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Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna Roosevelt about happenings at the ranch and the recent trip to Yellowstone Park. Roosevelt has been doing some hunting but not getting much game. He expects to leave for home in about a week.
1890-10-04
Handwritten draft of chapter four of The Wilderness Hunter. The chapter was published as chapters four and five.
1893
Theodore Roosevelt sets a back-fire with the face of William H. Taft, to break the progress of a fire labeled “3rd Term” with the face of Roosevelt in the background.
Setting “back fires” when battling prairie fires, wildfires, or forest fires seems counter-intuitive at first, but robbing oncoming flames of their fuel is a tested, and frenzied, way to control blazes.