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Alexander Lambert sends President Roosevelt an editorial. Lambert notes that his father-in-law, Knight D. Cheney, is mending after a serious illness. Lambert has contacted William H. Wright, author of a recent article on elk, to plan a grizzly bear hunt.
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1907-03-17
President Roosevelt holding a gun faces a grizzly bear. In the background stands a wounded bull while in the foreground a teddy bear, also with a gun, reads a book entitled, “Hunting the Grizzly–T.R.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-20
Typed transcript of an article from the Bismarck Tribune. The Marquis de Morès has “wild cravings” for the hunt and intends to find and fight a grizzly bear with a knife.
1886-12-08
President Roosevelt received Frederick Courteney Selous’s letters, and the letter from R. J. Cunninghame. Roosevelt has directed Cunninghame to hire Leslie J. Tarlton, but he might reduce the expedition size later in the trip. It is becoming more expensive than he had anticipated. However, Roosevelt does not want to immediately disregard Cunninghame’s experience and advice. The end of his presidency is keeping Roosevelt very busy, and he looks forward to seeing Selous in April.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-07
President Roosevelt thinks that a quote from Voltaire that Judge Emory Speer sent him was extremely apt. He is both envious and admiring of Speer’s grizzly bear.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-14
President Roosevelt would like to know how Mr. Jones is employed at Yellowstone Park and is interested in hunting mountain lions when he visits the park. An enclosed letter from Frank Asbury Johnson requests permission to hunt a male grizzly in Yellowstone as a companion to the female grizzly recently donated by Johnson to the Field Columbian Museum.
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1902-12-17
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
George H. Warner asks Theodore Roosevelt for advice on big game hunting in the Rocky Mountains.
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1911-01-14
John B. Goff updates President Roosevelt on his hunting successes since arriving in Wyoming. He has caught several grizzlies and a mountain lion. He updates Roosevelt on hunting conditions and the status of various wildlife populations. He also tells Roosevelt about H. W. Thurston, the new Forest Supervisor, and invites Roosevelt to come hunt grizzly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-18
In a speech given shortly after Theodore Roosevelt’s death, George Haven Putnam discusses his friendship with Roosevelt, and he highlights aspects of his character, leadership ability, and episodes from his political career. Putnam details Roosevelt’s role in the 1884 presidential contest, his dispute with the Postmaster General during his time as a Civil Service Commissioner, and examines the effort to secure the election of Charles Evans Hughes as Governor of New York in 1908.
A photograph of Roosevelt in 1905 appears on the first page of the speech. A listing of the members of the executive committee of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) supplements the piece along with a text box with the heading ” A Membership Honor Roll” that lists members of the TRA who have enrolled in three premium membership categories.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1919-02-19
Handwritten draft that was published as chapters three and four of Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches.
1893
T. C. Coleman requests the name of the guide Vice President Roosevelt used in Colorado last fall. This spring, Coleman was in British Columbia and failed in his hunt for a grizzly bear. He hopes to use the guide’s dogs in another hunt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-25