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Albert Stevenson has heard that Theodore Roosevelt is planning a trip to Arizona. Stevenson requests that Andrew Carnegie recommend to Roosevelt a visit to the Petrified Forest. In an added note to Roosevelt, Carnegie recommends a visit.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-30
John Muir enjoyed showing John Burroughs the Petrified Forest and Grand Canyon in Arizona. He also hopes to guide him through Yosemite National Park. Muir tells Theodore Roosevelt that the country seems lonesome since Roosevelt left Washington.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-03-11
John Burroughs is starting for California and will not see Theodore Roosevelt before his long African hunt. John Muir will meet Burroughs in Arizona and go with him to the Petrified Forest and the Grand Canyon. Burroughs looks forward to the natural history notes that Roosevelt will bring back with him from Africa and congratulates Roosevelt on his recent speech in Kentucky, which he says contains many “noteworthy passages.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-20
Draft proposal for the Department of the Interior to designate 28,335 acres of land in Theodore Roosevelt National Park as wilderness. The proposal includes maps of the area, background information on the proposal, the land, and the ecological situation there.
1972-09-18
Photograph of a petrified tree stump in the badlands north of the Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the North Unit (SP-7) of the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, a North Unit (SP-7) Civilian Conservation Corps foreman, in 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
Photograph of petrified tree area at the end of the park road looking east in the northern unit of the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area (SP-7) in western 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
1936-1937
Photograph of petrified tree stumps north of the Civilian Conservation Corps. camp in the northern unit of the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area in western 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
1937