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Dakota Territory: A TRA Strenuous Life Adventure

Dakota Territory: A TRA Strenuous Life Adventure

Michael F. Moran chronicles the Strenuous Life Adventure trip to South Dakota, Wyoming, and North Dakota undertaken by members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) in September 2018. Moran notes the many sites connected to Theodore Roosevelt visited by the group, including Jewel Cave and Devils Tower National Monument, and Wind Cave and Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Moran provides details about the group’s visits to each of these sites along with its stop at Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Moran notes Roosevelt’s friendship with Seth Bullock and highlights Fritz R. Gordner’s climb of Devils Tower.

The text is supplemented with thirteen color photographs and is followed by a nine page photo gallery of fifty-four color photographs.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2019

The National Wildlife Refuge System, 1903-1978

The National Wildlife Refuge System, 1903-1978

Two paragraph excerpt from Paul Russell Cutright’s Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist that describes President Theodore Roosevelt’s decision to establish the Pelican Island bird refuge in Florida along with a number of other bird reservations from 1903 to 1909. The Cutright excerpt is followed by two paragraphs that describe Roosevelt’s creation of national parks and monuments and closes with a quotation on conservation from his A Book-Lover’s Holiday in the Open.

 

A picture of Roosevelt examining a bird egg along with two unidentified men at a federal bird reservation in 1915 accompanies the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal