Rocky Mountain chapter
An unpublished excerpt from The Birch Bark Roll on hunting big game.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-09-11
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President Roosevelt on hunting as a means of military training
Newspaper article with a positive review of The Deer Family, which features five chapters written by President Roosevelt. Roosevelt’s comments on big game hunting as preparation for service in the military is highlighted.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902
“Say, honest, is he really gone?”
Many wild animals in a jungle setting, several wearing bandages, look at a lone footprint in the sand and wonder if Theodore Roosevelt has finally departed, leaving them safe from his big game pursuits.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1910-03-16
Our Teddy’s home coming march
Score for a march celebrating Theodore Roosevelt’s homecoming from Africa and Europe in 1910. Advertisements are included on the back cover.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1910
Teddy da roose
Score, by J. Fred Helf, and lyrics, by Eddie Moran, regarding Theodore Roosevelt’s big game hunting during his African safari.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1910
Uncle Teddy
Score for a German march inspired by Theodore Roosevelt. An advertisement for another piece of music is included on the back page.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1910
Moving day in jungle town
This song and lyrics are based on Theodore Roosevelt’s trip to Africa from 1909-1910. The lyrics by A. Seymour Brown describe the fear of the jungle animals when they hear of Roosevelt’s arrival.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1909
The great American
Piano score for a one-step, march and two-step dedicated to the American Legion in memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Samples for other sheet music are included on the back cover.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1919
Moving day in jungle town
A musical number from the Ziegfeld Revue, The Follies of 1909, describing the fear of the jungle animals when they hear of Theodore Roosevelt’s arrival, based on his trip to Africa from 1909-1910. Lyrics by A. Seymour Brown.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1909
Roosevelt’s grand triumphal march
Score for a march dedicated for “Ex-President Roosevelt’s Triumphal Return from Africa and Europe” and “Played the First Time on Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt’s arrival in New York by a band of 64 musicians on Fifth Avenue June 18, 1910.”
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1912
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles
Theodore Roosevelt is happy that the safari has been a success, although he is homesick and will not listen to those who tell him he should wait to travel home until after the fall elections. Roosevelt is eager to see his articles published in book form, and hopes that it will be received as well as the recent publications were.
Collection
Creation Date
1909-12-17
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles
Theodore Roosevelt writes Anna Roosevelt Cowles to update her on the success of his hunt. He and Kermit Roosevelt are very comfortable and enjoying themselves completely. They are finding Africa to be extremely agreeable.
Collection
Creation Date
1909-05-19
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles
Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt are comfortable and in fine health. Roosevelt believes Kermit is a bit too daring, but Kermit’s marksmanship is improving, and they are enjoying great success. Roosevelt states that he has sent six chapters of his book to Scribner’s, but he has not looked at a newspaper since he left home.
Collection
Creation Date
1909-06-21
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles
Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt have returned to Nairobi to rest after their latest expedition. Kermit hopes to ride in the horse races before they head north next week. Theodore has sent eight articles to Charles Scribner’s Sons and will write several more this trip.
Collection
Creation Date
1909-07-27
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Mason Mitchell
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Mason Mitchell for the tooth-billed pigeon and for Mitchell’s success in getting the Governor of German Samoa to issue an ordinance. Roosevelt also discusses the Uganda elephant foot that was just about the size of Roosevelt’s biggest bull killed at Mount Kenya.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-05-07
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles
Theodore Roosevelt is on an extended trip in the upper Nile region with his son Kermit Roosevelt. He describes the native people, a variety of wildlife, and the big game and birds they are hunting on safari. Kermit’s health is excellent and Roosevelt is pleased at the quality of his own health during their nine-month excursion in Africa. Recently he received a telegram notifying him that Gifford Pinchot had been dismissed as head of the United States Forest Service, which Roosevelt found surprising. He looks forward to seeing his wife Edith Roosevelt.
Collection
Creation Date
1910-01-21
Diary of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1 to June 10, 1910
President Roosevelt’s diary, dated January 1 to June 10, 1910, records details of the animals he and his son, Kermit Roosevelt, killed during their African safari. The diary includes sketches of the animals, with dots marking where they were shot; places Roosevelt and Kermit visited; and meetings with European dignitaries.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Creation Date
1910
Theodore Roosevelt with an elephant
Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt and his African safari guides, R. J. Cuninghame and Leslie J. Tarlton, posing with a dead bull elephant. Cuninghame stands on top, Roosevelt and Tarlton in front.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Creation Date
1909
Ranch wagon with game
Ranch wagon carrying a cow elk, with Wilmot Dow, William Wingate Sewall, and Mr. Tompkins. Taken with Theodore Roosevelt’s camera.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Creation Date
1886
The Saturday Evening Mail: welcome home
Special issue of the magazine section of the Evening Mail commemorating the return of Theodore Roosevelt from his hunting trip in Africa. Contains pictorial accounts of Roosevelt’s travels, articles by Jacob Riis and others, and excerpts of speeches by Roosevelt.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Creation Date
1910-06-18