A Love Affair with Birds: The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts

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233 • Notes 1. A Fledgling Start 1. John Roberts, journal, 14 June 1867, box 2, volume 2, Thomas S. Roberts and Family Papers, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul. Roberts refers to the steamer as the Bay City, but the Key City was the steamer running between Dubuque and St. Paul. His journal does not mention his daughter, Mary Emma, who was seven years old in 1867. 2. Ibid., 12 July 1867. 3. Ibid., 14 June 1867. 4. Lucile M. Kane, The Falls of St. Anthony: The Waterfall That Built Minneapolis (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987), 43. 5. St. Paul Pioneer, 15 June 1867. 6. Rev. W. T. Boutwell (1832), as quoted in Schoolcraft’s Expedition to Lake Itasca: The Discovery of the Source of the Mississippi, ed. Philip P. Mason (East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1993), 338–39. 7. John Roberts, journal, 15 June 1867. 8. Ibid., 18 June 1867, and 28 June 1867. 9. Ibid., 20 June 1867. 10. Ibid., 2 July 1867. 11. Larry Millett, Lost Twin Cities (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1992), 74. 12. John Roberts, journal, 25 June 1867. 13. Minneapolis Morning Tribune, 15 June 1867. 14. John Roberts, journal, 24 July 1867. 15. Ibid., 7 August 1867. 16. Ibid., 30 June 1867; emphasis in original. 17. Ibid., 25 August 1867, 10 November 1867, and 27 October 1867. 18. Ibid., 15 August 1867. 19. Ibid., 16 August 1867. 20. Ibid., 17 August 1867. 21. Ibid., 24 September 1867. 22. Ibid., 3 August 1867. 234 Notes to Chapter 2 23. Millett, Lost Twin Cities, 84. 24. John Roberts, journal, 30 November 1867. 2. Acquiring an Eagle Eye 1. Minneapolis Morning Tribune, 7 March 1874. 2. This Powderhorn Lake is not present-day Powderhorn Lake. This pond lay between Twenty-Second and Twenty-Fourth Streets and Harriet and Lyndale Avenues and has long since disappeared. Charles Judson Herrick, “Clarence Luther Herrick: Pioneer Naturalist, Teacher, and Psychobiologist,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 45, no. 1 (1955): 26. 3. Thomas S. Roberts, Shotgun and Stethoscope: The Journals of Thomas Sadler Roberts, edited and transcribed by Penelope Krosch (Minneapolis: James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, 1991), 6 (1 April 1874 entry). 4. T. S. Roberts, “Rambles of a Bird Lover in Minnesota,” The Flicker, 1 October 1944. 5. Roberts, Shotgun and Stethoscope, 6 (2 April 1874 entry). 6. Ibid., 6–7 (4 April 1874 entry). 7. Harry Woodworth, “Among Those We Know,” Golfer and Sportsman, December 1938, 77. 8.Roberts,ShotgunandStethoscope,7(14April1874entry);emphasisinoriginal. 9. Ibid., 6 (24 March 1874 entry). 10. Roberts, “Rambles of a Bird Lover.” 11. Ibid. 12. Photo BR1031, Hennepin County Libraries, “Tepees on the West Bank of the Mississippi River about 1850.” 13. Roberts, Shotgun and Stethoscope, 7 (15 April 1874 entry). 14. Thomas S. Roberts, The Birds of Minnesota (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1932), 2: 222. 15. Minneapolis Morning Tribune, 19 April 1874. 16.Roberts,ShotgunandStethoscope,9(30May1874entry).Bartram’sSandpiper is called today the Upland Sandpiper. The Short-tailed Tern is today’s Black Tern. 17. Roberts, The Birds of Minnesota, 1: 582. 18. Ibid. 19. Ibid., 1: 579. 20. O. Pettingill, Ornithology in Laboratory and Field (Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Co., 1970), 422. 21. Roberts, The Birds of Minnesota, 1: 584. 235 Notes to Chapter 3 22. Roberts, “Rambles of a Bird Lover.” 23. Roberts, Shotgun and Stethoscope, 9 (3 June 1874 entry). 24.RuthBoveyStevens,JustforUs(Wayzata,Minn.:publishedbyauthor,1992). 25. Roberts, Shotgun and Stethoscope, 10 (13 June 1874 entry). 26. Ibid., 11 (30 June 1874 entry). 27. Roberts, The Birds of Minnesota, 1: 340. 28. Ibid., 1: 467. 29. Ibid. 30. Ibid., 1: 487. The Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway later built a roundhouse to repair trains on Sandy Lake’s shore, a facility that exists today as “Shoreham Yard.” Sandy Lake disappeared in the 1920s. Shoreham Yard is contaminated with toxic chemicals in the shallow underlying aquifer. 31. Roberts, Shotgun and Stethoscope, 12 (27 July 1874 entry). 32. Ibid., 12 (31 July 1874 entry). 33. Ibid., 12 (6 August 1874 entry). 34. Roberts, The Birds of Minnesota, 1: 487. 35. Thomas S. Roberts to Franklin Benner, 27 September 1874, box 1, folder “Correspondence 1857–1876,” Roberts and Family Papers. All subsequent quotations about this trip are from the 27 September 1874 letter. 36.RobertstoBenner,18October1874,box1,folder“Correspondence1857–1876,” Roberts and Family Papers. 37.RobertstoBenner,11December1874,box1...