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Eugene W. Waterbury writes to Chester L. Brooks regarding an enclosed newspaper article and mentions Jesse Langdon.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-06-01
Chester L. Brooks writes to Eugene W. Waterbury regarding a previous letter and Brooks’ research of the Rough Riders. Brooks thanks Waterbury for sending an article and asks questions about his time in the Rough Riders.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-06-08
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
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
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
1911-04-13