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Edward L. Burlingame praises Kermit Roosevelt’s article about mountain sheep hunting. He informs Theodore Roosevelt that they will happily publish it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-20
John Pitcher will let President Roosevelt know when he arrives in Washington, D.C., and hopes he will take a hunt at Yellowstone National Park in the fall of 1905.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-19
Theodore Roosevelt recalls meeting “Whistling John” Willis when Willis had lost everything in a fire. He congratulates Willis on making his “way up” in life and compares Willis’s youth in the West to the Vikings. Roosevelt intends to visit the Panama Exposition and would be pleased to stop in Glasgow, Montana, to see Willis. He agrees that cattle country is turning into farming country and is glad that Willis is interested in protecting the mountain sheep and blacktail (mule) deer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-22
President Roosevelt does not recall hearing of a white goat in the Little Missouri Badlands and would be surprised if one was found there. He thanks Myron Francis Westover for the account of a Montana hunt, which he will read with great interest.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-29
President Roosevelt requests another set of photographs including the mountain sheep photograph. The Roosevelts visited John Burroughs at Slabsides and had a “delightful time.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-13
Governor Roosevelt writes to Governor Thomas of Colorado on behalf of the New York Zoological Society, which wishes to ship a number of animals from Colorado to New York. The animals will be put in the society’s zoological park. Roosevelt hopes that this will be permitted.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1899-09-23
United States Representative William E. Humphrey of Washington recently donated several stuffed and mounted mountain sheep to the University of Washington. Humphrey hunted the sheep during a recent trip to Mexico.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-08-11
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
Major Pitcher assures President Roosevelt that Yellowstone National Park can supply elk to the New Zealand government if the National Zoological Park does not have enough. He updates Roosevelt on the status of various animals at Yellowstone and offers to arrange a hunt near the park for Roosevelt. He assures Roosevelt that he has the support of the local people.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-20
George Bird Grinnell is pleased with President Roosevelt’s article on Yellowstone Park. He will use the photographs Roosevelt provided and be cautious about the remarks regarding the mountain sheep’s range. Grinnell encloses an article with a reference to Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-12
Series of photographs from Charles Jesse Jones. The photographs show wood bison calves feeding, two men posing in the snow, a group of mountain sheep, and a large animal skin.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-02