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President Theodore Roosevelt’s train in background and crowd in foreground.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-06-23
President Roosevelt speaking to gathered people from the back of a train
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-06-23
Theodore Roosevelt responds to a letter Mrs. Louise Eustis Hitchcock wrote to Edith Roosevelt. He worries about her health and hopes she will go to Colorado Springs to recuperate. He plans to stop by for a visit once he is cleared by the doctor as a result of an accident. Roosevelt plans to respond to her after he finds out more about the National Security League from Leonard Wood.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-05-29
President Roosevelt praises Professor Sturgis’s proposed forestry school, and is especially pleased that it will be located in the West. Most of the national forests are in the West, but the West lacks professional instruction in forestry.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-27
President Roosevelt sends his congratulations and best wishes for the success of the Colorado Springs Y.M.C.A.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-12
Eleanor L. Burns, acting secretary of the International Congress of Farm Women, shares with Theodore Roosevelt what the organization is doing to improve rural home life for women, and the context for why the organization exists in the first place. Burns asks if Roosevelt can attend the First Congress, and if not if he could write to various members of the County Life Commission to motivate them to participate in the convention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-06
D. B. Fairley is a staunch supporter but has heard conflicting reports of Theodore Roosevelt’s stance on the recall of judges and asks for an explanation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-27
This report summarizes allegations by Inspector Edward B. Linnen related to the construction of a canal in Wyoming which was fraudulently used to claim desert land as having been reclaimed. A second canal was constructed by the company which acquired title to the lands from the original company. In order to effectively irrigate the lands, the second canal had to be constructed in a materially different manner than the first, proving that the first project was a fraud.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-01
This report details how the Big Horn Ditch Company dug an irrigation canal in Wyoming in the 1880s that was not deep enough to irrigate the surrounding land. Nevertheless, government land surrounding the canal was reclaimed based on its alleged irrigation, which the author of the report appears to consider fraudulent. Stockholders in the company include William A. Richards, Commissioner of the General Land Office under President Roosevelt and a former governor of Wyoming. Based on this report, special agents in 1904 required that Red Banks Cattle Company, which owned the land in question and had the same major shareholders as the Big Horn Ditch Company, to deconstruct their enclosures and relinquish the land.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10
Chairman Fairley writes that the Republican State Central Committee has supported Philip Battell Stewart as candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Colorado at the coming Republican Convention. Fairley hopes this will lead to reform in Colorado and ultimately hinder state support for Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan in the 1908 presidential election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-31
German Ambassador Sternburg is delighted to hear of President Roosevelt’s success while hunting in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He sent Roosevelt’s message to German Emperor William II, who proposes sending Tincayos, a canal expert, as a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Emperor William II will also send six railway experts for the upcoming conference. Sternburg reports on possible future events of the Russo-Japanese War.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04-21
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The Board of Control for the 6th Dry Farming Congress invites you to participate in the session of the congress and the international exposition in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10
Theodore Roosevelt is invited to attend a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-21
President Roosevelt rides on a train that is full of items: “grizzly cub,” “petrified pumpkin from Dakota,” “redwood log from California,” and a barrel “from Colorado Springs.” The box of “ostrich eggs” falls off as they head “to Pittsburgh 10 miles.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-03
“One daughter living, Margaret Howell Davis now Mrs. J. A. Hayes, Colorado Springs Colo.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-26
President Roosevelt addresses the citizens of Colorado Springs, thanking the men of the Grand Army who welcomed him. He then talks about the lessons learned from the soldiers of the Civil War, especially in regards to character and citizenship. He also remarks on the future of the nation being dependent on healthy and happy children and the importance of home life.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-04
Gilbert McClurg updates Vice President Roosevelt on the arrangements being made in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for his visit and requests that Roosevelt deliver two speeches.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901
Edmond Kelly offers President Roosevelt the use of his cabins near Colorado Springs, Colorado, should Roosevelt return to the area for hunting. Kelly is pleased that Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-13
Eliza Raybould Allan wishes she could have talked more with Vice President Roosevelt at an event in Colorado Springs. Allan would have traveled to see him speak again but she is poor and could not pay her fare. Allan is also interested in the writing Roosevelt has done on Oliver Cromwell, as she was born in England and lived in the places Cromwell traveled. Allan is trying to raise money to buy a house and asks Roosevelt to find subscribers to help her.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-30