Autobiography of [Theodore] Roosevelt's Adversary 1912 James Fullerton ~ Western frontiersman/sportsman ~ Yellowstone controversy

Title: Autobiography of Roosevelt's Adversary

Author: James Fullerton

Description: Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Rear cover shows some minor blemishing. Soiling on a few pages, else unmarked and generally clean. Some edgewear to pages. Illustrated with eight photographs on plates. 162 pages. Autobiography of James Townsend Fullerton (1853-1939), an English-born western frontiersman, homesteader, rancher, guide and hunter, who came to prominence in the first decade of the century as an outspoken public critic of the corrupt management of Yellowstone Park, for which he directly laying blame on President Theodore Roosevelt and the park superintendent, Maj. John Pitcher.

This autobiographical account covers Fullerton's youth in England, his years in Canada as a backwoods sportsman and trapper, and his experiences of frontier life in Minnesota, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana prior to the turn of the century. He briefly covers his growing conflict with Roosevelt, instigated by his awareness of the over-hunting of elk at Yellowstone, which progressed into expressing outrage over witnessing a protected racket of gambling and liquor sales in the park.The appendix includes his letter to Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior, Ethan A. Hitchcock, outlining his complaints regarding Yellowstone's problematic management.

Fullerton, at point of writing his book, appears to have been living in Portland. By 1920 he had moved to Port Townsend, Washington, served as its mayor from 1923 to 1924, and gained the nickname ''Loganberry Jim'' for his advocacy of loganberry culture.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good–
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: The Roxburgh Publishing Company
Place: Boston
Year: 1912

Keywords: sportsman, Montana, Canada, outdoorsman, Theodore Roosevelt, Yellowstone, Port Townsend, pioneer,