Bombastes furioso Roosevelt
Colonel Alexander S. Bacon accuses President Roosevelt of lying about his charge on San Juan Hill.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-08-14
Your TR Source
Campaigns, Military
Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Russell Reid
Historian Chester L. Brooks is forwarding the microfilm of military records. He believes that Colonel David Sloane Stanley’s memoirs are valuable to North Dakota and Montana history, particularly the 1873 letters to Stanley’s wife. The recorder is working well and Brooks has plans to record “old timers.”
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-05-12
Creator(s)
Letter from Ray W. Lingk to Chester L. Brooks
Ray W. Lingk is continuing his research on the Sentinel Butte graves and is attempting to locate old maps with military trails.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-05-10
Creator(s)
Letter from Dana Wright to Russell Reid
Dana Wright provides an update on his attempts to locate the course of General Sully’s 1864 expedition.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-05-24
Creator(s)
General Alfred Sully’s Expedition of 1864 from east end of Sentinel Butte to Yellowstone
Dana Wright believes that he has located General Alfred Sully’s camp on the east end of Sentinel Butte. He summarizes his recent research on the Sully Expedition.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-05-22
Creator(s)
Letter from Herman R. Friis to Chester L. Brooks
Chief Archivist Herman R. Friis has located a photostat of the map requested by Historian Chester L. Brooks and a positive photostat will be created and mailed. The map is of “General J. N. G. Whistler’s reconnaissance from the Missouri River to the Yellowstone River in 1871.”
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-05-26
Creator(s)
Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Dallas Irvine
Historian Chester L. Brooks provides a description of a map he has requested from the National Archives. The map is of General Joseph N. G. Whistler’s 1871 expedition.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-05-18
Creator(s)
Letter from Dana Wright to M. Catherine White
Dana Wright thanks M. Catherine White for the research material and provides his opinion on the Sully expedition’s route near the Yellowstone River and Brasseau’s House.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-05-09
Creator(s)
Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Ray W. Lingk
Historian Chester L. Brooks offers several corrections regarding a series of articles Ray W. Lingk wrote on military expeditions in western North Dakota.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-04-21
Creator(s)
Letter from Elisabeth H. Gazin to Chester L. Brooks
No photographs of the 1873 Stanley expedition were found at the Smithsonian Institution or the National Archives.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-04-13
Creator(s)
Letter from Herman R. Friis to Chester L. Brooks
The map of the 1864 Sully Expedition drawn by Lieutenant Colonel Pattee and requested by Historian Brooks could not be located. However, Chief Archivist Friis provides information on a different map from the same expedition, a copy of which could be provided upon request.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-02-27
Creator(s)
Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Frank L. Anders
Historian Chester L. Brooks is working on a book, The Badlands to 1879, and requests information and assistance with completing the section on military trails.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-04-16
Creator(s)
Letter from Dana Wright to Chester L. Brooks
Dana Wright is sending a few maps and would be pleased to make some trips with Chester L. Brooks. He hopes that Major Frank L. Anders publishes or releases his notes on the North Dakota military trails as they are the most complete source on the subject.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-04-10
Creator(s)
Letter from Chester L. Brooks to K. Ross Toole
Historian Chester L. Brooks requests information on an 1877 expedition by Major H. M. Lazelle.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-03-10
Creator(s)
Letter from Richard G. Wood to Chester L. Brooks
The National Archives does not loan out older records, but will try to make arrangements with the National Park Service to have microfilm available of the “records relating to Yellowstone Expeditions of 1871, 1872, and 1873.”
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-02-19
Creator(s)
Letter from Chester L. Brooks
Historian Chester L. Brooks requests a copy of an article written by Lewis C. Paxson, an early Lake City resident, who was part of the Sully Expedition of 1864.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1952-12-15
Creator(s)
Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Dana Wright
Historian Chester L. Brooks asks Dana Wright to speak at a meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Nature and History Association on the military history of western North Dakota. He would also appreciate Wright’s help with a research project, “The Badlands to 1879.”
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1952-12-24
Creator(s)
Letter from Dana Wright to Chester L. Brooks
Dana Wright encloses his membership fee for the Nature and History Association of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. He has been researching the Sully expeditions and the Sibley march of 1863.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1952-12-29
Creator(s)
Letter from Chester L. Brooks to Dana Wright
Historian Chester L. Brooks encloses The Journal of Private Ole Johnson which was helpful with his research on military trails.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-01-13
Creator(s)
Letter from Chester L. Brooks
Historian Chester L. Brooks requests several maps for his research on military trails in western North Dakota.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1953-01-22