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A local hunter appears in the foreground, and a visiting hunter from the city in the background asks the local if there is good shooting in the area. The local replies that it depends on who is doing it. Caption: Citiman — There is good shooting around her, isn’t there? / Native — Sure! – Of course it depends on who does it!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-11-20
Advertising card for Allen & Ginter Richmond Straight Cut Cigarettes from the 1880s. Card features hunting equipment and a scarlet ibis with a list of game birds on the verso.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1880-1890
Theodore Roosevelt praises his son Archie for “the twenty-shot chicken” and notes that the meat gets bruised if you shoot birds on their body. He asks if Archie will be able to visit him and his mother at the Grand Canyon. He should ask his headmaster, H. D. Evans, if he can be allowed to go. Roosevelt is excited to visit his son at school and hopes they will have a chance to take a ten or fifteen mile ride into the desert.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-07
It appears that President Roosevelt will be unable to join the prairie chicken hunting trip, but Ted Roosevelt is still interested in attending.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-01
William T. Hornaday writes to inform Theodore Roosevelt of his opposition to the proposed lease of Stinking Lake, New Mexico, to a sportsman’s club looking to “turn the finest wild-fowl bredding ground in New Mexico into a duck “preserve.”” Hornaday believes that Stinking lake should be designated as a national bird preserve.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-12-10
William T. Hornaday will support E. H. Grubb’s scheme for Stinking Lake if Grubb can secure the approval of the New Mexico Game Protective Association. In a handwritten postscript, Hornaday celebrates the New York Board of Education’s dismissal of three “disloyal teachers.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-12-20
William T. Hornaday telegrams Theodore Roosevelt to advise that Iowa state game warden Elmer Calvin Hinshaw is fighting against bills to give Iowa prairie chickens and quail five year close seasons. It has been reported in the press that Roosevelt is supporting Hinshaw.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-03-15
William T. Hornaday writes to Theodore Roosevelt to advise that Iowa state game warden Elmer Calvin Hinshaw is fighting against bills to give Iowa prairie chickens and quail five year close seasons. It has been reported in the press that Roosevelt is supporting Hinshaw on account of Roosevelt being a member of the Advisory Board of the American Game Protective and Propagation Association.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-03-16
Frederic T. Lewis tells Theodore Roosevelt that the Massachusetts legislature is attempting to allow the shooting of certain ducks and geese from January until April 15. In 1909, a bill was passed prohibiting the shooting of all ducks and geese from January 1 through September 15. Lewis would like a statement from Roosevelt against the modified bill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-10
William Eleroy Curtis describes the origination and various iterations of the bird story, comparing the process to the game of “Gossip.” What began as a story of Theodore Roosevelt shooting birds in Africa as natural history specimens turned into him killing birds in Oyster Bay for “the mere lust of killing.” Hence, the newspaper article’s comment that a man who kills birds in nests for gratification will “not hesitate to disregard the rights of any one that stands in the way of his desires.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-12-01
Oscar Neumann tells Edward North Buxton that he will prepare a list of birds and provide other “hints” to make President Roosevelt’s hunting trip in Africa a scientific success. He discusses the birds in German East Africa and British East Africa, and says he will try to send a book on the subject.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-21
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
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association
Since Corinne Roosevelt had been writing so much, Theodore Roosevelt had not previously written to Edith Kermit Carow. Roosevelt has been enjoying the trip and killed several hundred birds with a shotgun his father gave him. He particularly enjoyed Egypt and camping in Syria.
1873-04-13
Hiram R. McCullough goes over the details of an upcoming prairie chicken hunting trip to South Dakota.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-30
Hiram R. McCullough would be pleased to host President Roosevelt on a prairie chicken hunt in South Dakota. He suggests they arrive on the hunting grounds by the morning of September 1, 1902.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-03