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Emily Tyler Carow thanks Theodore Roosevelt for sending her The Outlook each week, she always looks forward to it arriving. She went walking on a glacier yesterday and appreciates the air in Switzerland.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-03
Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps South Unit project superintendent Mike Hoyt (L) and project clerk Joe Naze (R) hiking to the top of 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
President Roosevelt and some unsuspecting and unprepared friends go for “a little walk in Rock Creek Park.” Roosevelt enjoyed rock climbing and referred to it as “scrambling.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-1908
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit to discuss the first volume of Phineas Finn and list some recent guests at the White House who went hiking. He says the “political pot” is heating up over his rate bill and mentions that the Republican leaders have betrayed him.
1906-04-01
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit he is happy with Kermit’s marks and is very interested in the books he is reading. Roosevelt wants to know if he would be interested in Flashlights in the Jungle, but adds in a postscript that Edith said Kermit would not enjoy it. He also talks of taking a scramble down Rock Creek with C. Grant La Farge, Douglas Robinson, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon, and the French Ambassador.
1906-01-21
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna about hiking and camping in Maine. He describes some of the problems they have encountered as well as some of the more enjoyable parts of the trip.
1879-09-14
Theodore Roosevelt gives details about the current adventure he is on in Maine to his sister Anna. He includes information about the people that are on the trip with him, including cousin Emlen Roosevelt. He mentions that he is surprisingly stronger than the other two men, the flies are really bad, and he has lost one of his shoes.
1879-09-04
Photograph of visitors taking a guided hike with Ranger Lindon A. Wood at a prairie dog town near Peaceful Valley Ranch in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1966-07-25
Photograph of Farm Bureau employees and family taking a guided hike with Ranger Gilbert along a nature trail in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1964-06-14
Photograph of visitors on a guided hike with Ranger Sorenson in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-1970
Photograph of visitors on a guided hike with Ranger Sorenson at the junction of Wind Canyon and Coal Vein Road in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-1970
Photograph of Farm Bureau employees and family preparing for a guided hike with Ranger Homer L. Rouse along the Long X Nature Trail in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1961-06-11
President Roosevelt thought the letter Fitzhugh Lee sent to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was very interesting. He is pleased that the French officers are accepting Lee, and believes it is because of Lee’s willingness to work hard and do his duty. Roosevelt comments on a recent hike in Rock Creek Park he took with a number of Generals, and sends Lee some amusing pictures that were drawn afterwards of it. The Roosevelt family had a pleasant Christmas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-26
President Roosevelt finds fault with the shoe manufacturing company Potbury & Lee for the boots they have made, as they were much too small. Roosevelt will keep one pair for his son, Kermit Roosevelt, but has no use for the other and therefore returns it. He also sends Potbury & Lee a pair of shoes that he asks them to duplicate exactly. He admonishes them for making a mistake about the boots, as they have based them on a pair of his city shoes, which he does not wear with large socks.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-15
President Roosevelt congratulates his son Kermit on his grades. Roosevelt is sorry for Archie, as he tries very hard, but his grades are not very good. He describes a walk he recently took with Fitzhugh Lee, John McIlhenny, and Cecil Andrew Lyon. Douglas Robinson and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson are currently visiting and having a nice time. They are disappointed that Stewart Douglas Robinson has been expelled from Harvard.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-16
President Roosevelt passed along a letter from Kermit Roosevelt to Isabella. He teases his son, mentioning that he did not open the letter but expects a letter of his own from her soon. He updates Kermit on the weather and horse riding and rock climbing excursions he has taken with various visitors.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-15
Archibald B. Roosevelt is recovering well from his surgery and is excited to return to Groton. President Roosevelt was touched by the fondness Archie showed Kermit Roosevelt before and after the surgery. Roosevelt also tells Kermit about a walk he had taken with several friends in which they lost French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand in the woods and an enjoyably informal dinner with several hunters.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-08
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of State Root that French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand can extend his thanks to Roosevelt while playing tennis, or during any number of other physical activities the two undertake together. Roosevelt in turn will give his compliments to France, “and all of the necessary formalities will thereby have been accomplished.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-25
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Anna Roosevelt Cowles about initiating Paul Morton and Victor Howard Metcalf, new members of his Cabinet, with a scramble in Rock Creek Park. Roosevelt and Edith are having a “really lovely time in Washington.” They breakfast on the portico and walk in the garden. In Oyster Bay, Edith also reads Shakespeare’s King John out loud with Ethel and Ted. Roosevelt does not know what will happen in the election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-30
Theodore Roosevelt takes a “sour satisfaction” in the failure of James Garfield’s “house-climbing feat,” because he likes to know that his friends are getting old also. Roosevelt also describes hiking, boating, picnicking, and camping with his family and friends.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-13