Bighorn sheep caught in a fence
A close up view of a deceased bighorn sheep caught in the boundary fence of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1969-05-16
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Bighorn sheep
Bighorn sheep caught in a fence
A deceased bighorn sheep lies caught and twisted in the boundary fence of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1969-05-16
Creator(s)
Staff with a captured bighorn sheep
Photograph of a trapped bighorn sheep blindfolded by staff during a roundup in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1966-01-25
Creator(s)
Staff loading a bighorn sheep onto a truck
Photograph of a bighorn sheep being loaded onto a truck by staff after a roundup in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
Unknown
Creator(s)
Trapped bighorn sheep about to be blindfolded
Photograph of a trapped bighorn sheep about to be blindfolded by staff during a roundup in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1960-01-16
Creator(s)
Staff blindfolding a bighorn sheep
Photograph of staff trapping and blindfolding a bighorn sheep during a roundup in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1960-02-18
Creator(s)
Completed bighorn sheep trap
Photograph of completed bighorn sheep trap used for roundups in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1960
Creator(s)
Bighorn sheep trap construction
Photograph of staff constructing a bighorn sheep trap in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1960
Creator(s)
Blindfolded bighorn sheep during roundup
Photograph of blindfolded bighorn sheep in a trap pen during a roundup conducted by the National Park Service and North Dakota Game and Fish in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1975-09
Creator(s)
Bighorn skeleton
Photograph of the skeleton of a bighorn sheep, dead of unknown causes, found in the bighorn enclosure in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1964-07
Creator(s)
National Park Service; Johnson, Einar Leonard, 1936-; Wintch, Michael Ott, 1937-
Bighorn skeleton
Photograph of the skeleton of a bighorn sheep, dead of unknown causes, found in the bighorn enclosure in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, summer 1964.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1964
Creator(s)
National Park Service; Johnson, Einar Leonard, 1936-; Wintch, Michael Ott, 1937-
Bighorn sheep being released
Photograph of a bighorn sheep being released back into the park after an inoculation roundup in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1962-01-15
Creator(s)
Bighorn sheep in a pen
Photograph of four bighorn sheep in a pen during a roundup in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1962-01-15
Creator(s)
Photograph of taxidermied bighorn sheep head
Photograph of a taxidermied bighorn sheep head; taken in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1969-04
Creator(s)
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frederick Courteney Selous
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt sends Frederik Courteney Selous maps of Montana and Wyoming to use on his upcoming hunting trip to the region around Yellowstone National Park. Roosevelt has marked these maps with the routes he believes he had taken when he hunted in the areas, but he is unsure of their accuracy. Roosevelt informs Selous of the areas where he successfully hunted various big game animals, such as elk, bighorn sheep, and wolves.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1897-05-18
Creator(s)
Letter from C. Hart Merriam to Theodore Roosevelt
C. Hart Merriam sends President Roosevelt information he requested about the Biological Survey for use in Roosevelt’s message to Congress. Merriam just returned from a trip along the Mexican boundary. He learned that the Desert Bighorn is still common in the Colorado desert and that the mule deer sticks to the desert.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-11-01
Creator(s)
Letter from Edward Kemeys to Theodore Roosevelt
Edward Kemeys sends Christmas greetings to President Roosevelt, along with a poem he wrote inspired by a Bighorn sheep that is now over his mantle.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-12-25
Creator(s)
Poem To the Wild Sheep, Christmas Eve 1902
Edward Kemeys writes a poem to commemorate a bighorn sheep that he killed and had mounted.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-12-24
Creator(s)
Letter from C. B. Nordhoff to Theodore Roosevelt
C. B. Nordhoff has read President Roosevelt’s The Wilderness Hunter and is interested in the goats that Roosevelt describes as living in Southern and Baja California. Nordhoff argues that he has hunted in this region and has never heard of any goats such as Roosevelt described, although he does admit to seeing bighorn sheep.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-11-27
Creator(s)
Letter from C. Hart Merriam to Theodore Roosevelt
C. Hart Merriam encloses a leaflet that contains three additions to the “big game.” They have collected eight skins and skulls of the Mexican bighorn. Merriam requests that Roosevelt send the cougar skulls “uncleaned.” Roosevelt’s series of samples will help make determinations about the amount of individual variation.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-04-06