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Standard of honors for the Camp Fire Club of American which lists big game animals from Africa divided into Honor and High Honor classifications. To be considered for an honor, applicants must submit the required proof, and a committee will take into consideration the difficulties overcome, any risk involved, the rarity of the species, and the location the animal was killed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-16
This song briefly pictures Theodore Roosevelt’s exploits on safari in Africa, and imagines the responses of the animals Roosevelt wishes to hunt. After calling a congress in the hopes they can negotiate with the “fearless hunter man,” the animals variously try to frighten Roosevelt away or flee, but to no avail.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1909
Two paintings by John Seerey-Lester from his book The Legendary Hunts of Theodore Roosevelt appear on the front and back covers of this issue. Both paintings depict Theodore Roosevelt in outdoor settings tied to hunting.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2015
In his review of Darrin Lunde’s The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, a Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History, Lowell E. Baier identifies the two theses that animate the book: that Theodore Roosevelt was a world class museum naturalist and that he was the most important conservationist of his time. Baier provides context for and discusses many of Roosevelt’s encounters with the natural world, and he lists many of the explorers, writers, conservationists, and fellow hunters who shaped his thoughts and actions. Baier praises Lunde for placing Roosevelt’s hunting in the context of his times and for acknowledging that Roosevelt hunted for both sport and science, but he faults Lunde for not recognizing the adrenaline rush of hunting and for not treating Roosevelt’s conservation record as president in greater detail.
The front cover of Lunde’s book, two photographs, and three paintings by John Seerey-Lester populate the review.
In his review of J. Lee Thompson’s Theodore Roosevelt Abroad, which studies Theodore Roosevelt’s 1909 to 1910 journey to Africa and Europe, Robert Wexelblatt highlights Thompson’s discussion of Roosevelt’s hunting ethics, his views on imperialism and race, and his commitment to a strong relationship between the United States and Great Britain. Wexelblatt also focuses on Roosevelt’s interactions with Kaiser William II of Germany. Wexelblatt credits Thompson for pointing out shortcomings in Roosevelt’s thoughts and actions, and he employs several block quotes to highlight passages from Thompson and Roosevelt.
The front cover illustration of the book appears at the center of the second page of the review.
Gary Rice examines how the press covered Theodore Roosevelt’s 1909-1910 African safari. Rice stresses that Roosevelt wanted to severely restrict journalists’ access to his safari because the former president had signed contracts to publish his own articles and books, and he wanted to control what was written. Rice also notes that the press extensively covered Roosevelt’s preparations for the trip, and he highlights a scandal that erupted when a French journalist published an unauthorized story about Roosevelt during the safari. Roosevelt later relented and allowed American reporters Robert W. Foran and Warrington Dawson to file reports from Africa.
Rice notes that much of the coverage of the safari dealt with the number of animals Roosevelt had killed, and it stoked debates about the ethics of Roosevelt’s hunting. Rice concludes that Roosevelt’s safari and its coverage provided him with “an even bigger, more favorable public image.” Three photographs of Roosevelt in Africa appear in the article.
James F. Vivian provides a look at Theodore Roosevelt’s time in the North Dakota Badlands with a collection of newspaper accounts, ranging from 1898 to 1915, drawn from interviews with Roosevelt’s friends, fellow ranchers, cowboys, and acquaintances. Vivian provides an introduction and an afterword to the article, as well as an introduction to each of its twelve sections. The accounts include reminiscences from the likes of William Sewall, Arthur T. Packard, and the brothers Sylvane Ferris and Joseph Ferris. Vivian contends that these interviews “corroborate the content and quality” of the work done by Hermann Hagedorn in his book Roosevelt in the Bad Lands.
Ten photographs appear in the article, including three of Roosevelt’s contemporaries, Frederick Herrig, James W. Foley, and Arthur T. Packard, along with two photographs of the museum dedicated to Roosevelt onboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. An illustration by Frederic Remington of Roosevelt’s capture of the boat thieves, and a text box with a listing of the members of the executive committee of the Theodore Roosevelt Association supplement the text.
Three works come under consideration in the “Book Reviews” section. Cole Patrick looks at both the 1941 and 1989 editions of the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia. He comments on the work of Albert Bushnell Hart in compiling and editing the first edition, and he quotes from William Allen White’s foreword from 1941. Patrick explains the various additions made to the 1989 edition by John A. Gable of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), including a bibliography, a chronology of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, and a history of the TRA.
Tweed Roosevelt examines Bartle Bull’s Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure and highlights its coverage of Theodore Roosevelt’s African safari of 1909-1910, and he also looks at other figures, British and American, who made safaris. He praises the book’s organization and illustrations but faults it for not giving a sense of who the hunters were as people, Roosevelt included. Marilyn E. Weigold praises Elizabeth Winthrop’s novel, In My Mother’s House, for its “precise descriptions of life in Manhattan in the last few decades of the nineteenth century.” The novel’s main character is based on the life of the daughter of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt’s sister.
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt watching a man measure a rhinoceros’s horn.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1919
Photograph showing zoologist Edmund Hellers and two Africans skinning and preparing an animal hide in a tent.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-04-04
Photograph shows hunter R. J. Cunninghame and Theodore Roosevelt inspecting a skull in front of a tent.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-04-04
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt & Kermit Roosevelt with three eland heads in front of a tent.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1919-05-14
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Photograph shows hunter R. J. Cunninghame, Kermit Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller, and Hugh H. Heatley standing with African buffalo skulls in front of tent.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1919-05-14
Photograph showing a male lion shot by Kermit Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1919-05-14
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt with a dead rhinoceros and a bustard shot from the rhinoceros.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-05-14
Photograph shows Theodore Roosevelt and others including African men with a dead elephant at Meru, Kenya.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1919-05-14
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt standing behind the carcass of a rhinoceros.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-05-14
Newspaper clipping of cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt, holding a rifle, looking at oversize tracks labeled “The third term idea.” An elephant hides nearby in the brush.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908
A poem by Reverend Stubenvoll that refers to Theodore Roosevelt as “teddy bear” and recounts his accomplishments.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-07
A description of the Camp Fire Club of America’s standard of honors program including the class systems, areas of skill, and a list of honors awarded to individuals.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-10