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President Roosevelt thanks Major Pitcher for helping set up the trip to Yellowstone and asks him questions regarding the mountain lion hunt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-04
President Roosevelt will be spending around two weeks in Yellowstone and hopes to use hunting dogs to hunt mountain lions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-02
Secretary of War Elihu Root has raised concerns over the public reaction towards President Roosevelt hunting a mountain lion within Yellowstone Park, even if such a hunt is within park regulations. Roosevelt asks if the hunt could be performed outside the park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-18
President Roosevelt would like to know how Mr. Jones is employed at Yellowstone Park and is interested in hunting mountain lions when he visits the park. An enclosed letter from Frank Asbury Johnson requests permission to hunt a male grizzly in Yellowstone as a companion to the female grizzly recently donated by Johnson to the Field Columbian Museum.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-17
President Roosevelt thanks Major Pitcher for the interesting letter and congratulates him on his admirable work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-11-25
President Roosevelt would like information on game protection in Yellowstone National Park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-24
On behalf of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, Wilbur S. Hinman explains to John Pitcher that Roosevelt has already pledged to support the two sons of naval officers in their candidacy for paymaster. However, he will make Bryan his “alternate.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-10-15
James Barton Key writes to Major Pitcher to ask for a trooper to patrol the camp grounds at Fort Yellowstone in the evening due to bears.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-27