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A BOOK-LOVER'S
HOLIDAYS IN THE OPEN
BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1916
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published March, 1916
[Illustration]
To
ARCHIE AND QUENTIN
FOREWORD
The man should have youth and strength who seeks adventure in the wide, waste spaces of the earth, in the marshes, and among the vast mountain masses, in the northern forests, amid the steaming jungles of the tropics, or on the deserts of sand or of snow. He must long greatly for the lonely winds that blow across the wilderness, and for sunrise and sunset over the rim of the empty world. His heart must thrill for the saddle and not for the hearthstone. He must be helmsman and chief, the cragsman, the rifleman, the boat steerer. He must be the wielder of axe and of paddle, the rider of fiery horses, the master of the craft that leaps through white water. His eye must be true and quick, his hand steady and strong. His heart must never fail nor his head grow bewildered, whether he face brute and human foes, or the frowning strength of hostile nature, or the awful fear that grips those who are lost in trackless lands. Wearing toil and hardship shall be his; thirst and famine he shall face, and burning fever. Death shall come to greet him with poison-fang or poison-arrow, in shape of charging beast or of scaly things that lurk in lake and river; it shall lie in wait for him among untrodden forests, in the swirl of wild waters, and in the blast of snow blizzard or thunder-shattered hurricane.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt
- 2: He can journey through the northern forests
- 3: Antlers of moose shot September 19
- 4: And Mansfield was bound that we should have an early start
- 5: To the chase of cougars and bobcats
- 6: Chipmunks and white footed mice lived in the cabin
- 7: The antlers were still in the velvet
- 8: Cougars are strange and interesting creatures
- 9: Yet men rarely eat cougar flesh
- 10: They finally roused the cougar
- 11: Soon they had the cougar treed
- 12: Archie insisted that I should shoot
- 13: Dotted with stunted sage brush and greasewood
- 14: A Navajo policeman accompanied us as guide
- 15: Later when a Navajo man came up
- 16: Tuba was once a Mormon settlement
- 17: To our slickers and horse blankets
- 18: Their ornamented saddles were of Navajo make
- 19: While Navajo Mountain loomed up under it
- 20: Many Navajos were continually visiting the store
- 21: The missionaries have made comparatively few converts
- 22: Wetherill establish her half way house
- 23: Hozhone nas shad Na da cleas
- 24: The pinyon jays were everywhere
- 25: But there were Hopi Indians whom we met at the dance
- 26: The Christian Navajo interpreter at their mission
- 27: It was really beautiful pottery
- 28: Take the case of these Hopi mesa towns
- 29: The Hopi architecture can be kept
- 30: One had a cast rattlesnake skin which he was chewing
- 31: The Hopi religious myths will become memories
- 32: All stripped to their breech clouts
- 33: Venomous and non venomous alike
- 34: Were stowed by the bundle of cottonwood branches
- 35: And from Ganado we motored to Gallup
- 36: He had served in the bloody Paraguayan War
- 37: Much of the former ranch country is now wheatland
- 38: Leads a life of easy self indulgence and celibate profligacy
- 39: Argentina much resembles our own country
- 40: And new fronds taking the place of the old ones
- 41: They are otherwise entirely outside of governmental control
- 42: CHAPTER VA CHILEAN RONDEO On November 21
- 43: The mantas were not only picturesque
- 44: Round the corral rushed the steer
- 45: The horsemen began to tease the animal
- 46: And several kind Chilean friends
- 47: Including Colonel Reybaud of the Argentine army
- 48: You were romping with little Prince Sigurd
- 49: In another blond Germans or Swiss
- 50: These gauchos were a most picturesque set
- 51: Sometimes we saw gauchos drinking at these bars rough
- 52: The landscape was parched and barren
- 53: But the hammock is really the bed
- 54: When Portugal still ruled Brazil
- 55: On these ranches the camaradas
- 56: A few of them hunted the jaguar and also the cashada
- 57: This was partly because he spoke Swahili
- 58: Kongoni and the second tent boy were summoned to attend
- 59: Kongoni and Gouvimali pounced on the faithless guide
- 60: Perhaps about something Kermit or I had done during the day
- 61: And the ghost wolf of the Pawnees
- 62: And that it was not a Kootenai story
- 63: You and I is the onliest things in this house
- 64: When he reached the causeway the light was dim
- 65: In what paleontologists call the Pleistocene age
- 66: Very rarely the hunters killed a leopard
- 67: And hartebeests gazed toward us with long
- 68: Oryx and waterbuck came down to drink and also cantered off
- 69: Bands of hartebeests and of showy zebras
- 70: The Pleistocene gradually became part of the Age of Man
- 71: And Pleistocene a short period compared to Pliocene
- 72: For it seems fairly certain that it is in Eurasia
- 73: I say perhaps indistinguishable
- 74: The fauna also often included the cave lion
- 75: And goat antelopes lived in Eurasia and North America
- 76: The time when these huge grass eaters and twig eaters
- 77: And in the Sotik gnarled gray olives
- 78: The giant among these Pleistocene giants of California
- 79: Instead of being round and blunt like walrus tusks
- 80: The Manchurian form of the tiger is an enormous beast
- 81: The governor of Gibraltar or of Aden
- 82: Although in places the last survivors of the mastodon
- 83: The edentates not only included various ground sloths
- 84: Through the stony Patagonian plains to the Rio Negro
- 85: Doctor Moreno gave me a fragment of the skin
- 86: Or of trying to tame the horse or elephant
- 87: Any more than I like prunes or bananas
- 88: Tolstoy is an interesting and stimulating writer
- 89: Or at the lightest of literature
- 90: From Sheldon I turned to Stewart Edward White
- 91: Or Coulton's abridgment of Salimbene's memoirs
- 92: And after a while the thrasher chimed in
- 93: Being taken care of by caponized bantams
- 94: Was the property of the Audubon Society
- 95: And plume hunters and eggers are sinking to the same level
- 96: And where there are many coons
- 97: The pelicans often flew only a few yards
- 98: But on one occasion the greenhead managed to turn
- 99: The beautiful royal terns were the chief sufferers
- 100: But some skimmers remained and were nesting
- 101: Any more than the gulls and terns do
- 102: The beautiful royal terns were common enough
- 103: The immense majority were royal terns
- 104: On the commission's boat Louisiana
- 105: And is near the Ward McIlhenny reserve
- 106: The flora and fauna are boreal
- 107: Leased from the government by the club
- 108: And for some days moose meat was our staple food
- 109: Beaver swam to and fro close beside me
- 110: And the forest furnishes them food in limitless quantities
- 111: They followed the caribou unceasingly
- 112: Much more helpless than caribou
- 113: Odilon was a strong young fellow
- 114: My license permitted me to kill one bull moose
- 115: And feasted on caribou venison
- 116: Which he wrecked with his antlers
- 117: Bull moose during the rut are fierce animals
- 118: Attacked and slew full grown moose
- 119: An ordinary track hound and a Russian wolfhound
- 120: Arthur again called Tirez
- 121: A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt
- 122: East Timbalier Island Reservation
- 123: Embracing Kachess Lakes reservoir site
- 124: Embracing the islands of the Culebra group
- 125: Embraces Anaho Island in Pyramid Lake
- 126: Page 58 She kige hozhone changed to She kigee hozhone