John Burroughs. Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt. New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1907.

[zoom] That Teddy Roosevelt would be forever associated with a cute little bear seems ironic, given his personal record as a mass-killer of animals. In reference to his massacring 512 big-game animals, including six rare white rhinos in Sudan after the end of his presidency, the novelist Paul Theroux has called him an “evil twin to the Biblical Noah.” At the same time, Roosevelt was the first president to implement conservation in the USA, saving more than 230 million acres of wildlife habitat. In his book, the conservationist John Burroughs, who made the trip to Yellowstone Park with Roosevelt in 1903, writes: “Some of our newspapers reported that the President intended to hunt in the Park. A woman in Vermont wrote me to protest against the hunting, and hoped I would teach the President to love the animals as much as I did - as if he did not love them much more, because they had been part of his life.”