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Photograph of ranch hands branding a calf during a round up at the Maltese Cross Ranch located several miles south of the town of Medora, North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1958-06
Photograph of ranch hands branding a calf during a round up at the Maltese Cross Ranch located several miles south of the town of Medora, North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1958-06
President Roosevelt sits in a chair as three cowboys ride horses behind him, each one carrying a lasso with a different word. The first reads, “we want,” the second reads, “Teddy,” and the third reads, “another term.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-13
President Roosevelt walks quickly following a sign that reads “to the rough riders’ reunion!!!” while Admiral Lucien Young, William Loeb, “representatives of the press,” and “reception committee of prominent citizens” struggle to keep up. To Roosevelt’s left is the “Alamo” and four cowboys who fire their revolvers. An “official photographer” tries to capture a picture. Caption: He arrives in “San Antone.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04-06
Hermann Hagedorn’s 1919 silent film in which he interviews former friends of Theodore Roosevelt’s from his time in the North Dakota Badlands. Included are images of Medora, North Dakota, in 1919 and a cattle roundup. W. W. Reid was the principal photographer and the film was sponsored by the Roosevelt Memorial Association (Theodore Roosevelt Association).
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1919
Photograph of Louis Albert Pelissier on horseback in the badlands of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-05-01
Group photograph of cowboys standing in front of the LZ Club Room in Medora, North Dakota. Pictured: Antone Haynes, Gus Bell, Henry Peterson, John Britt Sam, Henry Johnson, Ed Dietz, Jay Braun, and Scharyler Lebo.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Unknown
Photograph of Jack Connell breaking in a roped mare near the historic Peaceful Valley Ranch log barn in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-05-01
Theodore Roosevelt is pictured as the President of Harvard University, wearing a cap and gown but also spurs, conferring a degree of doctor of laws upon a man with a very large mustache dressed in full cowboy gear. There is a bear skin on the floor of the stage. Another cowboy in the background is shooting both his guns in celebration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-19
Photograph of a cowboy bronco busting a horse at the Medora rodeo grounds in the town of Medora, North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Unknown
Photograph of a cowboy bronco busting a horse that fell backwards on the rider killing him. Photograph taken at the old Buddy Ranch prior to the creation of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Unknown
Photograph of rancher George Gardner on a horse taken at the old Buddy Ranch prior to the creation of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Unknown
Photograph of Bill “Badlands” McCarty on his horse “Rebel,” taken amongst the badlands prior to the creation of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Theodore Roosevelt writes to Kermit Roosevelt to say he loves Kermit’s letters but hardly has time to answer them. He describes seeing a Choctaw Indian and a cowboy riding horses bareback and says he is going to get on his horse, Texas, and drill two squadrons.
1898-05-20
Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit from the camp of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry outside San Antonio, Texas. He describes camp life and how he will not be able to write much because he is so busy.
1898-05-16
President Roosevelt says “Big Jim,” whom he knew in North Dakota, visited the White House and attended lunch. Roosevelt also says his thigh is still bothering him and tells Kermit not to worry about his lessons.
1904-12-02
Charles A. Peabody, president of Mutual Life, and Alexander E. Orr, president of New York Life, play poker with Samuel Untermeyer. Each is holding a handful of “Proxies” in one hand and a pistol in the other. Caption: A quiet game of freeze-out in life insurance gulch.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-10-03
Six cowboys, one labeled “Coal Trust” and another labeled “Miner’s Union,” all carry handguns which they are using to force a diminutive man labeled “Small Consumer” to dance.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-04-25
Photograph of a 1937 oil painting of two hunters on horseback chasing a herd of American bison through a grassy field.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1966-03
President Roosevelt appears as a cowboy, on horseback, with Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma, on foot, driving cattle labeled “High Protectionist, Senatorial Pledge Breaker, [and] Beet Sugar Senator” into the “Reciprocity Corral.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-12-17