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“Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens, An” (Sleeman), 115
Adams, Charles Francis, 129
Adams, Henry, 2, 51, 59–61, 63, 89, 105–6, 126, 127, 129, 130, 146, 209, 212
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain), 20, 23–24, 166, 167, 169
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain), 29, 186
Afghanistan, 21, 162, 203, 204, 216–19
African Americans, 25
Aguinaldo, Emilio, 172
Allahabad Pioneer, 15, 20, 21, 30, 41
Ambler, Eric, 163
America, see United States
American Indians, 21, 31, 37, 126, 130, 169
American Revolution, 34–35
Angelou, Maya, 4–5
Apocalypse Now, 215–16
Arendt, Hannah, 163–64
Auden, W. H., 10–11
Austen, Jane, 95
“Baa Baa, Black Sheep” (Kipling), 85–86, 95, 96
Baden-Powell, Robert, Lord, 206, 208
Baksh, Kadir, 100–101
Baldwin, Alfred, 98–99
Baldwin, Louisa, 84–85
Balestier, Anna, 82
Balestier, Beatty, 61, 66, 67, 81, 82, 94, 153–54, 171, 177, 191
Balestier, Charles Wolcott, 48–54, 52, 56, 58–62, 66, 88, 94, 118, 137, 146, 212
Balestier, Joseph, 94
Balestier, Josephine, 56–57, 60, 62
Balestier, Mai, 82
Balfour, Gerald, 42–44
“Ballad of Boh Da Thone, The” (Kipling), 216, 217
“Ballad of East and West, The” (Kipling), 213
Barrack-Room Ballads (Kipling), 205, 216, 220
Bateman’s, 191–92, 194–96, 207
Baudelaire, Charles, 137
Beard, Charles, 129
bears, 122, 128–31, 137–39, 139
Beast and Man in India (J. Lockwood Kipling), 107, 115
Beato, Felix, 76
Beaver College for Women, 20, 26–27
beavers, 131, 132, 134, 136, 139, 194–95
Beguiling of Merlin, The (Burne-Jones), 158
Blavatsky, Madame, 41
Bliss Cottage, 82, 88, 119, 159
Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne), 93
Bombay, 1, 2, 17, 19, 20, 66, 67, 70, 155
Boone and Crockett Club, 128–29, 137
Booth, John Wilkes, 43
Borges, Jorge Luis, 4, 11, 166
Boston Daily Globe, 154
Boy’s Will, A (Frost), 374
Brattleboro, Vt., 2, 48, 50, 65–66, 75, 81–82, 90–92, 119–21, 132, 133, 153–55, 171
Brattleboro Retreat, 92
Bread-winners, The (Hay), 129
Brecht, Bertolt, 4
“Bridge-Builders, The” (Kipling), 98, 105–9, 164
cotton trade and, 17
Secret Intelligence Service in, 163
British Empire, 4, 6, 174, 179
in India, 1, 12, 19, 98–100, 104, 115–17, 163–64, 166–69, 203, 219
opium trade and, 98–100
British Guiana, 144
Brockhaus, Albert, 60
“Broken Oar, The” (Longfellow), 39
Bronx Zoo, 137
Brothers Grimm, 17
“Brother Square-Toes” (Kipling), 193
Brown, John, 189
Buddha, 66
“Buddha at Kamakura” (Kipling), 77, 160
Burne-Jones, Edward, 9, 32, 62, 157–59, 192
Burne-Jones, Georgiana, 62, 157–59
Burne-Jones, Margaret, 108
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, Tarzan of the Apes, 8, 112, 117
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 38
Cable, George Washington, 24–25
Cabot, Molly, 93, 117, 118, 120, 123
Cabot, Will, 58
Cameron, Elizabeth “Lizzie,” 127, 130
Cameron, Martha, 130
Cape Town, 188
Captains Courageous (Kipling), 1, 146–53, 156
Harvey Cheyne in, 146, 148, 149, 151–53, 155, 159, 193
Caputo, Philip, 205, 206, 211–12, 217–19
Carman, Bliss, 94
Carnegie, Andrew, 181
Century Magazine, 143
Chicago, Ill., 21
slaughterhouses in, 25–26, 117
Chinatown, San Francisco, 22–23, 117
Chion-in temple bell, 70–71, 73
Christianity, 77
CIA, 204, 206, 207, 209–11, 220
City of Peking, 19
Civil and Military Gazette, 101
Civil War, 17, 29, 50, 94, 133, 150, 172
Clemens, Samuel, see Twain, Mark.
Cleveland, Grover, 50–51, 143–46
colonialism, see imperialism and colonialism
Columbia River, 23–25
Concord, Mass., 34
Conland, James, 125, 146, 147, 178, 191
Connecticut River, 1, 90, 91, 118, 120, 132
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A (Twain), 15
Coppola, Francis Ford, 216
copyright agreements, 28–29, 51
cotton trade, 17
Crane, Stephen, 7, 56, 103, 151
Daisy Miller (James), 24, 47–49, 60, 61
Dante Alighieri, 36
Darwinism, 7, 41, 84, 103, 195
Dawbarn, Robert, 99
Day’s Work, The (Kipling), 98, 105
Debs, Eugene, 129
de Forest, Lockwood, 32, 88–89, 155
de Forest, Meta, 89
Dickens, Charles, 20
Dickinson, Emily, 36
Diem (Ngo Dinh Diem), 208–10, 220
Dispatches (Herr), 218
“Disturber of Traffic, The” (Kipling), 58
Divine Comedy (Dante), 36
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 82–83
Doubleday, Frank, 94
Dracula (Stoker), 54
Dulles, Allen, 207
Dunham, Theodore, 176
Ear of Dionysius, The (Balfour), 42–44
Elms, the, 159
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 6, 35, 45, 69, 92–93, 121, 122, 165–66, 179, 219
Empress of India, 65
England, see Britain
English Library, 60
English Patient, The (Ondaatje), 12
“Epitaphs of the War” (Kipling), 197–98, 220
“Error in the Fourth Dimension, An” (Kipling), 98
“Experience” (Emerson), 165
“False Dawn” (Kipling), 28
“Feet of the Young Men, The” (Kipling), 136–37
Fern, Fanny, 91
“Finest Story in the World, The” (Kipling), 38–45, 94, 192
First Presbyterian Church, Colorado Springs, 89
fishing, 143–44, 146–47, 149, 154–55, 156
Fleming, Ian, 163
“Floods, The” (Kipling), 194
Fog Warning, The (Homer), 149–50, 150
Follen, Karl, 92–93
Following the Equator (Twain), 168
forests, 129
Fourth Dimension, 98, 101, 104, 105, 109
Freeman, Mary Wilkins, 118, 119
Freemasonry, 94–95
French, Daniel Chester, Minuteman, 34–36, 35
Frost, Robert, 37
Garrard, Florence, 55
“Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, The” (Kipling), 99, 101–3
Gay, Peter, 123
Ghazipur Factory, 104–5
Gilder, Richard Watson, 143–44
Gilmour, David, 6
Glass Bead Game, The (Hesse), 163
Grant, Ulysses S., 50
Great Britain, see Britain
Greene, Graham, 163
Guam, 172
“Gunga Din” (Kipling), 5
Hancock, Herbie, 3
Harkins, Paul D., 208–10, 215, 219
Harper, Joseph Henry, 32
Harris, Joel Chandler, 24–25, 113
Harte, Bret, 21–23
Hawaii, 172
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 5, 35, 93
Hay, John, 126, 127, 129, 133–34, 145, 171–74, 180, 204
Hayes, Rutherford B., 50
“Heathen Chinee, The” (Harte), 23
Heinemann, William, 53–54, 58, 60, 62
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 37
Herring Net, The (Homer), 149–50
Hesse, Hermann, 163
Hill, Alexander, 20
Hill, Caroline, 28
Hill, Edmonia “Ted,” 20, 26–28, 34, 36, 103, 104, 182–83
Hitchcock, Ripley, 132
Ho Chi Minh, 207
Hofstadter, Richard, 146
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 93
Hong Kong, 19
Hornaday, William Temple, 127–28
Howe, Irving, 4
Howells, Elinor, 50
Howells, William Dean, 49–50, 56, 93, 155
Hunt, E. J., 71
hunting, 128–30, 137–38, 143–44
“hustle,” use of word, 215
“you can’t hurry/hustle the East,” 203, 204, 208, 209, 211–17, 219
Hustler, The, 215
“If—” (Kipling), ix, 2–5, 9, 11, 12, 74, 122, 193–94, 215–16
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou), 5
imperialism and colonialism:
anti-imperialist movement, 181
of Britain, see British Empire
Kipling’s view of, 4, 131, 174, 179–80, 219
Roosevelt’s view of, 131
“The White Man’s Burden” and, 4, 174–77, 179, 180
Imperial War Graves Commission, 197, 199, 200
“In an Opium Factory” (Kipling), 104
India, 1, 6, 9, 10, 31–32, 54, 88, 95, 126, 167–68
Bombay, 1, 2, 17, 19, 20, 66, 67, 70, 155
Britain and, 1, 12, 19, 98–100, 104, 115–17, 163–64, 166–69, 203, 219
cotton in, 17
Native Americans and, 21
paranormal in, 41
Revolt of 1857 in, 166–67
wolf-child stories in, 115–16, 168
Indian Railway Library, 19
“In the House of Suddhoo” (Kipling), 41
“In the Penal Colony” (Kafka), 177
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 93
James, Henry, 3, 8, 24, 27, 47–49, 54, 56–63, 196
Balestier and, 48, 49, 53, 54, 56, 60, 61
James, William, 2, 3, 7, 41, 62, 89, 155–56, 173
Jameson, Leander Starr, 187
bank failure in, 74–75, 81, 159
Chion-in temple bell in, 70–71, 73
shrines in, 87
tea in, 72–73
Jarrell, Randall, 4
Jews, 25
“Jews in Shushan” (Kipling), 5
Johnson, Lyndon, 210
Jungle Book, The (Kipling), 1–4, 8, 83, 95, 111–17, 122–23, 126, 128, 144, 168, 180
Mowgli in, 2, 83, 112–15, 117, 122–23, 148, 159, 188
Just So Stories (Kipling), 1, 2, 83, 134, 159
“How the Alphabet Was Made,” 134–36, 181–82
Karnow, Stanley, 208
Khanh, Nguyen, 211
Kim (Kipling), 1, 2, 5, 12, 78, 84, 104, 126, 157, 159–69
Lockwood Kipling’s bas-relief illustration for, 167
Kipling, Alice (mother), 9, 17, 32, 42, 62, 66, 85, 96, 97, 103, 158
Kipling, Alice “Trix” (sister), 17, 42, 43, 55, 85, 103, 178, 198, 200
Kipling, Caroline “Carrie” Balestier (wife), 56–57, 57, 59, 60, 62, 75, 82, 88, 90, 94, 118, 125, 126, 131, 132, 147, 151, 153, 154, 157, 171, 176
honeymoon of, 8, 62, 63, 65–66, 71–72, 75, 81, 159
Kipling, Elsie (daughter), 192
Kipling, John (son), 171, 185, 192, 197
birth of, 158
military service and death of, 197–98, 200
Kipling, John Lockwood (father), 6, 9, 17, 18, 18, 31, 32, 41, 62, 66, 85, 96, 97–98, 108, 109, 118, 126, 158, 159, 161, 192
Beast and Man in India, 107, 115
On the Road, 167
Kipling, Josephine (daughter), 84–86, 96, 125, 126, 133, 134, 134
death of, 176, 181–83, 188, 190, 191, 196
Kipling, Rudyard:
at Bateman’s, 191–92, 194–96, 207
at Bliss Cottage, 82, 88, 119, 159
in Brattleboro, see Brattleboro, Vt.
childhood of, 9, 19, 57, 67–68, 70, 158
drugs and, 8, 100–101, 104, 106
fame of, 187
first name of, 17
in foster care, 9, 17–18, 68, 77, 85, 95–96, 100
“Fourth Dimension” and, 98, 101, 104, 105, 109
as Freemason, 94–95
funeral for, 201
honeymoon of, 8, 62, 63, 65–66, 71–72, 75, 81, 159, 212
illness and delirium of, 176–79, 181, 187
imperialism as viewed by, 4, 131, 174, 179–80, 219
Imperial War Graves Commission position of, 197, 199, 200
loss of fortune in bank failure, 74–75, 81, 159
Naulakha home of, 88–90, 90, 92, 94, 96, 97, 109, 125, 133, 134, 153, 155, 191
in Naulakha study, 113
as newspaper reporter, 15–19, 30, 101
Nobel Prize awarded to, 3, 190–91
Oxford degree awarded to, 3, 185–86, 186, 190–91
paranormal as interest of, 8, 40–44
political opinions of, 187–90
predictive dream of, 198–201
romantic life of, 27–28, 34, 45, 55–57
in school, 18
travel writing of, 21–23
U.S. and, 6–8, 18, 35–36, 98, 109, 117–18, 156, 171–72, 180, 182–83, 188, 194, 212
U.S. travels of, 19–28, 31–36, 45, 55, 131
“you can’t hurry/hustle the East” quote of, 203, 204, 208, 209, 211–17, 219
Knoepflmacher, Ulrich, 181–82
Korea, 206
Kotzebue, August von, 92
Kyoto, 69–70
Langley, Samuel, 127, 128, 130
Lansdale, Edward G., 207–8, 220
Lawrence, D. H., 5
le Carré, John, 163
Life, 211
Light That Failed, The (Kipling), 55–56
Lincoln, Abraham, 43, 50, 126, 133, 146
“Lispeth” (Kipling), 5
Little Women (Alcott), 27
Lodge, George Cabot, 209
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 127, 145, 173–75, 204
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 204, 208–10
Lodge, Nellie, 127
London Times, 180
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 8, 36–40, 43–44, 48, 93, 192
tomb of, 33–34, 36, 38, 39, 45, 54
“Long Trail, The” (Kipling), 59, 62, 136, 137
Lost on the Grand Banks (Homer), 149–50
Lovell, John, 51
Macdonald, Fred, 58
Macdonald, Henry “Harry,” 32, 57–58
MacKaye, Steele, 82
Maclear, Michael, 219
Man Who Would Be King, The, 216–18
“Man Who Would Be King, The” (Kipling), 5, 95
Marshall, Henry Rutgers, 89–90
McClellan, George, 94
McKinley, William, 126, 133, 137, 172–74
Melville, Herman, 149
Metternich, Klemens von, 92–93
Michtom, Morris, 138–39
Milner, Alfred, 187
Mine Own People (Kipling), 54
Mitchell, Joni, 3
Moby-Dick (Melville), 149
Mommsen, Theodor, 192
Monroe Doctrine, 145
Morris, William, 9, 32, 157, 158
“Mother Lodge, The” (Kipling), 95
“Mother Maturin” (Kipling), 103
Mount Monadnock, 1, 66, 121–22
Mussolini, Benito, 5
Myers, Frederic, 40–41
“My Lost Youth” (Longfellow), 37, 38, 40
“My Son’s Wife” (Kipling), 195
National Zoo, 8, 127–28, 130–32
Native Americans, 21, 31, 37, 126, 130, 169
naturalism, 7
Nature (Emerson), 165
Naulahka, The (Kipling and Balestier), 56, 63, 212–15
Naulakha, 88–90, 90, 92, 94, 96, 97, 109, 125, 133, 134, 153, 155, 191
Kipling in study at, 113
Newman, Paul, 215
New York Tribune, 175
Nixon, Richard, 209
Noah’s Ark, 88, 94–96, 107, 127
in Kipling’s insignia, 87–88, 95
Kipling’s tales of, 82–84
toy, 84–86
North End House, 157–59
Norton, Charles Eliot, 126, 145, 146, 149, 181, 188
Norton, Sally, 181
“Old Times on the Mississippi” (Twain), 29
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 127
Olney, Richard, 144–45
Ondaatje, Michael, 12
Oneida wolf traps, 120–21
On the Road (J. Lockwood Kipling), 167
Oppenheim, Janet, 44
Oxford University, 3, 185–86, 186, 190–91
Pain, Pleasure, and Aesthetics (Marshall), 89
paranormal and spiritualism, 8, 40–44, 198
Patton, George, 208
Paul, Saint, 180
Perry, Matthew, 66
Phantasms of the Living (Myers), 40–41
Philippines, 172–75, 189, 204, 207, 211
Phillips, Eugenia Levy, 133
Phillips, Philip, 133
Phillips, William Hallett “Bill,” 126, 128–30, 133–37, 188
Plain Tales from the Hills (Kipling), 21, 101–2
Poynter, Agnes, 62
Pressnitz, Vincenz, 93
Puck of Pook’s Hill (Kipling), 188–89, 192
Puerto Rico, 172
“Quiquern” (Kipling), 128
“Recessional” (Kipling), 179–80, 187
Remington, Frederic, 150
Revere, Paul, 48
Rewards and Fairies (Kipling), 187–89, 192–93
Rhodes, Cecil, 187–89
Rice, Cecil Spring, 71
Richardson, H. H., 89
Rimbaud, Arthur, 98
“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” (Kipling), 20
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 17, 68
Roosevelt, Kermit “Kim” Jr., 204, 206–7
Roosevelt, Theodore “Teddy,” 2, 3, 7, 8, 126, 128–31, 145, 146, 150, 173–75, 189, 204, 206
hunting of, 128–29, 137–38, 139
in Kipling’s dream, 177–81
Rough Riders of, 173
teddy bears and, 138–39
wild animals as viewed by, 122
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 9
Rottingdean, 157–58
Roy, Arundhati, 6
Royal Academy, 9
Rumor of War, A (Caputo), 205, 211–12, 217, 218
Rushdie, Salman, 6
Rusk, Dean, 210
St. Nicholas, 82–83
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 185
Salisbury, Lord, 144
Salt Lake City, Utah, 24
Sand, Karl Ludwig, 92
San Francisco, Calif., 19–20, 22, 24
Schama, Simon, 4
Scribner’s Magazine, 137
Second Jungle Book, The (Kipling), 128
“Self-Reliance” (Emerson), 6, 121, 122
Sendak, Maurice, Where the Wild Things Are, 8, 123
Shakespeare, William, 3, 4, 11, 155
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 94
Sherrod, Robert, 211
Simpson, Charles O., 93
“Skerry of Shrieks, The” (Longfellow), 44
“Skipper Ireson’s Ride” (Whittier), 152
slavery, 168–69
Smith, Erasmus Peshine, 66–67
Smithsonian Institution, 127, 128, 130
“Snow Man, The” (Stevens), 106
Society for Psychical Research, 40, 41, 199, 200
Something of Myself (Kipling), 36–37, 41, 54, 85, 86, 101, 128, 130, 146, 157, 188, 190–91, 198, 200
“Song of Hiawatha, The” (Longfellow), 36–37
“Song of the Wise Children” (Kipling), 67
“South Africa” (Kipling), 190
Spanish-American War, 8, 172, 173, 189, 204, 205
spiritualism and the paranormal, 8, 40–44, 198
Stanton, Edwin, 133
Stein, Aurel, 192
Stevens, Wallace, 106
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 59–60, 66, 177–78
“Still I Rise” (Angelou), 4–5
“Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, The” (Kipling), 152
Syria, 204
Tarzan of the Apes (Burroughs), 8, 112, 117
Taylor, Caroline, 34
Taylor, Maxwell, 209
tea, 72–73
teddy bears, 138–39
Tennant, Winifred Coombe (“Mrs. Willet”), 42–44
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 201
Theosophy, 41
Thoreau, Henry David, 121
Tid-Bits, 51
Time, 211
Trial, The (Kafka), 177
Twain, Henry, 199–200
Twain, Mark, 2, 3, 6–8, 15–17, 20–25, 28–30, 36, 41, 45, 51, 54, 63, 115, 167–69, 186–90, 211
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 20, 23–24, 166, 167, 169
brother and, 199–200
Oxford degree awarded to, 185–86, 186, 190
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 103
United States, 5
African Americans in, 25
American Revolution, 34–35
Civil War in, 17, 29, 50, 94, 133, 150, 172
imperialism of, 4, 8, 171–75, 179
Kipling and, 6–8, 18, 35–36, 98, 109, 117–18, 156, 171–72, 180, 182–83, 188, 194, 212
Kipling’s journey across, 19–28, 31–36, 45, 55, 131
Monroe Doctrine of, 145
Native Americans in, 21, 31, 37, 126, 130, 169
Philippines and, 172–75, 189, 204, 207, 211
in Spanish-American War, 8, 172, 173, 189, 204, 205
in Vietnam War, see Vietnam War
University of Manchester, 4
Victoria, Queen, 179
Vietnam War, 5, 8, 203–12, 215, 219–20
films on, 215–16
The Man Who Would Be King and, 216–18
“you can’t hurry/hustle the East” and, 203, 204, 208, 209, 211–17, 219
Virginian, The (Wister), 94
war, 7–9
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 147, 149, 151
Washington Post, 138
Washington Zoo, 8, 127–28, 130–32
Wellesley College, 34
Wesley, John, 97
Wesselhoeft, Robert, 93
Wesselhoeft Water Cure, 92–94
Westmoreland, William, 210–11, 219–20
Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak), 8, 123
“White Man’s Burden, The” (Kipling), 4, 174–77, 179, 180, 204
“White Seal, The” (Kipling), 144
Whitman, Walt, 6, 18, 25, 36, 102
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 152
Wilkins, Mary, see Freeman, Mary Wilkins
Willet, Mrs., 42–44
Williams, Roger, 120
Wilson, Edmund, 4
“Wireless” (Kipling), 39
“Wish House, The” (Kipling), 90
“Without Benefit of Clergy” (Kipling), 5
Wolcott, Oliver, 48
wolves, 119–22
Indian wolf-child stories, 115–16, 168
in The Jungle Book, 111–15, 113, 117
“Woodnotes” (Emerson), 121
Woolf, Virginia, 4
World’s Fair, 149
World War II, 208
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 89
Yaami Hotel, 68–69
Yeats, W. B., 11
Yellowstone National Park, 24, 129–31
Yokohama, 65, 71, 72, 74, 75, 81, 159
Zola, Émile, 103