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President Roosevelt requests Secretary of the Interior Garfield personally look into the matter of the highwayman in Yellowstone National Park and its implications on future policing of the park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-08
A poster advertising a $1,000.00 reward for the arrest and conviction of a man who held up and robbed the stagecoaches of the Yellowstone National Park Transportation Companies on 24 August 1908 near Keppler Cascades. There is a description of the man as well. This occurred while Eleanor Butler Alexander and her mother, Grace Green Alexander were on vacation in and around Yellowstone.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-08
Article describing the hold-up of seven stagecoaches in Yellowstone Park by one robber who secured $6,000.00. It occurred while Eleanor Butler Alexander and her mother, Grace Green Alexander, were on vacation in and around Yellowstone.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-08-24
A traveling couple is set upon by every member of the service industry – coachmen, porters, maids, messengers, busboys, and cooks – for some amount of remuneration. The cause is illustrated in the upper right, where the manager of the hotel tells his staff to extract payment from the guests in lieu of wages. The “hold-up” of a stagecoach takes place in the background on the upper left. Caption: In olden days the highwayman did the job himself; nowadays he directs his minions to do it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-07-03
Knowing the Yellowstone stagecoach robberies will be highly publicized, Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park S. B. M. Young wants President Roosevelt to hear the details from him. Young enumerates the events preceding and following the robberies, including the park’s soldiers’ failure to respond. Young cannot remain superintendent where his authority is ignored, and he is powerless to enforce rules. He fears for the park’s welfare if it is continued to be used as a military reservation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-07
A group of highwaymen labeled “Trust, Express Company, [and] Protected Monopoly” rob a stagecoach labeled “The Consumers’ Coach.” The driver, labeled “Congress,” is throwing them a pouch labeled “U.S. Parcels Post.” Caption: What else do you expect when the driver is in league with the highwaymen?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-07-19