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Reproduced historical photograph of cowboys on horseback roping cattle owned by the Marquis de Morès at Beef Corral Bottom, originally taken in the 1880s.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Reproduced historical photograph of cowboys branding cattle owned by the Marquis de Morès in a ready chute at Beef Corral Bottom, originally taken in the 1880s.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Reproduced historical photograph of cowboys branding cattle owned by the Marquis de Morès in a cattle pen at Beef Corral Bottom, originally taken in the 1880s.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Reproduced historical photograph of cowboys roping and branding cattle owned by the Marquis de Morès in a cattle pen at Beef Corral Bottom, originally taken in the 1880s.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Reproduced historical photograph of a cowboy branding a cow owned by the Marquis de Morès in a cattle pen at Beef Corral Bottom, originally taken in the 1880s.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Reproduced historical photograph of a cowboy on horseback roping cattle owned by the Marquis de Morès, originally taken in the 1880s.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Photograph of cowboys leading the Griffin cattle drive next to the Little Missouri River near the southern boundary of the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1966-11-22
Reproduced historical photograph of cowboys branding cattle owned by the Marquis de Morès, originally taken in the 1880s.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Cowboys leading the Griffin cattle drive near the Little Missouri River along the park road in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1966-11-21
Photograph of cowboys leading the Griffin cattle drive along the Little Missouri River bottom, heading toward Peaceful Valley Ranch, in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1966-11-21
Photograph of cowboys leading the Griffin cattle drive along the Little Missouri River bottom, with Big Plateau in the background, in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1966-11-21
Photograph of the Griffin cattle drive entering the Little Missouri River bottom near the mouth of Jones Creek with in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1966-11-21
Photograph of ranch hands branding a calf during a round up at the Maltese Cross Ranch located several miles south of the town of Medora, North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1958-06
Photograph of ranch hands branding a calf during a round up at the Maltese Cross Ranch located several miles south of the town of Medora, North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1958-06
Photograph of ranch hands branding a calf during a round up at the Maltese Cross Ranch located several miles south of the town of Medora, North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1958-06
Charles A. Peabody, president of Mutual Life, and Alexander E. Orr, president of New York Life, play poker with Samuel Untermeyer. Each is holding a handful of “Proxies” in one hand and a pistol in the other. Caption: A quiet game of freeze-out in life insurance gulch.
In the aftermath of the lengthy, detailed, and juicy investigations into the insurance industry in 1905, undertaken by the New York State Assembly and eventually managed by attorney Charles Evans Hughes, the practices of Big Insurance in America were a hot topic, and would be for years to come.
No insurance executive or any of the surprising numbers and names of politicians in unholy alliances ever went to jail. However, many insurance executives resigned their management and board positions and many careers were ruined.
Six cowboys, one labeled “Coal Trust” and another labeled “Miner’s Union,” all carry handguns which they are using to force a diminutive man labeled “Small Consumer” to dance.
In the cliched situation of uncountable cowboy tales, where the greenhorn is made to “dance” as bullies fire at his feet, the cartoonist’s iconic Little Man — labelled here “Small Consumer” — jumps for his life. Cartoonist Udo J. Keppler addresses no specific bill but rather general situation of the trusts’ control of many aspects of everyday life.
Photograph of a 1937 oil painting of two hunters on horseback chasing a herd of American bison through a grassy field.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1966-03
President Roosevelt appears as a cowboy, on horseback, with Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma, on foot, driving cattle labeled “High Protectionist, Senatorial Pledge Breaker, [and] Beet Sugar Senator” into the “Reciprocity Corral.”
The specific context of this cartoon, and the reference to “reciprocity,” is the question of America’s policy regarding sugar, Cuba’s chief export commodity. There were expectations after the Spanish-American War among Cuba’s leaders and provisional government, Cuban sugar growers, the American sugar trust, American sugar-beet growers, and various senators representing conflicting interests. Those expectations and hopes were settled by the Platt Amendment and decisions of President Roosevelt that granted free trade of Cuban cane sugar (no or low import duties imposed by the United States — virtual reciprocity, not that Cuba needed beet sugar) offset by Cuban guarantees of other American commodities and foreign-trade concessions. Cuban President Tomás Palma, once an advocate of annexation, backed this compromise. It sometimes is difficult to remember that Puck was a Democratic journal when reviewing such noble depictions and caricatures as in this cartoon of Roosevelt. Alternatively, of course, history remembers the public’s approval and the popularity of Roosevelt at the time. Noted, also, another phrase of Roosevelt’s that entered the language: the cartoon’s caption “A Strenuous Job.”
In a country courtroom, a judge pronounces a verdict based on the testimony of a cowboy standing in front of the clerk’s desk. Caption: Rube Roundup — Yes, your Honor, I admit I shot the tenderfoot, but he asked me to play a game of “ping-pong” with him. / Lead Gulch Justice — Discriminatin’ sarcumstances. When he gets out o’ the hospittle I’ll see thet you get the justice of his commitment. Next case.
As happens with society’s fads and fancies, something of momentary obsession attracts the attention — and, usually, the wit and sarcasm — of cartoonists. Puck in 1902 just did not seem able to embrace the fad of that new indoor game, ping pong.