen, 36, 37 in British East Africa, 33–52, 58–73;
Pease, Sir Albert, 1, 35–37, 38 hunting in Uganda, 82–84; hunting
Pichon, Stéphen, 154–56 white rhino in Belgian Congo, 75–81;
Pinchot, Gifford, xiv, 1, 3, 9, 68–69, and imperialism, x, xiii, 73, 79–80, 81–84, 121–22, 177–78 187 n. 741; and Japanese threat, 146–47;
Pius X, Pope, 117–18 and missionaries, 39, 57; Nairobi speech,
Platt, Thomas “Boss”, 51 55–57; and “nature fakers”, 7,
Powell-Cotton, Major P. G. H., 5 183 n. 20; Nobel Peace Prize address, 134–35; and North American
Reid, Whitelaw, 13–14, 43–44, 129, 151, Conservation Conference, 23; and 152, 154, 160, 202 n. 42 “pigskin” library, 16–17, 42, 62; and
Rider Haggard, Henry, 5, 45, 76 preparation for African safari, 3, 4–7,
Roberts, Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh, 1st 9–11, 13–16, 17–19; and preparation Earl Roberts of Kandahar, 137, 158–59 for European tour, 3, 20–21; Romanes
Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 16–17, 32, lecture, 165–66; and Shakespeare, 17, 42, 46, 85 62, 103–04, 131; Sorbonne speech,
Roosevelt, Theodore— Continued
126–28; and “tennis” cabinet, 1–3,
22; view of Germany, 148–49; view of leaving office, 12–13; and “White Man’s Country” in British East Africa, 44, 56,
70, 161, 175
Roosevelt, Theodore Jr., 4, 182 n. 8 Root, Elihu, 1, 48, 51–52, 83–84, 114–16,
128, 137,140, 168, 176
Sargent, John Singer, 160
Scribner’s Magazine, 12
Selous, Sir Frederick Courteney, 5–6, 15,
18, 31, 40, 85, 164, 176
Sidgwick, Eleanor, 159
Slatin, Sir Rudolph Pasha, 102, 105,
195 n. 3
Society for the Preservation of the Wild
Fauna of the Empire, 10, 184 n. 32 Solomon, Sir Richard, 71
Spring Rice, Sir Cecil, 4, 17, 52, 109, 141,
158, 164, 176
Stimson, Henry, 2
Stone, Melville, 15–16
Strachey, John St Loe, 12–13, 167 Straus, Oscar, 66, 107
Sullivan, John, 16
Taft, Helen, 25, 47, 69, 169
Taft, William Howard, ix, xiv, 1, 9–10, 25, 27: and 1908 Election, 19–20, 21–22; approves of Carnegie peace
initiative for TR, 114; and
Ballinger-Pinchot affair, xiv, 68–70, 79, 80–84, 168, 177; farewell to TR, 28–29; and Payne-Aldrich tariff, 28–29, 47, 48, 57–58, 120; rapprochement with TR, 168–69; requests TR be envoy to Edward VII funeral, 149; and
split with TR, 22, 24, 49, 131
Tarlton, Leslie, 19, 33, 34, 45, 57, 61, 63, 66, 70, 103
Tawney, James, 68, 69
Times, The, (London), 163
Tipple, Ezra, 118
Tirpitz, Admiral Alfred von, 146–47
Tower, Charlemagne, 136
Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 164–65
Trevelyan, Sir George Otto, 9, 44, 142, 145, 164, 189 n. 44
Tweedmouth, Edward Majoribanks, 2nd Baron, 137
Victor Emmanuel III, king of Italy, 119, 178 Victoria, queen of England, 145
Walcott, Charles D., 10–11
Washington Post, 180
White, Henry, 21, 48–49, 68, 108, 113 Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, x, xiv, 11,
20, 21, 28, 114–16, 124, 128, 135–40,
142; comparison with TR, 142–46; TR appraisal of, 145–46, 148, 151–52,
153–54, 155, 156, 172, 176, 178,
200 n. 22, 201 n. 16
Wilhelmina, queen of the Netherlands,
129–30
Wilson, Woodrow, x, xiv, 172, 174,
175, 176
Wingate, Sir Reginald, 13, 84, 86, 105,
107–08, 110, 113
Winthrop, Beekman, 3
Wister, Owen, 4
Wood, Leonard, 168
York, Archbishop of, 166
Zigfield, Flo, xiii
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Old Lion Departs
Chapter 2 The Great Adventure Begins
Chapter 3 A Lion Roars in East Africa
Chapter 4 White Rhino and Giant Eland
Chapter 5 Down the Nile: Khartoum to Cairo
Chapter 6 European Whirl
Chapter 7 Peace Emissary
Chapter 8 Last Rites: England
Chapter 9 The Old Lion Is Dead: Epilogue and Dramatis Personae