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President Roosevelt informs John Burroughs that Yellowstone Park bears have been getting their paws stuck in tin cans from garbage heaps, and that Buffalo Jones has been trying to capture the bears to “cure” them. He says the White House is lovely, and red-headed woodpeckers are their most decorative birds.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-12
John Burroughs was very interested to hear Buffalo Jones and the Yellowstone grizzly bears with tin cans stuck on their feet. If President Roosevelt has read any of his latest articles, Burroughs would be glad to receive his thoughts and criticism. Burroughs is considering buying a farm in the southern Catskill region and offers it as a place of rest for Roosevelt and his family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-15
In Frank Bostock’s experience, pumas are cowardly compared to leopards, panthers, and especially bears.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-04
John Burroughs gives his impressions of Theodore Roosevelt in a letter written shortly after Roosevelt’s death in 1919. Burroughs describes visiting Yellowstone National Park with Roosevelt and bird watching at the President’s retreat in rural Virginia, Pine Knot. He notes episodes like the controversy over the “nature faker” naturalists and the feeding of bears in Yellowstone. Burroughs remarks on Roosevelt’s character and on his personality, and he asserts that Roosevelt was not impulsive, but that he did have an oversize personality that would dominate any room he entered.
A photograph of Pine Knot appears on the second page of the article.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1993-1994