- known as
- explorer, historian, essayist, writer, politician, autobiographer, rancher, naturalist, statesperson, conservationist, ornithologist, diarist, scientific collector, governor, jurist
- fields
- politics of the United States
- degrees
- Bachelor of Arts, Harvard College, 1880
- awards
- Nobel Peace Prize, 1906, Medal of Honor, 2001, David Livingstone Centenary Medal, 1917, Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1910, Honorary doctor of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Honorary doctorate from the University of Cairo
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1898, American Historical Association, 1912, American Philosophical Society, from 1906, Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1880, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Camp Fire Club
- notable works
- African game trails : an account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist, Hunting trips of a ranchman, sketches of sport on the northern cattle plains;, The wilderness hunter; an account of the big game of the United States and its chase with horse, hound, and rifle;