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President Roosevelt would like supervisors in the Forest Reserve to be able to select their own employees. He would like this system tested by Captain Bullock of the Black Hills reserve in South Dakota.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-25
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt urged the people in his department to work quickly, and sends the enclosed document to Joseph Bucklin Bishop. He hopes it will give Bishop the information he was looking for, and that it will encourage him to back Roosevelt in his push to build up the navy, “not as a war measure but as a peace measure.” Roosevelt looks forward to seeing Bishop and hearing about the mayoral candidacy of Seth Bullock.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-06-15
Secretary of War Stimson sends Theodore Roosevelt a letter from Alfred E. Stearns, the principal of Phillips Academy. He hopes Roosevelt can do as Stearns suggests as he found that many believe in the false standards of life because of the influence of their educational experiences. Stimson hopes Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has recovered.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-09
William H. Miller Jr. writes to inform Theodore Roosevelt on the status of the stallion he gifted the United States government by way of Roosevelt. The horse, “Pat Murphy”, is in good shape and Miller would be honored to have the chance to cooperate with the government further, should they show interest in breeding more Morgan Horses. He once again thanks Roosevelt for the opportunity to work together before sharing several memories he has of South Dakota.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-25
Frank Ross McCoy sends Theodore Roosevelt birthday greetings and also sends what he believes are the first holiday greetings to Roosevelt and his hunting party in Africa. McCoy has seen many of his and Roosevelt’s mutual friends and tells him about activities that they have been undertaking in the southwest, including marches and hunting trips. He updates Roosevelt on changes in military training and updated service regulations and also discusses the International Horse Show, in which Americans are competing against British officers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-10-27
As per Theodore Roosevelt’s conversation with Seth Bulloch, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will organize the transportation of a Morgan stallion to one of the Department of Agriculture’s farms.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-20
Howard Eaton has heard a rumor that President Roosevelt is postponing his African safari. If this is true, Eaton invites Roosevelt and his family to the Eaton Brothers ranch in Wolf, Wyoming, to rest after he leaves the presidency. Eaton also praises the President on his accomplishments and shares that he and others on the ranch voted for President-Elect William H. Taft, but wish they could re-elect Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-24
Kermit Roosevelt discusses President Roosevelt’s hunting trip and tells him that he is looking forward to his trip with Seth Bullock next summer. He also discusses current matters, including the trouble he is having in school and the cold weather they are having.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04-23
Gifford Pinchot informs President Roosevelt that Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson and Senator Alfred B. Kittredge will meet to discuss the possibility of transferring the forest reserves in the Black Hills to the Department of Agriculture. Kittredge is against the proposal but says he will support the bill if Wilson can convince him it is a good idea. Pinchot heard that Seth Bullock was behind the opposition and suggests to Roosevelt that it may be prudent to write Bullock.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-15
Michael F. Moran chronicles the Strenuous Life Adventure trip to South Dakota, Wyoming, and North Dakota undertaken by members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) in September 2018. Moran notes the many sites connected to Theodore Roosevelt visited by the group, including Jewel Cave and Devils Tower National Monument, and Wind Cave and Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Moran provides details about the group’s visits to each of these sites along with its stop at Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Moran notes Roosevelt’s friendship with Seth Bullock and highlights Fritz R. Gordner’s climb of Devils Tower.
The text is supplemented with thirteen color photographs and is followed by a nine page photo gallery of fifty-four color photographs.
Photograph showing President Roosevelt with his “Tennis Cabinet” on the White House lawn on March 1, 1909, when a farewell luncheon was held for the group. Shown from left to right behind Theodore Roosevelt are military aide Archie Butt, Third Assistant Secretary of State William Phillips, Commissioner of the Bureau of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop, Chief of U.S. Forest Service Gifford Pinchot, Comptroller of Currency Lawrence O. Murray, U.S. District Attorney Henry L. Stimson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Associate Justice William H. Moody, U.S. District Attorney John Carter Rose, Secretary of the Navy Truman Handy Newberry, G. W. Woodruff, French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand, William Walter Heffelfinger, Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer, Commission of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp, John Avery McIlhenny, Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, U.S. Marshal Seth Bullock, Solicitor General Henry Martyn Hoyt, U.S. Marshal John R. Abernathy, Luther S. Kelly, Secretary of State Robert Bacon, Commissioner of Labor Charles Patrick Neill, William Wingate Sewall, Commissioner General of Immigration Daniel J. Keefe, First Assistant Secretary of State James Callan O’Laughlin, James Bronson Reynolds, Henry S. Pritchett, and secretary William Loeb. In the foreground is the Alexander Phimster Proctor sculpture, “Stalking Panther,” which was presented to Roosevelt by his “Tennis Cabinet” at the luncheon.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-03-01
Ray H. Mattison describes the methodology used to try to discover the exact location of Theodore Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch. Mattison includes a historical background of the ranch, from its original construction and occupation by Roosevelt, William Wingate Sewall and Wilmot S. Dow, through its later abandonment and deconstruction. The primary method used by Mattison to determine the site of the Elkhorn was through a comparative study of photographs between those taken by Roosevelt in 1886 and contemporary photographs Mattison took in 1949. Additionally, Mattison interviewed a number of “Old Timers,” who were familiar with the Elkhorn Ranch, and who were able to corroborate the conclusions he came to based on the photographs.
1950-01
Single page from Wind Cave National Park guest book featuring the signature of Seth Bullock.
1902-12-30
Single page from Wind Cave National Park guest book featuring the signature of Seth Bullock.
1902-11-11
Single page from Wind Cave National Park guest book featuring the signature of Seth Bullock.
1902-10-21
On July 4, 1919, a mountain peak in the Black Hills is renamed and dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. Located near Deadwood, South Dakota, in the region where Roosevelt hunted and ranched in the 1880s, Mount Roosevelt is dedicated by the Society of Black Hills Pioneers, of which Roosevelt had been an honorary member. Leonard Wood, a close friend of Roosevelt and principal speaker at the ceremony, and Captain Seth Bullock, Roosevelt’s neighbor in his ranching days, speak informally with crowd members. There are views of the speakers’ platform, with the following men speaking at various points in service: South Dakota Governor Peter Norbeck, Wood, and former South Dakota Representative to Congress, Eben W. Martin. Also identified on platform are Bullock, at whose suggestion the mountain is being renamed, and Roosevelt Memorial Association member, Hermann Hagedorn. There are long shots of Roosevelt Monument, a circular tower with a parapet. Wood is seen walking along the narrow ledge of the monument to reach the speakers’ platform, which is erected in front of the monument. A close shot of a bronze plaque set in the side of the monument, shows an inscription that reads “In Memory of Theodore Roosevelt, The American.”
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1919-07-04
President Roosevelt describes his “western trip” in this letter to Secretary of State Hay. The letter has been bound in a book and entitled The western trip of President Roosevelt 1903–Manuscript letter. He lists his traveling companions, places visited, delivering speeches, traveling by train, people encountered (especially “Hell-roaring Bill Jones”), the scenery, and going to church.
1903-08-09
Portrait of Seth Bullock, Sheriff of Deadwood, South Dakota and friend of Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1893
Clippings from the Philadelphia Public Ledger includes stories about Herman Henry Kohlsaat’s visit to President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill for the third time in two months, where he spoke to the president about financial legislation – Kohlsaat claimed that his visit had no public significance and did not pertain to rumored changes in the Cabinet; Roosevelt plans to attend a memorial for New Jersey soldiers at the Antietam battlefield; Senator Nathan B. Scott spoke about Roosevelt’s upcoming presidential campaign, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., while visiting Seth Bullock in North Dakota, makes a bet with his father that he can beat the elder Roosevelt’s time riding from Laramie, Wyoming, to Cheyenne, that the president recorded the previous spring.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-24
S. Denison is on assignment in Connecticut and Collier’s Weekly has instructed him to get a statement from Vice President Roosevelt regarding the police situation. Denison is uncomfortable with the assignment and understands that Roosevelt may not want to make a statement. Next month, Denison is traveling to Deadwood, South Dakota, to visit Seth Bullock.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-25