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Viewing the famous “Old Faithful” geyser in Yellowstone Park with naturalist John Burroughs, Theodore Roosevelt comments, “That beats me!” in response to the sign that reads, “This geyser spouts every minute.”
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1903-04-10
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit, saying that he and Edith along with John Burroughs just returned from their cottage, Pine Knot. Roosevelt is in busy correspondence over the Africa trip but has no definite plans yet. He closes by saying Congress will end in an ugly fight with him.
1908-05-10
The photograph depicts John Burroughs with his granddaughter Betty on his shoulder.
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1904-07
Photograph showing Roosevelt and Burroughs standing on porch with other men including Yellowstone’s superintendent, John Pitcher.
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1903-06-11
Theodore Roosevelt and John Burroughs on the porch of an unidentified building in Fort Yellowstone, Wyoming.
1903
John Burroughs holds the door open for President Roosevelt as the finished Cuban and Reciprocity treaties hang on the wall.
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1903-03-18
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Edwin S. Williams for his kind words and found his experience interesting. He includes John Burroughs’s address.
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1911-11-16
Theodore Roosevelt is unable to comply with Charles N. Elliot’s request that he write an appreciation of John Burroughs in his copy of “Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt.” However, Roosevelt is willing to autograph Elliot’s copy of “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter” if he will send it to him. Roosevelt has written a short paragraph about Oom John in the volume Elliot sent him.
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1911-09-22
Theodore Roosevelt accepts Meyer Lissner’s invitation and discusses the schedule for Roosevelt’s visit to Los Angeles, California.
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1911-02-20
President Roosevelt shall try to look into the actions of the honeybird, which John Burroughs also mentioned to him. Roosevelt wishes he had Charles Sheldon’s age and endurance.
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1909-01-18
President Roosevelt has read everything that Harriet Mann Miller writes, but will especially treasure The Bird Our Brother. He is touched by the inscription. In a handwritten postscript, he tells Miller about the birds he saw while John Burroughs was visiting.
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1908-06-02
President Roosevelt updates his son, Ted, on the goings on in the family. Among other things, he says that he does not think his cousin James Alfred Roosevelt’s marriage match is a good one, that his son Quentin Roosevelt is learning more about baseball, and that his son Archie steered into the freshman crew during a race at Groton. Roosevelt also discusses François Rabelais.
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1908-05-12
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt about the trip he and Edith Roosevelt just took to Pine Knot with John Burroughs. He also says he is “in busy correspondence” about the upcoming Africa trip, and notes that Congress “will end in an ugly fight” with him.
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1908-05-10
President Roosevelt tells his son Archibald B. Roosevelt about his and Edith’s trip to Pine Knot with John Burroughs. Burroughs had a run-in with a family of flying squirrels who live in Archie’s old bedroom.
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1908-05-10
President Roosevelt tells Frank M. Chapman about the birds he and John Burroughs encountered on a trip to Pine Knot.
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1908-05-10
President Roosevelt admits to Estelle M. Hart that he is ashamed that he had not noticed a blue jay’s eyes before.
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1907-07-13
President Roosevelt provides details about his experience as a hunter and a naturalist for Caspar Whitney, editor of The Outing Magazine, for his upcoming article on the nature fakers controversy.
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1907-07-04
President Roosevelt addresses the entire editorial board of The Outlook, as he is unsure which particular editor “had his mind all turned askew” by the writings of William J. Long. Roosevelt appreciates The Outlook’s coverage of topics such as the Brownsville Incident, race relations in San Francisco, and railroad rate legislation, but he takes strong exception to The Outlook describing his distaste for Long’s writing a “controversy.” Roosevelt condems Long’s writings and describes him as a “cheap imposter” who does not observe nature but fabricates nature stories that could not possibly happen. Roosevelt takes issue with The Oulook’s assertions about his comments on Long’s writing, and discusses in detail the “mechanical”—not “mathematical”—impossibility of a wolf killing a caribou with a single bite as Long describes. Roosevelt suggests several naturalists in New York the editors can consult in matters of “nature fakers,” and offers to go page by page through one of Long’s books with The Outlook special nature editor.
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1907-07-03
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President Roosevelt invites Assistant Secretary of State Bacon and William Phillips to lunch on Tuesday. Several naturalists, as well as the superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and fantasy author James Branch Cabell will be there. He asks if Bacon wants him to invite Charles E. Magoon, the minister to Panama.
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1906-02-04