Environmental study area: Halliday Wells
Brief history and environmental study on the Halliday Wells area of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
Unknown
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Frontier and pioneer life
Interview with Lena Vanvig
Handwritten notes from an interview with Lena Vanvig. She describes her home and a community party.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1952-03-14
Interview–Judge Paul Lebo
Judge Lebo relates being told that on the frontier deer and beaver were often consumed.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1950-01-16
Memorandum from John W. Jay to George B. Hartzog
Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park has two recordings of frontier “old timers,” Benton C. Bird and George R. “Shy” Osterhout. The recordings are too fragile to mail but could be transcribed on tape. Superintendent Jay suggests contacting Harry F. Roberts, manager of the Chateau de Mores, who is knowledgeable of the early history of the badlands.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1960-07-26
Old range riders remember Roosevelt
Series of interviews by Park Historian Ray H. Mattison with pioneers of Billings County, North Dakota, who met Theodore Roosevelt during his time in the North Dakota badlands.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
Unknown
Excerpts from Ranching with Roosevelt
Series of excerpts from the book Ranching with Roosevelt by Lincoln A. Lang.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1926
The history corral
O. V. Lamb, former United States Marshal, compares the difference between television lawmen and reality.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1974-02-19
A historical study of Billings County, Dakota Territory
Historical facts and dates pertaining to Billings County, North Dakota.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
Unknown
Report on Billings County, North Dakota
Series of topics covering the history of Billings County, North Dakota.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
Unknown
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Louis B. Hanna
In accord with North Dakota Senator Hanna’s request, Theodore Roosevelt sat for sculptor Gustav Vigeland while he was in Oslo, Norway. However, Roosevelt still believes that the statue Hanna wishes to create should be of a cowboy or a pioneer farmer in order to better reflect the frontier days of North Dakota. Roosevelt believes that “no man should ever have a statue until he has been dead some little time.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1910-05-06
Introduction to James W. Foley’s The Voices of Song
Theodore Roosevelt recalls his time ranching in North Dakota and his acquaintance with Mr. Foley. He relates a story about run-away horses in which the poet played a part, confirming that Foley writes his “Western sketches” not out of books but from his own experiences.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1916
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frank Greene
Theodore Roosevelt is glad to learn more of the incident. Roosevelt also recalls an incident he described in his Autobiography where he knocked down a man with two guns.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-12-21
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Perkins
Theodore Roosevelt compares the international situation to the environment of some western communities thirty years ago. People who showed themselves helpless and unable to provide their own defense were inevitably taken advantage of. China has been in this position and because China could not fight effectively they have “had to fight again and again.” The Wilson administration has failed to show that the United States will defend itself and is being taken advantage of at sea and in Mexico. Roosevelt believes an aggressive foreign policy would have been much more likely to avoid a future war and that the country would be better off if he were president. Roosevelt compares President Wilson’s response to Germany to a man responding to his wife being slapped by writing notes.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1916-04-06
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Willis
Theodore Roosevelt recalls meeting “Whistling John” Willis when Willis had lost everything in a fire. He congratulates Willis on making his “way up” in life and compares Willis’s youth in the West to the Vikings. Roosevelt intends to visit the Panama Exposition and would be pleased to stop in Glasgow, Montana, to see Willis. He agrees that cattle country is turning into farming country and is glad that Willis is interested in protecting the mountain sheep and blacktail (mule) deer.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-02-22
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frederick Courteney Selous
Theodore Roosevelt feels that his writings will have the most usefulness in the United States. He has “contemptuous dislike” for the Wilson administration and is especially distressed at the handling of the European war and Mexico. Roosevelt regrets to hear that Frederick Courteney Selous’s troop of frontiersmen was not sent to the front. He approves of thorough training for soldiers but also believes that ordinary generals do not realize the possibilities of men like the frontiersmen, or Rough Riders, who can perform “very great feats.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1914-11-14
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to the stockmen of Wyoming
President Roosevelt sends his greetings to the stockmen of Wyoming and hopes to work with them to solve their problems. Roosevelt notes that “the law gives me no alternative” with regard to removing the fences around grazing lands, but he hopes to protect and promote the establishment of homes on public lands and asks that the members of the convention advise him on the best methods for regulating the use of public lands for grazing purposes.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-05-10
Letter from William Loeb to Julia Wyatt Bullard
Secretary to the President Loeb encloses the requested signed quotations from President Roosevelt. The quotations are on Roosevelt’s opinion of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and national memory of the Civil War more broadly, praise of white backwoodsmen’s use of guns and axes in North American western expansion and imperialism, ideal gender roles for men and women, and the need for national commitment to “the life of strenuous endeavor.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-03-09
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Chancy R. Barns
President Roosevelt informs Chancy R. Barns that he cannot leave his order unmodified. Congress will not properly fund the Land Office, so Roosevelt’s order must be modified to protect honest settlers who could otherwise be hurt alongside the fraudsters the order was meant to detect.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-02-14
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Francis E. Warren
President Roosevelt summarizes his position on federally controlled rangelands to Senator Warren. In Roosevelt’s view, government policy must work to protect the small rancher and homesteader, not the big sheep ranchers. The issue of fences illegally erected on public land is likely to be most divisive in the West. Unless Congress can protect the right of small ranchers to keep their fences on public land, Roosevelt will not support their legislation.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-02-11
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William F. Round
President Roosevelt does not want Round to publish the letter he wrote 18 years ago regarding Native Americans and the frontier. “Extraordinary changes” have made the content of the letter “wholly inapplicable.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-07-25