Mountains

Ben Lilly describes his hunting adventures to Theodore Roosevelt, noting the names of mountains, valleys, rivers, and canyons in Mexico and New Mexico where he hunts and kills bears and lions. Lilly lists the measurements of the front and hind paws which he uses to track the bears. Lilly is planning to go to Alaska in April and asks if Roosevelt knows of a magazine or paper who would pay for Lilly’s expertise for hunting game in Mexico.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-05

Elmer E. Harriman wants to introduce a certain species of elk to his local mountains, but the state will not allow elk to be shipped out. Harriman hopes that Theodore Roosevelt can use his influence to obtain the rights to take elk from Yellowstone Park.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-06

A bear labeled “third term” climbs down a tree to get to President Roosevelt. On the side of a mountain are the words, “last term declaration.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

The vagaries of a rather undisciplined assortment of mounted clips and cartoons in the White House scrapbook occasionally included the work of artists who infrequently published political cartoons, did not sign their work, or whose anonymity in posterity was assured by scissors that excised signatures and newspaper names. This cartoon, yet another speculative cartoon about President Roosevelt and his pursuit by a relentless Third Term movement, is one such example — not of theme, but of paternity.

Theodore Roosevelt writes of his honeymoon with Alice Lee Roosevelt to his sister Anna. He describes climbing Mount Pilatus in Munich with two German students and confusing Saturday for Sunday. He has not had any trouble other than mistaking a cavalry officer for a railway porter.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1881-07-19

Justice, wearing a crown labeled “Law” and carrying a sword and scales, rides on the back of a snail, climbing a steep hill strewn with bolders labeled “Certificate of reasonable doubt, Appeals, Change of venue, Injunction, [and] Stays” toward the “Hall of Justice” at the top of the hill.

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Comments and Context

Puck Magazine and other reformist but conservative Democratic journals, in the run-up to the 1904 presidential campaign, continued to oppose William Jennings Bryan, but cast about for a national Democrat with gravitas and appeal in the mold of former president Grover Cleveland.

Photograph of a four-seat Cessna 305 airplane that crashed into a butte in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, killing Gilbert F. Peterson.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1967-06-10

Photograph of a four-seat Cessna 305 airplane that crashed into a butte in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, killing Gilbert F. Peterson.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1967-06-10

Photograph of Ranger Wintch surveying the wreckage of a four-seat Cessna 305 airplane that crashed into a butte in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, killing Gilbert F. Peterson.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1967-06-10

Photograph of Ranger Michael Ott Wintch surveying the wreckage of a four-seat Cessna 305 airplane that crashed into a butte in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, killing Gilbert F. Peterson.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1967-06-10

Quentin Roosevelt writes to his mother describing his adventures hunting and hiking in Colorado.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1915-08-18

President Roosevelt and fellow hunters each on horseback in the Rocky Mountains

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-06-23

President Roosevelt mounted on a horse

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-06-23

President Theodore Roosevelt on horseback, mountains in background.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-06-26

President Theodore Roosevelt [with Dr. Chapman and Mr. Stewart] on horseback, mountains in background.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

President Roosevelt and two other men starting on a bear hunt

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-04-22

President Roosevelt, holding rifle, while mounted on horse.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-04-22

President Roosevelt and party riding in a valley

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-06-21

President Roosevelt gesturing with his hat from his horse

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-06-24

President Roosevelt with two other men mounted on horses on a road

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-06-23

President Roosevelt and two other men mounted on horses before starting on a hunt

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-04-22