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Newsletter from the Champlain Society detailing their history, membership fees, and publications, including volumes already published and works to be published.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01
President Roosevelt sympathizes with Joseph C. Underwood’s purpose and will use the speech as a basis for what he says on his upcoming trip down the Mississippi River Valley. Roosevelt does not want to harm the cattle industry.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-13
President Theodore Roosevelt [with Dr. Chapman and Mr. Stewart] on horseback, mountains in background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-07-10
Theodore Roosevelt agrees that the United States government should fund the building of tributaries along the Mississippi to ward against flood waters. Roosevelt resolves that the tributaries should be of the finest engineering, comparable to the engineering used in the building of the Panama Canal. Roosevelt draws a corollary between improving safety along the Mississippi to a political alliance between the Northern and Southern regions of the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-16
Theodore Roosevelt writes a letter to introduce his old friend D. M. Barringer to Ambassador Reid.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-19
Theodore Roosevelt has not hunted in the Rocky Mountains for many years and suggests George H. Warner write William T. Hornaday for advice.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-17
Theodore Roosevelt looks forward to an advance copy of Stanley Washburn’s new book on the Rocky Mountains in western Canada.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-20
President Roosevelt requests that the Army War College focus on better organization and training for army pack trains, insisting that there should be at least one full pack train with every squadron of cavalry. He suggests looking to the work of General Leonard Wood, Hugh Lenox Scott, and Henry W. Daly in the Philippines, and General Thomas Henry Barry in Cuba for examples of pack train organization.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-08
President Roosevelt wishes a happy New Year to the Portland Commercial Club, along with all of the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and the country.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-31
President Roosevelt returns a book to George Cabot Lodge, and comments that he thought it was interesting reading about the ancient cities that have been abandoned because of shifts in climate. He muses that it is interesting to consider “how long the process will go on and how rapidly, and what the effects on life will be, and whether or not there will be in subsequent ages a return to conditions of greater water precipitation.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-20
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 sends his greetings to the Rocky Mountain Harvard Club. He has always thought that the combination of Harvard and the Rocky Mountains was “mighty good.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-18
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt is glad that Frederick Courteney Selous enjoyed his hunting trip, but is melancholy to realize that the United States has lost so much of its hunting grounds. Roosevelt recalls a few of his own hunting experiences: “I was just in time to see the last of the real wilderness life and real wilderness hunting.” Roosevelt also recommends several books to Selous and provides information about his experience ranching in North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-11-30
Edward North Buxton’s greets Theodore Roosevelt and tells him that his daughter, Theresa Buxton, plans to be traveling in North America soon and would like to camp in Yellowstone National Park. He asks if Roosevelt might be able to write a letter of introduction to whoever the commandant of the park may currently be. Buxton and his family are recovering from the business of the recent coronation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-10
W. F. Bartlebaugh sends Theodore Roosevelt a poem he wrote about the Rocky Mountains after hearing him express appreciation for mountain scenery in his speech in Denver, Colorado.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-09
George H. Warner asks Theodore Roosevelt for advice on big game hunting in the Rocky Mountains.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-14
Congressman Andrews writes President Roosevelt’s secretary, William Loeb, in support of the president’s policy in New Mexico and believes that Governor George Curry should follow suit.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-09
President Roosevelt writes to Secretary Rodgers of the Arizona Statehood Association, encouraging the territory of Arizona to join the Union as a state. Roosevelt indicates that this may be the most expedient time for Arizona to join, particularly when it can join separately and not in conjunction with New Mexico. Nevertheless, the president indicates he will not attempt to coerce anyone, even those whom he provided with commissions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-27
W. F. Bartlebaugh describes, in a three-stanza poem, the beautiful scenery of the Rocky Mountains and their calming influence.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-09
Postcard poking fun at President Roosevelt’s enthusiasm for simplified spelling. Cartoon image of Roosevelt meeting with “Fatigued Ferdinand” on a hiking trail. A humorous conversation between the two takes place in simplified spelling with Ferdinand asking Roosevelt for a job. “Helena” is written in pencil on the reverse of the postcard. It is unclear whether this refers to a name or part of an address.
1906-1907