Theodore Roosevelt and John Hance descending Bright Angel Trail
Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt and John Hance on mules descending Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon.
Collection
Creation Date
1911-03-17
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Theodore Roosevelt and group on mules descending Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon
Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, John Hance, Ida Tarbell, and the Colgate Party on mules descending Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon.
Collection
Creation Date
1911-03-17
Theodore Roosevelt and group on mules descending Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon
Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, John Hance, Ida Tarbell, and the Colgate Party on mules descending Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon.
Collection
Creation Date
1911-03-17
Theodore Roosevelt and group on mules descending Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon
Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, John Hance, Ida Tarbell, and the Colgate Party on mules descending Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon.
Collection
Creation Date
1911-03-17
Theodore Roosevelt and group on mules descending Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon
Postcard featuring a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, John Hance, Ida Tarbell, and the Colgate Party on mules descending Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon.
Collection
Creation Date
1911-03-17
Magazine article from The Saturday Evening Post
A fragment of an article on South America. Photographs of mules, and group photo of Anthony Fiala, George K. Cherrie, Father Zahn, Theodore Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, Frank Harper, and Leo E. Miller, and Roosevelt’s hunting party.
Collection
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Creation Date
1914-01
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Sir John L. Harrington
President Roosevelt thanks John L. Harrington for the letter, and says that he will need the animals and saddles in about a year. He asks, though, that Harrington write to F. R. Wingate, who will also be furnishing some mules and donkeys, as he does not want his two friends to be working at cross purposes. Roosevelt expects to take Harrington’s advice and begin shooting at Gambela.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1909-01-06
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Augustus Everett Willson
President Roosevelt is amused at the mule story and will see if the Tribune can publish Augustus Everett Willson’s article.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-10-03
Letter from John L. Harrington to Theodore Roosevelt
John L. Harrington tells President Roosevelt that whether any riding animals should be sent to the Upper Nile River depends on Roosevelt’s personal preference and where he hopes to begin shooting. Harrington can make the necessary arrangements regardless of what Roosevelt prefers. Harrington offers Roosevelt some advice regarding mosquitoes and mosquito tents, as they are very bad in the region Roosevelt will be traveling. He suggests that Roosevelt consider bringing a portable mosquito house that could be used both on the river steamer and on shore.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1909-01-04
Letter from Joseph A. Ferris to Theodore Roosevelt
Joseph A. Ferris informs President Roosevelt of the death of “Old Muley.” Ferris expected some of Roosevelt’s children here during their holidays, but will look for them next season.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-10-26
Col. Theodore Roosevelt at the Grand Canyon, Arizona talking to Capt. John Hance
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt on a mule while talking to Captain John Hance at the Grand Canyon. Likely taken during his 1911 trip.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1940-12-16
Col. Roosevelt’s party descending Bright Angel Trail
Theodore Roosevelt leads a group of men and women riding mules down the Bright Angel Trail, Grand Canyon, Arizona.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1911
The council at Esopus—The learned doctors and the ailing mule
A number of men stand around an ailing mule with two brands: “W. J. B. 1900” and “W. J. B. 1896.” Alton B. Parker tries to feed the mule “Parker golden corn” and ponders, “I wonder will he swallow this?” William Francis Sheehan has a telegram, August Belmont holds “clippers,” William Bourke Cockran has “ginger,” David B. Hill holds a “whip,” and Patrick Henry McCarren holds a “knife.” Henry Gassaway Davis comes running toward the mule and says, “I’ve got the remedy.” The train at the “Esopus Station” has smoke that reads, “from West Virginia.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-07-17
The grave of Quentin Roosevelt in France, and pack mules with ammunition on the Santiago Trail, Cuba
The film opens with a brief shot of several unidentified men on a boat before moving to scenes of American and French soldiers placing a new fence around the grave of Quentin Roosevelt along with a new headstone engraved in French. After a short break, the film then shows scenes of mules, loaded with boxes of ammunition, being driven along a trail, likely near Santiago, Cuba. About 12,000 mules were taken to Cuba and used primarily for transporting immediate reserves of small-arms ammunition during the Spanish-American War. Some of the men may be civilian mule skinners hired by the Army to handle the pack mules.
Collection
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
Creation Date
1898-1920