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Ends of the Earth Club
The Ends of the Earth Club was a group of artists and explorers founded in 1903. Its members included Mark Twain,〔"Ends of the Earthers Foregather Here Again: And Astonish Mark Twain with Some Very Brief Reports," New York Times, Feb. 17, 1906, at 9.〕 General John Pershing, Admiral Robert Peary,〔"Gathered From the Ends of the Earth to Dine," New York Times, March 31, 1904, at 5.〕 Gutzon Borglum (the sculptor of Mt. Rushmore), Herbert Adams Gibbons (a Princeton professor and journalist),〔"Ends of the Earth Club Dinner, New York Times, Dec. 4, 1920, at 16.〕 and more than 100 other prominent businessmen and academics located, primarily, in the northeastern United States.
The group's honorary president was the British adventurer and writer, Rudyard Kipling. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, the group held an annual dinner at the Savoy Hotel in New York, where its members would meet and exchange stories about foreign travel and politics.〔Paul Fatout, ed., Mark Twain Speaking, at 147.〕
The members of the group generally favored Anglo American colonization of the non-European world. Mark Twain recalled an evening at the club in a dictation recorded on March 7, 1906. During the evening, the chairman of the dinner, General James L. Wilson, proudly told the group that they were "all members of the Anglo-Saxon race." Wilson further commented, "And when the Anglo-Saxon wants something, he takes it." Twain said that Wilson's comment meant that Englishmen and Americans were "thieves, highwaymen, and pirates – and proud of it."〔
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