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Wheeler Geological Area

Wheeler Geological Area

The Wheeler Geologic Area contains a variety of rock formations formed from volcanic tuff. The area was designated a National Monument by Theodore Roosevelt in 1908, and remained so until 1950 when it was abolished and returned to the Rio Grande National Forest. It was expanded and protected in the 1960s, and in 1993 it was designated as a wilderness area. Reaching the area is difficult, but can be done via a long, 4-wheel drive road.

Collection

Rio Grande National Forest

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

Silver Thread Interpretive Center, South Fork, Colorado

Four wheel drive

Four wheel drive

A description of how to access Wheeler Geologic Area, as well as recommendations of how best to traverse it. The road leading there is “roundabout, rough, and slow,” and requires four wheel drive after a certain point.

Collection

Rio Grande National Forest

Creation Date

1981-05

Creator(s)

Creede Ranger District

Language

English

Over the old vermilion trail

Over the old vermilion trail

The Duluth & Iron Range Rail Road publishes an account of A. W. Tait’s canoe trip along the “Vermilion Route” in northern Minnesota’s lake regions. Vacationers can take the railroad to Ely or Tower and retrace the steps of Tait and his Native American guide, Joe Boshay

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-17

Creator(s)

Unknown

For release Monday, April 17

For release Monday, April 17

Boy Scouts of America’s April 17, 1911 newsletter contains seven articles. Ernest Thompson Seton compares the American Boys Scouts with the British Boy Scouts. The British scouts are more disciplined, whereas the American scouts are skillful at camping and have “greater lung power.” There is a discussion on doing a troop exchange. National Scout Commissioner Daniel Carter Beard discusses how scouts should regard men like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone as heroes rather than Jesse James or Robin Hood-type characters. The Executive Board plans to establish a Scout Masters’ School at Silver Bay, New York, in conjunction with the Boys’ Workers Camp. The two new manuals are almost ready to be published. Lorillard Spencer is planning summer activities for New York scoutmasters. New Jersey scouts are cleaning up areas to prevent mosquitoes. Italian scouts are working on propagating universal peace.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-17

Creator(s)

West, James E. (James Edward), 1876-1948

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

President Roosevelt has decided to appoint W. Cameron Forbes to the Philippine Commission. Roosevelt will gladly stay with Senator Lodge in Nahant, Massachusetts, on Monday. Roosevelt has also recently concluded a somewhat trying camping trip with his children that included 16 miles of rowing. Roosevelt received a nice letter from Senator George Frisbie Hoar, and shall announce Oliver Wendell Holmes’s appointment to the United States Supreme Court today.

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1902-08-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from John Campbell Greenway to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from John Campbell Greenway to Theodore Roosevelt

John Campbell Greenway expects the Roosevelt family to visit him on their way to the Roosevelt dam. He reviews the arrangements that have been made for their visit. Greenway was pleased with the elections and believes the disapproval of the Taft administration was on display. He would like to see a new political party led by Theodore Roosevelt.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1910-11-30

Creator(s)

Greenway, John Campbell, 1872-1926

Back to nature

Back to nature

Vignettes depict man’s return to nature through scenes of hiking, hunting, and camping. Some scenes show a palatial “shack in the woods,” deer being groomed and fed on “The day before open season,” a woman camping with several of the comforts of home, and men hunting moose from an automobile.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-07-20

Creator(s)

Levering, Albert, 1869-1929

Independence Day

Independence Day

A wide-eyed man (Mr. Henry Peck) sits in a canoe loaded with camping gear while a Native guide rows him out on a wilderness lake. A woman (Mrs. Henry Peck) stands on the shore with her hands on her hips. A large building, possibly a lodge, stands at the top of a hillside leading up from the lake.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-07-02

Creator(s)

Unknown

Buffalo hunting

Buffalo hunting

Theodore Roosevelt details the presence and demise of the buffalo in America. In his detailed timeline Roosevelt discusses major innovations and events contributing to the buffalo’s decline, such as the railroad. Two copies of article: one handwritten, one typed with edits.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

That camping trip

That camping trip

On the left, “as they pictured it in advance,” a group of men finds an orderly campsite, canoes and serenades by moonlight, has a well appointed guide, and finds plenty of wild game to eat. On the right, “as it panned out in reality,” the men find a disorganized campsite in the rain, take a disastrous canoe trip, have a buffoonish guide, and eat canned food.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-10-04

Creator(s)

Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933