Hunting guides

John Milliken Parker has just returned from a country trip, and he spoke with Brutus Jackson, who has spent several months locating game for Parker’s hunt in the fall. Parker can guarantee President Roosevelt several kills and while the area is easily accessible by train, it is also very private. Parker and Collier hope to get some old dogs from some “Eastern packs,” so they will be able to alternate days. Parker hopes Roosevelt will be able to take some time off in November or December to join them for the hunt and some “much needed rest.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-15

In the “Book Notes” column, John A. Gable reviews Bully: An Adventure With Teddy Roosevelt which consists of the script of the play of the same name, complemented by eight pages of photographs. Gable quotes from a review of the play and from Theodore Roosevelt IV’s introduction to the book. Gable, as he did in the case of the play and film adaptation, praises the book and author Jerome Alden because he “does not tailor T.R. to fit current social or ideological fashions.”

 

Marvin R. Morrison reviews The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise which deals with the plight of the African elephant. Theodore Roosevelt’s hunting and his African safari of 1909 figure in the book and review. Morrison quotes Roosevelt, lists some of his fellow hunters, and argues that hunters are conservationists.  

 

In honor of President Roosevelt’s upcoming African safari, C. Bryson Taylor writes about the sights, conditions, hazards, and necessary supplies of a hunting trip in safari. Taylor details the guides, provisions, ammunition, and medicines travelers will need when embarking into the “dark and brooding heart” of Africa. Taylor also weaves in two fictional stories about previous hunting parties, which demonstrate the harshness of the expeditions.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-09

Vignettes depict man’s return to nature through scenes of hiking, hunting, and camping. Some scenes show a palatial “shack in the woods,” deer being groomed and fed on “The day before open season,” a woman camping with several of the comforts of home, and men hunting moose from an automobile.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-07-20

At center, Theodore Roosevelt appears as a rugged “guide for city sportsmen.” Surrounding scenes show Roosevelt as a “Pedagogue of Natural History,” an “Instructor in the manly art” of boxing, a coach for athletic sports, and a physician delivering triplets. Caption: A few of the things he can turn his hand to after leaving the presidency.

comments and context

Comments and Context

Many cartoonists drew many cartoons through the years depicting, or speculating upon, the multitude of activities that Theodore Roosevelt pursued. He was a polymath, expert and accomplished in many disparate fields. He was virtually hyperactive — strenuous, he would say — almost every minute of the day, so cartoonists had fun with imagining multitudes of activities.

John Avery McIlhenny discusses an upcoming hunting trip to Glasgow, Montana, with Alexander Lambert, and invites President Roosevelt to visit his family in Louisiana.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-05

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-08-25