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J. D. McMillan of the Greenwood Hunting Club invites Theodore Roosevelt to join the Club in black bear hunting in November or December.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-11
President Roosevelt sits at his desk writing an extensive message as a young body turns a large wheel of paper. On the wall are mounts of a “black bear” and a “bob cat” and beside Roosevelt’s desk is his suitcase and his rifle.
President Roosevelt returned to Washington from a speaking tour of the Midwest and South, punctuated by a two-week bear hunt, on October 19, 1907. At the tail end of his railroad swing north, “short selling” by men who had hoped to corner the copper market resulted rather in their bankruptcy, and that of brokerage houses, other commodity firms, and banks.
President Roosevelt found the sketch and photographs interesting. Roosevelt gives his opinion on how moose, bears, and wolves fight.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-10
President Roosevelt sends George Bird Grinnell the piece and the photographs. Roosevelt wants all of the photographs included in the piece. He emphasizes that grizzlies and black bears are shown in the photographs. Roosevelt urges Grinnell to be cautious in calling sheep animals of the plains, as this is a misrepresentation of the animal’s real character.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-27
Postcard featuring a movable seesaw with Theodore Roosevelt in his Rough Rider uniform on the left and a black bear with fur on the right. The background is colored and shows a grassy area and several buildings in the distance.
1908
In this edition of the “Book Reviews” section, Paul Russell Cutright and Philip J. Roosevelt provide separate but equally laudatory reviews of American Bears, a collection of writings about bears and bear hunting by Theodore Roosevelt edited by Paul Schullery. Kenneth D. Crews finds that Roosevelt plays a minor, but important, role in Carlton Jackson’s The Dreadful Month about the awful death toll in American coal mines in December 1907. John A. Gable examines Paul D. Casdorph’s Republicans, Negroes, and Progressives in the South, 1912-1916 and compares some its findings to his own work on the Progressive Party.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1983
William Sturgis Bigelow has found a black bear cub and wants to know if the animal should be sent to President Roosevelt’s children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-18