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A group of grizzly bears get together. Some read “Nature Stories” and newspapers while others hold up signs: ‘We have survived a presidential outing,’ ‘Is the pen more pointed than the gun,’ “Would we rather be shot up or written down,” and “When it doubt, butt in.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-16
Theodore Roosevelt overestimated the weight of the grizzly bear and explains this to J. Alden Loring.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-19
President Roosevelt will write to his son Theodore Roosevelt about the moose horns, but thinks he will take them without the scalps. Alexander Lambert must have had an interesting time in New Mexico, Roosevelt guesses, even though he did not shoot a grizzly bear. He thinks that the bird Lambert heard was either a rock wren or a canyon wren.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-08
John Burroughs was very interested to hear Buffalo Jones and the Yellowstone grizzly bears with tin cans stuck on their feet. If President Roosevelt has read any of his latest articles, Burroughs would be glad to receive his thoughts and criticism. Burroughs is considering buying a farm in the southern Catskill region and offers it as a place of rest for Roosevelt and his family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-15
President Roosevelt will find out what Philip Stewart’s plans are and warns not to “give that man the impression I want to knife a grizzly.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-21
President Roosevelt sends George Bird Grinnell the piece and the photographs. Roosevelt wants all of the photographs included in the piece. He emphasizes that grizzlies and black bears are shown in the photographs. Roosevelt urges Grinnell to be cautious in calling sheep animals of the plains, as this is a misrepresentation of the animal’s real character.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-27
Frank Ross McCoy reports on activities in Yosemite National Park, hoping to remind President Roosevelt of the “fine work and sport of the summertime.” John Muir, Joseph N. LeConte, and other members of the Sierra Club have said that the change in the valley has been very positive since it became part of the national park this year. The superintendent, Harry Coupland Benson, knows the park well and is popular with the Sierra Club. McCoy describes the park rangers and some encounters with grizzly bears, noting he found the instinct to shoot very strong but felt “stern duty’s restraining hand.” McCoy says Interior Secretary James R. Garfield came and went in a flurry, mentioning that he finds Roosevelt’s cabinet officers showing up everywhere to be “inspiring,” now that he has experienced it in the Philippines, Cuba, and the United States. McCoy offers his thoughts on race relations between the Californians and Japanese, as well as the attitudes of people on the West Coast regarding the Great White Fleet. McCoy regrets he cannot conduct Roosevelt and his family personally through the park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-07
In this edition of the “Book Reviews” section, Paul Russell Cutright and Philip J. Roosevelt provide separate but equally laudatory reviews of American Bears, a collection of writings about bears and bear hunting by Theodore Roosevelt edited by Paul Schullery. Kenneth D. Crews finds that Roosevelt plays a minor, but important, role in Carlton Jackson’s The Dreadful Month about the awful death toll in American coal mines in December 1907. John A. Gable examines Paul D. Casdorph’s Republicans, Negroes, and Progressives in the South, 1912-1916 and compares some its findings to his own work on the Progressive Party.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1983
Cutright, Paul Russell, 1897-1988; Roosevelt, Philip J.; Crews, Kenneth D.; Gable, John A.
President Roosevelt rides on a train that is full of items: “grizzly cub,” “petrified pumpkin from Dakota,” “redwood log from California,” and a barrel “from Colorado Springs.” The box of “ostrich eggs” falls off as they head “to Pittsburgh 10 miles.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-03
William Jennings Bryan blows a spit ball into a cage with two bears: President Roosevelt and William H. Taft. There are two signs on the cage: “Don’t tease the old bear. He’s ugly” and “Grizzly bear (Theodorus Roosevelticus). Habitat–District of Columbia. Almost extinct.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-01
Paul Morton informs President Roosevelt that he has talked to Lyons, who said that Roosevelt is about to try hunting in New Mexico. Morton offers to arrange a bear hunting trip in New Mexico and requests that the military transport to the Philippines remain based in San Francisco, rather than being moved to Seattle, unless it is in the best interests of the country.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-16