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Photograph showing President Theodore Roosevelt, John B. Goff, and other men on horseback with a pack of hunting dogs with mountains in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905
Ben Lilly describes his hunting adventures to Theodore Roosevelt, noting the names of mountains, valleys, rivers, and canyons in Mexico and New Mexico where he hunts and kills bears and lions. Lilly lists the measurements of the front and hind paws which he uses to track the bears. Lilly is planning to go to Alaska in April and asks if Roosevelt knows of a magazine or paper who would pay for Lilly’s expertise for hunting game in Mexico.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-05
John W. Osborn enjoyed seeing Theodore Roosevelt last March, but is disappoint Roosevelt will not join him for a bear hunt in November. Osborn hopes Kermit Roosevelt might come and that Roosevelt will also come. Osborn and his wife have had another little girl making four girls and two boys in his family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-01
President Roosevelt is interested in Percival Leonard Rosseau’s painting of hunting dogs and a panther, and wishes him success with his hunting pictures.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-19
John Jacobs, a buffalo hunter and polo pony trainer, has heard that President Roosevelt may come to San Antonio for a hunting trip. Jacobs has no political intentions but offers to supply Roosevelt with dogs and ponies simply to ensure he has a good time. He encloses letters of reference.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-03
The first vignette depicts President Roosevelt and his dogs marching into the canebrakes to find a bear. The second vignette shows a lot of downed trees and the sun high in the sky. The third vignette shows Roosevelt in his tent and a tired dog outside the tent with the moon in the background.
Cartoonist Ralph Wilder quotes a newspaper headline, or plausible rumor, about President Roosevelt’s hunting dogs being exhausted during the two-week tracking of black bears in the Louisiana canebrakes. In fact the bayous and canebrakes — tall and dense, rather like bamboo — and the boggy bayous were inhospitable to hunters and their hounds alike.
Jacob Edward Borah advertises his mountain lion, bobcat, wolf, and coyote hunts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906
Hunting dogs and a horse on a snowy hill
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-09-12
People riding at a trot.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-09-12
President Roosevelt and party horseback riding on a hunt
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-04-22
A bear cub clings to a tree as hunting dogs accost it around the tree root
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-09-12
Hunting dogs around foots of trees
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-09-12
A hunting dog with President Roosevelt, other hunters, and other hunting dogs in the background
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-09-12
President Roosevelt and other hunters before a hunting trip
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-04-22
President Roosevelt and other hunters before a hunting trip
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-04-22
President Roosevelt’s guide seated on a horse with several dogs lying on the ground around him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-12-31
Theodore Roosevelt found R. J. Cuninghame’s recent letter “extremely interesting” and was particularly amused at the Swedish scientists’ decision to leave the elephants alone. The description of elephant behavior was intriguing. He is glad the Holland rifle worked and hopes Cuninghame likes Stewart Edward White. Edmund Heller recently wrote about Paul James Rainey’s success hunting lions with dogs and sent his pamphlet about white rhinoceros. However, Roosevelt is irritated that Heller did not describe the giant eland specimens. Roosevelt sends his pamphlet on animal coloration and expresses concern about Leslie J. Tarlton’s and V. M. Newland’s health.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-11
Theodore Roosevelt sends Alfred E. Pease a pamphlet he wrote on protective coloration in animals, which he also sent to Frederick Courteney Selous, C. H. Stigand, and Edward North Buxton. “Homesick for the wilderness,” Kermit is out hunting in the Mexican desert and will soon finish his course at Harvard. Edmund Heller wrote Roosevelt about Paul James Rainey’s lion hunt using bear hounds. Unfortunately, Leslie J. Tarlton and V. M. Newland are in poor health. Roosevelt has “settled down into a perfectly quiet life” and does not “intend ever again to go away from Sagamore Hill.” He shares his recent rowing trip with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-15
Theodore Roosevelt did not use any hunting dogs during his trip to Africa. He refers William E. Evans to his book Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter for information about the dogs he used to hunt bears and panthers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-11
Although General Williams’s offer is tempting, President Roosevelt does not believe that Africa is a good place to use a dog for hunting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-17