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President Roosevelt asks if Joseph A. Ferris and Sylvane M. Ferris could meet him in Bismarck or Mandan and ride to Medora with him.
Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation
1903-04-07
Photograph of restored blockhouse at Fort Mandan along the southern bank of the Missouri River near Mandan, North Dakota. Picture is part of a photograph collection in a binder kept by Chandler D. Fairbank, a foreman at the northern unit of the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area in western North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936
President Roosevelt addressing a crowd from atop a platform
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-18
Extract from the Bad Lands Cow Boy stating that Medora, North Dakota, has a larger freight, express and passenger business than Mandan, North Dakota, or Glendive, Montana.
1885-08-02
Typed transcript of an article from the Bismarck Tribune. The Marquis de Morès appeared in a Mandan court for his murder indictment and was taken into custody. A change of venue was granted and the trial will take place in Bismarck.
1885-09-01
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Colored postcard depicting a log cabin on the Chimney Butte Ranch in Medora, North Dakota, where Theodore Roosevelt lived from 1883-1884. The reverse reads: “Arrived 1pm. Sept. 14/09. Ma & Pa.”
1909
It is desirable to have some Native Americans available during the president’s visit. Their expenses will be defrayed.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
Unknown
The guns should reach Mandan, North Dakota, today or early tomorrow.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
1903-04
M. L. Parker is working to move the cannon to Mandan, North Dakota, by April 5. The people in Bismarck, North Dakota, will have to make arrangements to move the cannon from Mandan.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
1903-04-02
William Wingate Sewall describes the pursuit and capture of three thieves that stole a boat from Theodore Roosevelt. The boat, the best one on the Little Missouri River, had been purchased by Roosevelt in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and it was very useful. Sewall and Wilmot Dow built a new boat and they headed after the thieves a few days after the boat went missing. The thieves were captured without violence and Roosevelt accompanied them to Dickinson, Dakota Territory, for trial. Sewall and Dow continued down the river with the boats to Mandan, Dakota Territory, and then took a train back to Medora, Dakota Territory.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
1886-04-21
President Roosevelt greets a crowd at Mandan, North Dakota, and speaks of his previous time in the Dakotas. He congratulates them on the work done to the public schools and the “upbuilding of the social and intellectual life” in the state. He also attributes that success to character.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-07
Theodore Roosevelt reluctantly accepted the Republican nomination for mayor of New York, New York, after being “implored” by prominent Republicans. There is no chance for success and his best hope is for a decent run. An absurd aspect of the campaign will occur when Roosevelt’s article, “Machine Politics in New York City,” is published. He had “great fun” in the West over the summer, including killing three “White Antelope-goats” and bringing three cattle thieves into Mandan for trial.
1886-10-21