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President Roosevelt wishes success to Harry Armitage Conant in his endeavor to erect a monument in honor of General George A. Custer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-16
Photograph of initials carved into a rock by a cavalry soldier under the command of Colonel George Armstrong Custer located several miles south of Medora, North Dakota in the Little Missouri National Grasslands.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-11-13
Photograph of initials carved into a rock by a cavalry soldier under the command of Colonel George Armstrong Custer located several miles south of Medora, North Dakota in the Little Missouri National Grasslands.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-11-13
Document includes a brief account of some of North Dakota’s notable people, and encourages visitors to the state to explore this history. (The item appears to have been part of North Dakota’s official state map, as a partial map of the state appeared on the back.)
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Historian Chester L. Brooks has received the copy of his book The Badlands to 1879. Brooks disagrees with some of Major Frank L. Anders’s findings regarding the Custer and Sully trails. He has been collecting 1880s photographs from “old timers.”
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-02-15
Handmade reproduction of a map of Custer Trail near Flat Top Butte. The map was originally created by Roy P. Johnson with information from Major Frank L. Anders.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-01-27
Dana Wright has obtained a “Johnson-Anders write up” of the Custer Trail of 1874 and disagrees with several aspects of the map. He also has microfilm of Sibley and Custer records but was unable to view it due to a malfunctioning microfilm viewer.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-01-28
Ray W. Lingk reviews errors in a historical presentation he attended about General Custer’s movements in western North Dakota and his Native American scouts.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-09-21
Report on the 1873 Yellowstone Expedition.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1873-08-09
President Roosevelt has read what Edward S. Curtis sent, and has never heard that three Crow scouts were with George A. Custer. Roosevelt notes that Curtis seems inclined to believe an unflattering theory about Custer’s actions, and cautions him that in writing about an event thirty years after it happened, memories can be faulty. He notes that it is not his or Curtis’s affair if irresponsible men publish the things he wrote about.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-08
President Roosevelt thanks Elizabeth Bacon Custer for her letter. Her late husband, George A. Custer, is one of his heroes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-27
President Roosevelt is pleased with the reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel’s picture of George Custer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-07
William Wiggin introduces himself to Theodore Roosevelt as the son of Judge Pierce L. Wiggin and a navy veteran. He is a postal clerk and is currently fifty dollars in debt due to the high cost of living and caring for his invalid wife. Concerned for his future independence, Wiggin asks if he can do something for Roosevelt to earn fifty dollars and start afresh.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-21
John C. Robison is greatly interested in Indians and has read many books on the subject in addition to Theodore Roosevelt’s works and asks for reading recommendations. His life would have been different had Roosevelt reappointed him as Indian Allotting Agent in 1904, but he understands that Roosevelt did his best with the given information.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-14
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1871 to December 1878. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s trip to Europe and Egypt, Roosevelt’s entrance to Harvard, the death of Theodore “Thee” Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s trip to Maine, and Roosevelt meeting Alice Hathaway Lee.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association
Grant Prince Marsh, a “lifelong navigator of western rivers,” requests President Roosevelt’s help to prevent a dam being built near Glendive, Montana. The dam is being built for a private company, the Water Users’ Association, and will prevent future navigation of the Yellowstone River.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
1907-11-21
Theodore Roosevelt’s copy of his speech at the semi-centennial celebration of Nebraska’s statehood. Roosevelt recalls America’s two wars up to the present, the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars, and says that they were good for the country because they established liberties for its citizens. He warns that World War I is threatening those liberties due to pacifists and a lack of military preparation by the United States. He calls for loyalty to America from its immigrant population and for voluntary service in the military and aid organizations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-06-14
Typed draft of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech at the semi-centennial celebration of Nebraska’s statehood. Roosevelt recalls America’s two wars up to the present, the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars, and says that they were good for the country because they established liberties for its citizens. He warns that World War I is threatening those liberties due to pacifists and a lack of military preparation by the United States. He calls for loyalty to America from its immigrant population and for voluntary service in the military and aid organizations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-06-14
Handwritten draft of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech given at the semi-centennial celebration of Nebraska’s statehood. Roosevelt recalls America’s two wars up to the present, the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars, and says that they were good for the country because they established liberties for its citizens. He warns that World War I is threatening those liberties due to pacifists and a lack of military preparation by the United States. He calls for loyalty to America from its immigrant population and for voluntary service in the military and aid organizations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-06-14
In this economic policy speech at the Cincinnati Music Hall, President Roosevelt begins by joking about how he messed up the opening music by requesting “Garryowen,” which the band apparently did not know how to play. Roosevelt argues that the trusts are a natural result of the prosperity brought by the Industrial Revolution and that we cannot pride ourselves on progress and prosperity while denouncing the men who made this possible. He compares the present situation to flood control; just as one can control the Mississippi River’s flooding but not prevent it, so too America cannot end corporations but can study and regulate them so that they can “subserve the public good.” Roosevelt urges calm, informed evolution on the issue of trusts, not rancorous revolution and asserts that the public’s objection to any corporation should be based on its conduct, not its size or wealth. He advocates for free trade, noting that the lifting of tariffs for trust-made goods would hurt smaller producers and wage workers more than the trusts. Since most trusts conduct interstate commerce, he recommends federal oversight, calling for legislative solutions and perhaps a constitutional amendment. He reminds the crowd that, as part of the executive branch, he is limited in his ability to stop the trusts alone. Roosevelt encourages the crowd not to “be made timid or daunted by the size of the problem” and concludes with the assertion that “all men, rich and poor alike, shall obey the law alike and receive its protection alike.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-20