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Superintendent Hanks offers the regional director an update on the visit of the agency director to the Elkhorn Ranch and the belief that the ranch site is the correct location.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1948-07-23
Superintendent Hanks requests a ballistics test on bullets found in a tree at Elkhorn Ranch.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-07-18
Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park Superintendent Hanks encloses an incomplete copy of park historian Ray H. Mattison’s study on the Elkhorn Ranch, seeking critical feedback from the regional office.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-12-07
Superintendent Hanks writes Henry J. Walz, telling him more research is needed in order to begin rebuilding any structures at the Elkhorn Ranch. He also notes that Ray H. Mattison is now a historian in the regional office and Chester L. Brooks is the new park historian.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1952-01-17
Report with the requested further evidence on the identification of the Elkhorn Ranch site, including four black and white photographs.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1948-07-23
Superintendent Hanks is sending a copy of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s letter of September 5, 1890. Original and copy.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1952-03-04
Superintendent Hanks thanks Harriett S. Harmon for her interest and information. Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park would appreciate any further information on William Wingate Sewall.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-10-04
Superintendent Hanks encloses a letter from John H. Reid, a former owner of the Elkhorn Ranch. He requests a purchase order to make copies of some photographs taken by Reid of the ranch.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-08-18
Superintendent Hanks regrets to inform Robert G. Ellhamer that no literature is currently available on the Verendrye National Monument, but an effort is underway to provide basic information on the monument.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1951-02-07
Superintendent Hanks encloses a copy of a book written by Ray H. Mattison, former park historian, in conjunction with a response to the request for information on Verendrye National Monument.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1951-02-14
Superintendent Hanks clarifies that the Elkhorn Ranch has not been rebuilt. He is sending a copy of historian Ray H. Mattison’s Roosevelt and the Stockmen’s Association that he believes Henry J. Walz will find interesting.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1951-03-13
After consulting with Mr. Reid, Superintendent Hanks believes that the best way to secure the purchase of the Elkhorn Ranch site is to form as “association of persons” interested in preserving the site. This organization could seek donations in order to purchase the site.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-03-09
Superintendent Hanks opposes the proposed name change of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. He believes that a change would create considerable local opposition.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-02-21
Superintendent Hanks supports turning the residual lands from the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area over to the Soil Conservation Service. Administrating these lands would create a variety of issues for the National Park Service, such as issuing land permits.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1948-02-04
Superintendent Hanks offers his comments regarding the report on the proposed boundary changes at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1947-12-31
Superintendent Hanks encloses an article regarding the Marquis de Morès’s time in North Dakota from Historian Olaf T. Hagen.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1948-02-12
Superintendent Hanks thanks L. F. McIntosh for attending the recent dedication ceremony for Theodore Roosevelt National Park. McIntosh is the Minister for Cooperation and Municipal Affairs for the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Hanks also informs McIntosh that he has sent some newspaper accounts of the ceremony.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-06-13
Superintendent Hanks writes to Hermann Hagedorn, Secretary of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, to thank him for the Association’s donation of a book to Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park. Hanks also thanks Hagedorn for the names of the Association’s Board of Trustees as Hanks intends to invite them to the dedication ceremony for the park. Hanks hopes Hagedorn can attend the dedication ceremony.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-03-31
Superintendent Hanks asks Abner B. Larson of the Mandan Production Credit Association to prepare a list of names of people to invite to the dedication ceremony for Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-03-22
Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park Superintendent Hanks writes to Lawrence C. Merriam, the National Park Service Region II Director, to request a directory of the Department of the Interior officials. Hanks needs the directory so that he may extend invitations to the dedication ceremony for Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-03-25