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Superintendent Reid encloses two copies of a speech by George F. Will which was presented at a meeting of the Roosevelt History and Nature Association.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-07-29
Dana Wright is planning a trip from Fort Rice to study Sully Trail and hopes to stop in Medora, North Dakota. He has visited several sites in southern North Dakota and is anxious to examine the Little Missouri River between Sully Creek and Custer Wash as he is puzzled by the trail in this area.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-08-29
After looking over the maps suggested by Historian Chester L. Brooks, Ray W. Lingk believes that the battle was fought at Square Butte and that the Sully Expedition traveled south of Flat Top Butte and north of Sentinel Butte.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-07-06
Ray W. Lingk provides an update on his Sully Trail research and appreciates the honor of having a butte named after him.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-11-20
Ray W. Lingk provides feedback and suggestions on Historian Chester L. Brooks’s manuscript on the Badlands to 1879.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-01-11
Dana Wright will be unable to attend the meeting but is interested in Father Louis Pfaller’s presentation. He encloses copies made from a booklet with information on the 1873 Northern Pacific Railroad expedition under General David Sloane Stanley.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-12-02
Ray W. Lingk compares some of his recent research with what is available in Frontier and Indian Life and Kaleidoscopic Lives by Joseph Henry Taylor.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Background information on Medora, North Dakota, residents to accompany enclosed photographs.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1955-05-07
Ray W. Lingk describes his efforts to find a camp set up during General Sully’s expedition in the North Dakota Badlands.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1956-10-14
Ray W. Lingk is continuing to work on the maps. He believes that their Sully Trail research is nearly complete and should be put in “readable” form.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1956-01-27
Ray W. Lingk reviews possible locations of “Slim Kinkles military camp” near Bullion Butte, North Dakota. Lingk is planning a trip to the area to locate the camp.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Dana Wright has received the “brass article.” He cannot identify it but does not believe that it is related to artillery of the American Indian Wars.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1955-04-21
Ray W. Lingk would like to arrange a trip to Flat Top Butte and was able to find the August 9 camp which is located near Lingk’s home.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1955-05-08
Dana Wright thanks Historian Chester L. Brooks for the return of his notebook which had been lost. He has received some information regarding camps near Flat Top Butte.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-09-27
Ray W. Lingk reviews errors in a historical presentation he attended about General Custer’s movements in western North Dakota and his Native American scouts.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-09-21
Superintendent Luce directs Historian Chester L. Brooks to the missing biographical data for the Edward Settle Godfrey material.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1956-03-06
Superintendent Luce provides excerpts from Edward Settle Godfrey’s diary and First Lieutenant Maguire’s report from the Sioux Expedition of 1876.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-03-20
Ray W. Lingk believes that General Sully’s first look at the North Dakota Badlands occurred near his camp at the head of Paddock Creek, in the area that is now Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Ray W. Lingk has found a history of North Dakota with a map of old wagon trails, including Sully’s 1864 expedition. Lingk analyzes the map in detail.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-05-02
Ray W. Lingk reviews his thoughts on the location of Sully Trail near Flat Top Butte.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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