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Frederick Courteney Selous hopes that President Roosevelt received the copy of Colonel Swayne’s Through the Highlands of Siberia which Selous sent to him. Selous is also sending Roosevelt two issues of The Wide World Magazine, with accounts of the Tsavo man-eating lions written by Colonel J. H. Patterson, and several articles written by Selous.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-29
Hero Eugene Rensch reports that the explorer Captain George Vancouver wrote the most about the Pinnacles in 1794, and that they were relatively undocumented from that time until Harold W. Fairbanks wrote about them in the 1890s. After 1900, local newspapers and tourism booklets mentioned the Pinnacles “as unusual wonders of nature.” It was David Starr Jordan, the President of Stanford University, taking an interest in the Pinnacles which spurred President Theodore Roosevelt to create Pinnacles National Monument.
1936-02-07
Rowan Ward provides an invoice for several books Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt ordered, including The Far Interior: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure from the Cape of Good Hope Across the Zambesi to the Lake Regions of Central Africa by Walter Montagu Kerr, Camping in the Canadian Rockies: An Account of Camp Life in the Wilder Parts of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Together with a Description of the Region about Banff, Lake Louise and Glacier, and a Sketch of the Early Explorations by Walter Dwight Wilcox, and Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir: Being a Narrative of an Eight Months’ Trip in Baltistan and Ladak, and a Lady’s Experiences in the Latter Country: Together with Hints for the Guidance of Sportsmen by Henry Zouch Darrah.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-03-25