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Theodore Roosevelt informs H. D. Minot that he enjoyed his time at camp and was successful in hunting and fishing. Roosevelt also describes the various species of birds that he saw.
1877-07-11
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna telling her about the happenings on his trip to the Bighorn Mountains. There have been a few bad storms, but overall the weather, and the trip, have been very good.
1884-08-24
President Roosevelt thanks Frederick Courteney Selous for the recent letter containing travel suggestions and details changes he has made in light of it. He compares his own past adventures and future safari to Selous’s travels. Roosevelt responds to Selous’s comments on potential safari guides, and asks if Selous will confer with Edward North Buxton on the topic and send back his suggestions. In a postscript, he asks for Selous’s opinion on taking William C. Judd with him, specifically as a caravan manager and guide.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-12
President Roosevelt tells Philip Battell Stewart that he wishes he could have been in camp with Stewart. Roosevelt also informs Stewart about happenings in the New Mexico Territory.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-13
President Roosevelt asks Frank Ross McCoy to relay his regards to Yosemite park rangers John D. Alger and Archibald C. Leonard, remembering “the two bully camps we had” on a recent camping trip. While Roosevelt sympathizes with McCoy about the bears, he views it as good that they found refuge in Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks. He agrees with McCoy regarding the Japanese.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-19
President Roosevelt sends Edward McKay a photograph of him in the Rough Riders, and says he will always think of him as “one of Uncle Sam’s little boys,” and remembers him playing with Roosevelt’s son, Quentin. Roosevelt tells McKay about all the sports and activities his sons Quentin and Archie are involved in, and describes a camping trip where two bold young foxes visited the party.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-30
George B. Grant informs Theodore Roosevelt that he saw Kermit Roosevelt at Elbow Camp on the Nepisiquit River in New Brunswick, Canada. Kermit was enjoying the camp and working hard on his hunting. The weather was very cold and there was a snow storm. Grant killed a moose and black bear on his trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-27
President Roosevelt camps outside of the “White House,” which is full of gifts. He reads a book entitled “The Simple Life,” as he cooks food over a fire.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02
At 9:00 a.m., President Roosevelt signs a paper that reads, “Grafting must be stopped.” At 10:00 a.m., Roosevelt points to a banner that reads, “Why certainly, Wilkes-Barre, anything to oblige.” At noon, Roosevelt holds a picnic basket and a fishing rod as he walks with several children. At 1:00 p.m., Roosevelt talks on the telephone. At 2:00 p.m., Roosevelt hands a “letter to peace conferences” to a messenger. At 4:00 p.m., Roosevelt travels in a submarine and says, “Delighted!” At 8:00 p.m., Roosevelt sits in a rocking chair writing poetry with a book of “poems” beside him. At 10:00 p.m., Roosevelt falls asleep in a tent. The moon says, “Delighted.” A handwritten note is included: Respectfully submitted.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-28
President Roosevelt tells stories around the campfire to several young children. He says, “Then that bear stood right straight up on his hind legs and opened his mouth to roar. He had tusks like a walrus and his eyes glowed like coals of fire. His claws—” Caption: The President and ten of the youngsters belonging to the several Roosevelt families have been camping out at the Cape of Happy Chance, near Oyster Bay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-20
President Roosevelt sits and talks with Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Jutarō Komura and two other men around a campfire at “Camp Sagamore.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-28
A photograph of Grace Green Alexander, mother of Eleanor Butler Alexander, washing her hair while the two were on vacation in and around Yellowstone Park.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-1909
A photograph of a campsite on Slough Creek taken while Eleanor Butler Alexander and her mother Grace Green Alexander were on vacation in and around Yellowstone Park.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-1909
This cartoon depicts Theodore Roosevelt leaping over a gap between two rock faces trying to capture a bear with only his right hand while dragging a cougar with his left hand. In addition, there is a dog seen falling in between the gap because he was unable to leap as far as President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-15
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Kermit Roosevelt regarding his hunting trip, during which he killed a prong buck.
1896-08-30
President of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Marvin Hughitt writes to President Roosevelt to say his son, Marvin Hughitt, Jr., would be pleased to entertain Kermit or Ted Roosevelt. He offers them fishing and boating in Wisconsin, or duck and chicken hunting in Minnesota or Dakota.
1907-05-13
Theodore Roosevelt describes the flora, fauna, and mosquitoes at the camp in San Antonio, Texas.
1898-05-20
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna about hiking and camping in Maine. He describes some of the problems they have encountered as well as some of the more enjoyable parts of the trip.
1879-09-14
President Roosevelt, wearing buckskin and a raccoon hat, sits by a campfire at night, holding a knife, his rifle by his side. In the shadows beyond the light of the fire are a snake labeled “Mormonism,” a bull labeled “Beef Trust,” a strange bird labeled “Merger Bird,” a large fuel tank labeled “Oil Trust” with a snake-like appendage extending from the front with the head of John D. Rockefeller, and a bat labeled “Castro.” A tent is behind Roosevelt, on the right.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-05-03
Photograph of Lady Bird Johnson’s campsite at the Halliday Well Recreation Center in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1965-07