Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

In a letter to Sydney Brooks, President Roosevelt touts his record as president, highlighting achievements in the realms of foreign and domestic policy. Roosevelt lists the voyage of the Great White Fleet, the start of the Panama Canal, and the Treaty of Portsmouth in the diplomatic arena while noting the settlement of the anthracite coal strike and his conservation measures in domestic matters.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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1908-12-28

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) lists its financial supporters across a range of categories. It lists the contributors to the TRA from its six most expensive, or premium, membership categories. It also lists those who contributed to special needs funds of the TRA, like the Teddy Bears for Kids program, police awards, and the John A. Gable TRA Journal fund. The names of contributors in each category are alphabetized, and text boxes containing the mission statement of the TRA and the social media platforms used by the TRA appear on the last page of the list.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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2019

In four letters to his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles, Theodore Roosevelt discusses the Washington, D.C. dinner party scene, frets over the poor condition of his brother Elliott Roosevelt, and comments on British and American politics. Roosevelt expresses his displeasure with what he perceives as the poor performance of President Grover Cleveland in his second term, and he comments on his health as well as that of his son Theodore Roosevelt.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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1890-1894

Michael F. Moran chronicles the Strenuous Life Adventure trip to South Dakota, Wyoming, and North Dakota undertaken by members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) in September 2018. Moran notes the many sites connected to Theodore Roosevelt visited by the group, including Jewel Cave and Devils Tower National Monument, and Wind Cave and Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Moran provides details about the group’s visits to each of these sites along with its stop at Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Moran notes Roosevelt’s friendship with Seth Bullock and highlights Fritz R. Gordner’s climb of Devils Tower.

The text is supplemented with thirteen color photographs and is followed by a nine page photo gallery of fifty-four color photographs.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Fritz R. Gordner recalls his August 28, 1960, climb of Devils Tower with his friend Fred Weiss. Gordner details the equipment and techniques used to scale the rock formation, and he describes the ascent and descent of the famous monolith. Gordner’s essay is followed by a piece by Michael F. Moran that lists some of Gordner’s subsequent climbs and describes his involvement with the Theodore Roosevelt Association. Two photographs of Gordner and Weiss atop Devils Tower accompany the essay.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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2019

William N. Tilchin presents an excerpt from a letter he wrote to members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) upon the occasion of the end of his term as President of the TRA. Tilchin focuses on the work and legacy of John A. Gable, the long-time Executive Director of the TRA, and says that he remains focused on carrying out Gable’s work. On a separate matter, Tilchin notes that he erred in his characterization of a series of letters from Theodore Roosevelt to the Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park published in the Fall 2018 issue.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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2019

Listing, in alphabetical order, of the ten members of the Dr. John A. Gable Theodore Roosevelt Association Legacy Society. The notice includes contact information for two members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) leadership and names the sole member of the TRA Sustaining Benefactors Society.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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2019

In the table of contents the title of the essay or column is provided along with the author’s name and the page numbers assigned to each piece. This issue contains five entries consisting of another group of letters written by Theodore Roosevelt to his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles, two articles related to the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s (TRA) Strenuous Life Adventure, a regular feature, and a list of financial supporters of the TRA.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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2019

The Theodore Roosevelt Association’s (TRA) Strenuous Life Adventure trip to South Dakota, Wyoming, and North Dakota merits the front cover, a detailed report, and a photo gallery in this issue. Also noteworthy is the publication of the second set of letters from Theodore Roosevelt to his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles, dating from the early 1890s. Another installment of the “Presidential Snapshot” feature and a list of financial contributors to the TRA completes the issue.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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2019

Listing of the leadership of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) including the members of the Executive Committee, the Board of Trustees of the classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022 and the members of the Advisory Board for the classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022. The categories of Trustees for Life and Honorary Trustee are also included. 

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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2019

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces that David Architzel has been elected as the next President of the TRA, succeeding William N. Tilchin. The TRA also announces that its 2020 annual meeting will be held in Washington, D.C., and it reminds its members that a limited number of copies of Spotlighting TR: Selections from the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, 2007-2014 remain available for purchase. A text box lists the President and Executive Director of the TRA, along with those responsible for assembling its journal, guidelines for submitting manuscripts, and information regarding the governance of the TRA.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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2019

Report on the 2018 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in New York City. The report lists the various speakers at the symposium and dinner, and recognizes the winners of various TRA sponsored awards, including a book award, public speaking contest, and a special award to comedian Conan O’Brien. Thirteen photographs and two illustrations accompany the text which is followed by a thirteen page photo album of seventy-eight color photographs of the various speakers, guests, and dignitaries at the meeting and dinner.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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2019

Comprehensive index to the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal for 2017 and 2018. The index contains a listing of persons as subjects and authors, including authors of articles and book reviews, as well as a listing of the authors of the books under review. The index also includes a listing of topics covered in articles and announcements. A guide to the pictures found in the issues makes up parts of the last two pages of the index. Each alphabetical entry is followed by its corresponding volume, issue, and page number(s). A text box at the end of the index lists the other volumes in which indexes have been published, and it includes recognition of those who have compiled this and the previous five indexes.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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2019

An undated photograph of Theodore Roosevelt’s sister, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, appears on the front cover of this issue while the back cover features a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt in the Dakota Badlands standing next to his horse Manitou.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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1885-1889

President Roosevelt vents his frustration with the United States Senate in a letter to Senator Spooner of Wisconsin. Roosevelt concedes that the Senate has a right to amend treaties, but he believes that the amendments offered by the Senate in regard to a series of arbitration treaties are so drastic that they render the treaties worthless, and he admits that he may choose to withdraw them from consideration. On six occasions in the letter, Roosevelt pointedly claims that the Senate amendments will make the treaties “shams.”

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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1905-01-06

William N. Tilchin discusses the significance of Edmund Morris’s three volume biography of Theodore Roosevelt on the heels of Morris’s death in May 2019. Tilchin cites a letter to him from John A. Gable, a former Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) in which Gable claims that Morris’s The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt completely upended Roosevelt’s historical standing. Tilchin also quotes from Roosevelt’s address to the American Historical Association in 1912, and he asserts that Morris’s work meets Roosevelt’s challenge that good history should be well written and considered as literature. Tilchin’s essay serves as an introduction to a chapter from Morris’s second volume, Theodore Rex.

The covers of all three volumes of the Roosevelt trilogy join a photograph of Morris with Tweed Roosevelt, and an excerpt from Gable’s letter to Tilchin in illustrating the essay.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

In a chapter titled “A Most Just and Proper Revolution,” taken from the second volume of his biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris details the machinations in Washington, D.C. and Panama that resulted in the revolution against Colombian rule on the Isthmus and the establishment of the independent nation of Panama. Morris describes the careful actions and words of administration figures like Roosevelt and Secretary of State John Hay, and he charts the movement of ships of the United States Navy sent in support of the insurrection. Morris adds to his Panama narrative interludes about the November 1903 elections in the United States, Roosevelt’s visit to Sagamore Hill, and his compilation of a reading list.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2001

In his review of Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life, Joseph R. Ornig highlights the remarkable number of books written by and about Theodore Roosevelt, and he finds that the latest entry, a literary biography penned by Thomas Bailey and Katherine Joslin, fills a niche and reminds readers of Roosevelt’s impressive intellectual range. Ornig reviews the few other works that have addressed this topic, including his own, and he provides an overview of the careers of Bailey and Joslin. Ornig concludes his essay by reviewing the wide range of works produced by Roosevelt in the course of his writing career.

Four illustrations supplement the text, including a photograph of Roosevelt and the front cover of Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Susan Sarna recounts the formation of a young Theodore Roosevelt as a naturalist, highlighting his enjoyment of books by Mayne Reid, his first gun, and the revelation he experienced when he was fitted for eyeglasses. Sarna notes Roosevelt’s taxidermy work and his overseas trip of 1872-1873 which gave him field experience in preparing bird skins. Photographs of Roosevelt’s first gun, examples of Reid’s books, two birds mounted by Roosevelt, and an excerpt from a bird guide accompany the text.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

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2019

In an e-mail interview with Gregory A. Wynn of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), Darrin P. Lunde, author of The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, a Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History, admits that he came to study and write about Theodore Roosevelt while contemplating his own career as a museum naturalist. Lunde realized that he and Roosevelt had a similar preoccupation with natural history stretching back to their youths. Lunde explains and defends Roosevelt’s hunting record, praises his powers of observation, and highlight’s Roosevelt’s contributions to conservation.

The front cover of The Naturalist and a photograph of Lunde with Tweed Roosevelt supplement the text of the interview. A text box with the mission statement of the TRA appears on the last page of the interview.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal