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Photograph of a wooden pit toilet being constructed along the Ridgeline Nature Trail in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1960
Photograph of the old east entrance station with park sign in the foreground in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1958-08
A list of the zoologists and sportsmen who donated a double elephant rifle to President Roosevelt in recognition of his services on behalf of national parks and forest reserves. There are about 56 names on the list.
1909
Photograph of the town of Medora, North Dakota, looking south-southeast from a development site near the South Unit visitors’ center in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1958
Photograph of the Little Missouri River and surrounding badlands in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-06-06
Theodore Roosevelt thoroughly believes in the Hawaiian national park and will help William Alanson Bryan if he has time.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-27
Theodore Roosevelt tells Charles McCarthy that he does not believe they can give up the Progressive Party, and joining the Republicans under William Barnes would be folly. Roosevelt believes Woodrow Wilson is the worst president since James Buchanan. He thinks the Progressives of Wisconsin are wrong to find fault with candidate George W. Perkins, whose work on the Palisades Interstate Park Commission was “the best practical experiment on the socialization of government…”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-08-26
Theodore Roosevelt informs Senator Lodge that the Camp Fire Club of America has “taken a very intelligent interest” in the proposed reserve of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Roosevelt asks that Lodge look at the enclosed papers and see if there is anything he can do to help them. Roosevelt is also writing to Senator Borah about the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-13
Theodore Roosevelt asks Senator Borah to help the Camp Fire Club of America by looking at paperwork concerning the suggested reserve of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-13
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of War Taft that General S. B. M. Young will become Superintendent of Yellowstone Park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-08
William Loeb encloses for Richard Lloyd Jones a statement from President Roosevelt regarding the movement to make Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace a national park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-26
President Roosevelt agrees with Major John Pitcher, Acting Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, that he should not let John B. Goff or anyone else take hunting parties into the park. Roosevelt feels that Goff is a good forest ranger and friend of conservation, but does not want Pitcher to do any special favors because of that. He will back Pitcher up, regardless of his decision.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-18
President Roosevelt thinks Hamlin Garland is performing a valuable service by agitating for a national park in Western Colorado, and will back it however he can. He is sorry if Paul Morton’s former place in his cabinet hurts his administration, but not because of anything Morton did–rather because of how people can be foolish and misled. Morton was one of Roosevelt’s best cabinet officers as Secretary of the Navy. Roosevelt also responds to criticism of Secretary of State Elihu Root’s career as a corporation lawyer, saying that that is the biggest business for lawyers, and that what matters is that they act properly and honorably as such. Former Attorney General and current Senator Philander C. Knox was also a corporation lawyer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-09
President Roosevelt shares with Robert Underwood Johnson, editor of The Century Magazine, his thoughts on California’s reaction to making Yosemite Valley a national park. It appears the primary objection is that the federal government “would protect it too well” from sheepmen and cattlemen.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-17
President Roosevelt is frustrated with Californians requesting statements on his policy and improvement plans for Yosemite, and says that “the matter must rest on the general proposition that we will treat it as we have treated the Yellowstone.” He asks Stewart Edward White to inquire what Joseph LeConte expects him to say.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-18
President Roosevelt informs John Burroughs that Yellowstone Park bears have been getting their paws stuck in tin cans from garbage heaps, and that Buffalo Jones has been trying to capture the bears to “cure” them. He says the White House is lovely, and red-headed woodpeckers are their most decorative birds.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-12
President Roosevelt informs Mr. Thompson that he does not think that hunting is necessary in Yellowstone Park, because natural predators such as mountain lions take care of overpopulation and do not pose much of a threat otherwise, unlike in Mammoth Hot Springs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-10
Colonel Young wishes the Boone and Crockett Club annual dinner could be held in Washington. Theodore Roosevelt thinks Yellowstone Park should be extended to the south.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-17
Theodore Roosevelt writes to George Bird Grinnell about the “forestry business.” Taking forests away from the settlers was part of an order issued by President Cleveland when he was at the end of his administration, and he agrees to cut Pierce’s article for Grinnell. Roosevelt also edited Grinnell’s statements about hunting stories. Roosevelt believes that “our scientific people” should care more about hunting. Roosevelt also wants Grinnell to add information about the destruction of the buffalo in Yellowstone Park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-08-24
Robert Lee Yokum asks Theodore Roosevelt for help in selling the late Scotty Philip’s herd of 300 bison, as there is not enough pasture for them. Yokum suggests dispersing the bison throughout the National Parks to aid in preserving the species. He reminds Roosevelt that he drove the team of buffalo at the celebrations in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-31