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A “White House” log cabin nestled in the woods has smoke coming out of it. There is a “wire to Washington via Fort Worth” just outside of the house as well as a sign that reads, “The new White House.” Several animals surround the house, including a stork. Caption: The stork: “At last the West has the White House—for a little while.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04-10
Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps staff and family at the “Oakdale” residence in the Killdeer Mountains of Dunn County, North Dakota. (Left to right) Weldon Gratton, Joe Naze, Don Fous, (white beard) Mr. Palmer. 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
Photograph of buildings at the “Oakdale” residence in the Killdeer Mountains in Dunn County, North Dakota. 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
Hugh “Bill” Hempel, Civilian Conservation Corps engineering foreman, walks in front of a log cabin at the McGregor Ranch. The ranch is located one mile east of the North Unit at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. 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
The photograph shows a log cabin from the McGregor Ranch located one mile east of the North Unit at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. 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
Photograph of a cabin once owned by Frank Steven being razed by controlled fire in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the winter of 1962.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1962
Photograph of an old building from the Tom Higgins Ranch being razed by fire in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1962
Photograph of a cabin once owned by Frank Steven after having been prepared to be razed by fire in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the winter of 1962.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1962
Photograph of a barn once owned by Frank Steven after having been prepared to be razed by fire in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the winter of 1962.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1962
The United States Department of Agriculture advises in this pamphlet how to protect and preserve wooden structures like the Maltese Cross cabin from harmful insects.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1939-02
Governor Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota provides information on the Maltese Cross cabin, including confirmation of its authenticity and dimensions.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1918-04-18
Elmore Y. Sarles answers questions about the Maltese Cross cabin sent to him by Dr. Volwiler. While Sarles does not know many of the answers, he directs Volwiler to several individuals who should.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1918-03-26
Sylvane M. Ferris provides to Dr. Albert T. Volwiler much of the information Volwiler requested about Theodore Roosevelt’s time ranching in North Dakota and specifically about the Maltese Cross Cabin.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1918-03-15
President Roosevelt standing just outside the doorway of a ranch house
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-09-12
Copy of an article written to argue for the authenticity of the Maltese Cross cabin. The cabin was to be exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and some question had arisen regarding its authenticity. This article includes notarized statements from Sylvane M. Ferris, Howard Eaton, and Joseph A. Ferris.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1904-03-19
Newspaper photo with caption of the Maltese Cross cabin being moved to Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park by a flatbed truck.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1959
Article discusses Theodore Roosevelt’s trip to western Dakota Territory to hunt and how he became a rancher. It continues on to highlight the construction of the Maltese Cross Ranch.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Unknown
Historian Ray H. Mattison requests information about the location of the Elkhorn Ranch site from Hermann Hagedorn.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-11-03
Theodore Roosevelt does not have any pictures of the Elkhorn Ranch to send to M. Schuezler. He destroyed photographs last summer. However, there are photographs of the ranch in his book Outdoor Pastimes. The house was a “regular log-house of the comfortable ranch type.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-07
President Roosevelt writes Robert Bridges regarding pictures of Pine Knot, the Roosevelt’s cabin in Virginia. The president had sent Bridges the pictures but would like them back, as they belong to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-03