No use kicking – cowboys saddling a wild horse, Roosevelt Day, Cheyenne, Wyo.
Men look on as cowboys try to saddle a horse
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1903-07-28
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Animal training
Letter from Ellen Velvin to Theodore Roosevelt
Ellen Velvin describes her personal experiences with pumas, including that they do not seem as ferocious as the other big cats.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-07-31
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Letter from Harry E. Tudor to Theodore Roosevelt
Harry E. Tudor explains to President Roosevelt that Frank Charles Bostock is an expert and will write to him to better answer all his questions. Tudor and the other trainers agree with Roosevelt’s opinion that the puma is a particularly cowardly animal. Tudor invites the president and his family to visit the arena for a private performance. He assures Roosevelt that animals still have “the greater part of that native wildness” despite living in captivity.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-07-21
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The “peanut” Hagenbeck and his “senatorial courtesy” animal show
David B. Hill as the animal trainer Carl “Hagenbeck” performs a circus act with trained animals labeled “Murphy, Pugh, Chandler, Peffer, Morgan, Coke, Higgins, Stewart, Teller, Cullom, [and] Hoar.” Hill is standing at center with a bag of “Peanut Politics” at his feet. He holds a whip in his right hand and a string in his left, which is attached to a ring in the nose of “Murphy” as a dancing bear. “Pugh” as a monkey sits on the floor. The other animals are standing on short pedestals arranged around the rear of the cage.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1894-02-07
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Overtraining young horses
A horse labeled “Butler’s Policy” ridden by Benjamin F. Butler is kicking up its rear legs, startling a horse labeled “Cleveland’s Policy” ridden by Grover Cleveland at the “Presidential Race-Course” where “Horses [are] Trained for Presidential Races.” The “Gubernatorial Training Stables” are at far left. Gathered beneath a large tree on the right, observing, are John Logan, Roscoe Conkling, James Gillespie Blaine, John Sherman, David Davis, Winfield Scott Hancock, Ulysses S. Grant, Schuyler Colfax, and Samuel J. Tilden. Caption: Dismounted Jockeys – The horses look well enough now; but they began training too early; and will break down long before the race!
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1883-01-31
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Scenes and behind scenes at the Metropolitan opera
Giulio Gatti-Casazza, with the trained animals for various operas, and a woman sit in the “celebrated ‘Horseshoe'” section of the opera house. The surrounding vignettes show Alfred Hertz as a young man and as the current conductor, Enrico Caruso, “Italy’s Standing Army,” which is a group of men dressed for the theater, possibly critics, actors with props, and a prima donna too large to “fit the chairs of the period.”
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1915-01-09