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Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps staff and family having a picnic in the Killdeer Mountains of Dunn County, North Dakota. Photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps staff and family having a picnic in the Killdeer Mountains of Dunn County, North Dakota. Photographed: Joe Naze (kneeling), Mrs. Hoyt (white shirt), Don Fous (holding the pot), and Weldon Gratton (next to Fous). Photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1937-05-16
Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps staff and family at the “Oakdale” residence in the Killdeer Mountains of Dunn County, North Dakota. (Left to right) Weldon Gratton, Joe Naze, Don Fous, (white beard) Mr. Palmer. Photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
Civilian Conservation Corps accountant Ware (L) and South Unit landscape foreman Weldon Gratton (R) hold elk antlers during a trip to the Killdeer Mountains in Dunn County, North Dakota. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
The Civilian Conservation Corp job record #172 is in regard to an Emergency Relief Administration (ERA) project to install culverts outside the park boundary near the southern unit of the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area (SP-8) in western North Dakota. The project was converted from an ERA project to the Civilian Conservation Corps to construct culverts on behalf of Billings County, North Dakota. Administrative and job documentation attached.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1940-10-31
Interview with Weldon Gratton regarding his time as senior foreman at the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area and later as the area’s foreman of the Civilian Conservation Corps project.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1963-06
Paul L. Beaubien reports on a trip he made to Theodore Roosevelt National Park to try to ascertain where the Elkhorn Ranch had been. He and Ray H. Mattison were able to approximate the location closely by comparing the terrain with photographs taken of the area by Theodore Roosevelt in 1886. While there is no evidence remaining on the surface, Beaubien believes that excavation in the area may reveal artifacts. Beaubien also describes a number of other visits he made to sites in the area, and includes photographs of the Elkhorn Ranch site.
1950-08-25
Ray H. Mattison describes the methodology used to try to discover the exact location of Theodore Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch. Mattison includes a historical background of the ranch, from its original construction and occupation by Roosevelt, William Wingate Sewall and Wilmot S. Dow, through its later abandonment and deconstruction. The primary method used by Mattison to determine the site of the Elkhorn was through a comparative study of photographs between those taken by Roosevelt in 1886 and contemporary photographs Mattison took in 1949. Additionally, Mattison interviewed a number of “Old Timers,” who were familiar with the Elkhorn Ranch, and who were able to corroborate the conclusions he came to based on the photographs.
1950-01
List of primary Army and National Park Service personnel for Civilian Conservation Corps Camp 2767, stationed in Medora, North Dakota. Also included is a fairly detailed sketch of the camp area, scale is 1 inch to 96 feet.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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