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Photograph of an informational display entitled “Roosevelt’s Friends,” which discusses Theodore Roosevelt’s contemporaries during his time in the badlands; museum exhibit #26 in the South Unit visitor center of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-03-30
Typed transcript of an article that appeared in the Bismarck Tribune, describing how Medora, North Dakota, is settling into winter. Business is slow and many residents will spend the winter months elsewhere.
1886-11-23
A collection of articles relating to Medora and the Badlands that were published in The Bismarck Tribune.
1885-1886
James F. Vivian provides a look at Theodore Roosevelt’s time in the North Dakota Badlands with a collection of newspaper accounts, ranging from 1898 to 1915, drawn from interviews with Roosevelt’s friends, fellow ranchers, cowboys, and acquaintances. Vivian provides an introduction and an afterword to the article, as well as an introduction to each of its twelve sections. The accounts include reminiscences from the likes of William Sewall, Arthur T. Packard, and the brothers Sylvane Ferris and Joseph Ferris. Vivian contends that these interviews “corroborate the content and quality” of the work done by Hermann Hagedorn in his book Roosevelt in the Bad Lands.
Ten photographs appear in the article, including three of Roosevelt’s contemporaries, Frederick Herrig, James W. Foley, and Arthur T. Packard, along with two photographs of the museum dedicated to Roosevelt onboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. An illustration by Frederic Remington of Roosevelt’s capture of the boat thieves, and a text box with a listing of the members of the executive committee of the Theodore Roosevelt Association supplement the text.
The weather has been fair recently but previous “sharp weather” killed many cattle and “everybody is blue as a whetstone.” At least the losses should stop the big herds from Texas. Medora, Dakota Territory, is “very dead.” A. T. Packard lost everything in a fire and moved back east. The saloon also burnt down and Joseph A. Ferris’s store had a close call. Howard Eaton is glad that William Wingate Sewall is well and he wishes he could join Sewall for some “hunting, fishing, eating apples and drinking cider.”
State Historical Society of North Dakota
1887-02-26
The small town of Medora, North Dakota, once had aspirations of “becoming the metropolis of the western plains.” The first settlement in the area was Little Missouri, a former army cantonment that had been sold to the public. The Marquis de Morès founded Medora and eventually built a packing plant and hotel.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
Unknown
The cover and two articles from an edition of The Saturday Evening Post dedicated to President Roosevelt and published the month of his 1905 inauguration. The cover has an illustrated profile portrait of Roosevelt. The articles are “After Four Years: A Square Deal for Every Man,” by Owen Wister and “Roosevelt’s Ranching Days,” by A. T. Packard.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1905-03-04