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Frank Greene was pleased to receive Theodore Roosevelt’s letter and confirms that Jack Tisdale was killed around twenty years ago. He reminisces about the old days in Little Missouri and relates several anecdotes. The local sentiment is that the United States should avoid a war with Germany.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
1916-01-13
Frank Greene was superintendent of the Northern Pacific Railway in western North Dakota and a Morton County representative to the North Dakota state legislature. During Theodore Roosevelt’s time in Medora, North Dakota, Greene met him on several occasions. Greene sent several items related to Roosevelt to Lewis F. Crawford of the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
1927-12-09
Commissioner Roosevelt summarizes his recent, and difficult, hunting trip with Hector Munro Ferguson. Sylvane M. Ferris is very ill and unable to assist with the cattle round-up apart from some overseeing. The cattle are looking well but prices are low. Roosevelt concludes by discussing several matters related to the ranch.
Arizona Historical Society
1892-08-11
The cabin in which Theodore Roosevelt lived three years as a ranchman, North Dakota products in foreground, World’s Fair, St. Louis.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
The cabin in which Theodore Roosevelt lived during his time in the North Dakota badlands, exhibited in the Agricultural Building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
This stereograph depicts Theodore Roosevelt’s cabin from his North Dakota ranching days on display at the St. Louis World’s Fair.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
This stereograph depicts Theodore Roosevelt’s log cabin from his North Dakota ranching days at the St. Louis World’s Fair.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
This stereograph depicts Theodore Roosevelt’s log cabin from his North Dakota ranching days on display at the St. Louis World’s Fair.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
President Roosevelt remarks on the spring weather in Wisconsin and compares it to his time in the Dakota area.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-03
President Roosevelt greets the community. He compares the spring weather in Wisconsin to that in the Dakota-Montana border area and his time following the cattle trains.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-03
Index listing of President Roosevelt’s speeches made during his tour of the Pacific Coast in April of 1903.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903
Performance of “North Dakota: Teddy Roosevelt’s west” by Beth Hurt, soprano; Tara Bohlen, violin; and Beverly Everett, piano. The violion obligato was arranged by Beverly Everett. The original sheet music was composed by Walter Edward De Lano and published in 1925 by Harold Flammer, Inc. The piece was featured by the Fletcher Brothers and the Frederick Hotel Orchestra in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Recorded at Makoche Recording Studios in Bismarck, North Dakota, with partial funding from the North Dakota Council on the Arts.
Piano score and lyrics celebrating the landscape and people of North Dakota. “Featured by Fletcher Bros., Frederick Hotel Orchestra, Grand Forks, No. Dak.”
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1925
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed visiting Corinne Roosevelt Robinson and her family. Roosevelt is attached to his ranch and feels that he is living in an “ideal hero land” that he finds powerfully appealing. He recently enjoyed the book On Both Sides.
1886-08-07
President Roosevelt congratulates the Irrigation Congress of North Dakota. He is pleased that his administration is connected with the irrigation movement in the West.
1901-1909
Photograph of a re-enactment of Theodore Roosevelt keeping watch over boat thieves he captured with the help of William Wingate Sewall and Wilmot Dow.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1886
Hand drawn map of the course of Sully Trail near Flat Top Butte in western North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-07-17
Gifford Pinchot offers conservation themed speaking points that President Roosevelt can use in North Dakota during his western trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-30
Bill of sale between President Roosevelt and Sylvane M. Ferris for Roosevelt’s 3 cattle brands registered in North Dakota and his cattle.
Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation
1902-04-07
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Sylvane M. Ferris for the work he did in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation
1912-03-25