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As President Roosevelt has not heard what his son Ted wants done with the moose head, he asks Alexander Lambert to send the head and horns to Sagamore Hill without the scalp.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-24
President Roosevelt will write to his son Theodore Roosevelt about the moose horns, but thinks he will take them without the scalps. Alexander Lambert must have had an interesting time in New Mexico, Roosevelt guesses, even though he did not shoot a grizzly bear. He thinks that the bird Lambert heard was either a rock wren or a canyon wren.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-08
President Roosevelt tells his son Theodore Roosevelt that Dr. Alexander Lambert got the moose horns he wanted, but that mice ate the scalp. He advises Ted to take the horns without the scalp. He is glad that Ted went to see his brother Kermit Roosevelt at Groton. Kermit said that Ted was planning to visit Washington next weekend, and Roosevelt is concerned that this visit would interfere with Ted’s studies and football. He does not want Ted to miss out on a chance to play in the game against Yale.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-07
President Roosevelt returns a letter to Owen Wister. Roosevelt is worried about local fights in various states affecting his election. However, he is still managing to enjoy himself and writes that Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. killed a bull moose with a 56-inch horn spread, despite being only seventeen years old.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-08
President Roosevelt tells Stewart Edward White that he will be named a special inspector for the California Forest Reserve. He then comments on various hunting adventures. Ted Roosevelt went camping with a friend in the Canadian backwoods and killed a moose with a 56-inch horn spread. President Roosevelt was impressed with White’s description of a hunting trip where 105 pigs were killed in two weeks. He would like White to write a “really first class hunting book.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-08
President Roosevelt found the sketch and photographs interesting. Roosevelt gives his opinion on how moose, bears, and wolves fight.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-10
President Roosevelt believes that a bear can “kill a full grown bull elk” and that wolves will only attack a moose in large numbers. Roosevelt’s only hunting in recent years has been for mountain lions. He tries to stay active and spent several days chopping, walking, riding, and shooting with the new German Ambassador, Hermann Speck von Sternburg.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-10
Theodore Roosevelt tells George Bird Grinnell that the title of General A. W. Greely’s book is Three Years of Arctic Service. Roosevelt agrees with putting the moose head on the cover of the book and if Grinnell gets short of copy, Roosevelt can give him some writing. Another idea if they are short of copy is for Grinnell and Roosevelt to write a composite article on the distribution of “big game animals of temperate North America.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-08-03
George Bird Grinnell is glad that Theodore Roosevelt likes the book. Grinnell wants to hear Roosevelt’s moose story. He would like Roosevelt to come to lunch and meet with some friends and acquaintances, one who is a member of the Progressive Party.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-11-24
William R. Cross tells President Roosevelt about a new type of explosive bullet that he used to great effect on a moose during a recent hunting trip in Ontario.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-24
New York attorney and Republican politician James R. Sheffield writes to President Roosevelt regarding the latter’s book, The Pastimes of the American Hunter, and a hunting trip Sheffield and his wife took to Maine. Sheffield describes albino deer, bull moose, and a tame buck he encountered on his trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-15
St. George Littledale writes to President Roosevelt to describe a hunting trip to Alaska where he saw moose and bears and camped with Indians.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-05
Two political cartoons of Theodore Roosevelt from the summer of 1912 appear on the front and back covers of this issue. The front cover shows Roosevelt speaking from a hotel balcony in Chicago in June 1912 while the back cover cartoon depicts him as a bull moose.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1912
This edition of “News and Notes” opens with news of the History Channel’s production of another documentary film about Theodore Roosevelt. The report provides some details about its production and highlights members of the Roosevelt family who have roles in the film. “News and Notes” highlights the journey of “Bully” the moose from Alaska to Colorado to the USS Theodore Roosevelt; the trophy mount was acquired by members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). A posthumous award for Roosevelt from the United States Navy Memorial Foundation and a conservation roundtable sponsored by the TRA receive attention as do a number of personnel changes at Roosevelt related historic sites like Sagamore Hill.
The section promotes the TRA’s website, its Theodore Roosevelt CD-ROM, and the association’s next annual meeting. Two photographs from the production of the History Channel documentary and a photograph of Bully the moose with the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt appear in the section.
The Oregonian states that Theodore Roosevelt is in favor of Representative John F. Lacey’s bill to transfer “the management and control of forest reserves from the Interior to the Agricultural Department, and to create and maintain game preserves in the public land states.” The article concludes that Roosevelt will soon announce the addition of land that will double the area of Yellowstone Park and extend the Teton forest reserves in Wyoming in order to protect big game animals that live there.
1902-04-04
Sheet music for “Bull Moose Romp,” a march supporting Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party. The cover features an oval portrait of Roosevelt and illustrations of two moose.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1912
Sheet music for “Bull Moose March,” a campaign song for Theodore Roosevelt’s 1912 presidential campaign with the Progressive Party. The song is dedicated to Roosevelt. The cover features an illustration of a green moose head.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1912
Black and white postcard with an illustration of a bull moose galloping towards the White House. The postcard also includes a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, an illustration of the “T. R. hat” and the phrase, “My hat is still in the ring.” On the reverse of the postcard, Florence writes to her Grandfather that the “old moose can wag his tail now but after the election it will be dead.”
1911-1912
Sheet music for “The Brave Young Moose,” a 1912 Progressive Party campaign song. The cover features an illustration of a moose head in profile.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1912
Isabella Greenway encloses a check to pay for the shipping and storage charges accrued on a moose head being sent to Elliott Roosevelt.
1934-03-19