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Photograph of former Rough Riders standing on a platform during the 1949 park dedication ceremony in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park. Pictured (left to right): Theodore Roth (Mullen, NE), Frank L. Roberts (Breckenridge, TX), Bill McGinty (Ripley, OK), and George W. Wilkins (Phoenix, AZ).
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-06-04
Ed Bovein reminds Theodore Roosevelt that Edwin Emerson gave him several of Bovein’s rough sketches. He sends copies of The College World with his drawings accompanying some Western verse and hopes they are better than the sketches.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-07
Historian Don Rickey is searching for information on the uniforms, arms, and equipment of the Rough Riders. He would like to speak with Billy McGinty, former president of the Rough Rider Association, who lives outside of Oklahoma City. Rickey hopes that the Veterans Administration can provide McGinty’s address.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1957-02-20