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Chester L. Brooks writes to Wallis Huidekoper regarding Brooks’ research on the Rough Riders, specifically Theodore Roosevelt’s potential inspiration for them and recruitment in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-11-20
Chester L. Brooks writes to Wallis Huidekoper regarding Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Rider recruitment, and also mentions Roosevelt land settlement policies in relation to his conservation policies.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-12-02
Chester L. Brooks writes to Howard K. Beale, a fellow historian, regarding Brooks research on Rough Rider recruitment and the Badlands. Brooks also mentions Wallis Huidekoper’s letter about Theodore Roosevelt as a Rough Rider and Roosevelt’s settlement policies in the Badlands.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-12-02
List of attendants of the Rough Rider Reunion in Las Vegas, New Mexico, perhaps copied out of the Las Vegas Daily Optic.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1956-08-24
Business card of John A. Gable, Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Unknown
This clipping includes an article written by Richard Mayne, the Chairman of the Department of Reading & Speech Culture, regarding Theodore Roosevelt’s pronunciation of his own name, and features a printed response by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1903-05-25
Manuscript detailing Theodore Roosevelt’s experiences in the Badlands and how that affected his political career and values.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949
Chester L. Brooks responds to Carleton Putnam’s request for details related to Putnam’s biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Brooks is unable to confirm the exact dates of Roosevelt’s 1883 bison hunt and whether it coincided with a Sioux hunt that September. Brooks explains what he uses as the proper forms of the names of Bill Merrifield and George Meyers, based on his research. Brooks mentions that Ethel Roosevelt Derby and her family plan to visit Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, the first of Theodore Roosevelt’s children to do so since the park was established in 1947.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-08-17
Article detailing Theodore Roosevelt’s experience in the Badlands in the 1880s and involvement with ranching and cattle.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1904
Portion of the original printing of the Proceedings of a Conference of Governors, including the plan of the conference, the calendar, a roster of participants, the table of contents, and the verbatim record of the opening session of the conference, during which President Roosevelt delivered an address.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1909
Bettie Wingert tells her mother about Colonel Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Helena, Montana, including dinner at the Kohrs’s home and the speech Roosevelt gave on “good citizenship and high thinking.”
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1911-13-04
A copy of a research paper regarding the history and historic preservation of Medora, North Dakota. The paper focuses on the architecture and construction of the town between the years 1883-1886.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1957-1961
Manuscript extensively documents the history of the North Dakota Badlands up until 1879, including details about the fur trade, Lewis and Clark, conflicts with Indians, the development of the Keogh Trail and Theodore Roosevelt’s arrival.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-07