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Charles D. Bercaw tells R.W. Crowell that he and Edward Parker leased and managed a theater. He tells a humorous tale related to a show the theater put on called “Ships-a-Hoy” and a young boy who tried to sneak in without a ticket.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-10
President Roosevelt and his party conversing on the front porch of a house.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-10-31
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Andrew Carnegie, saying he would like to visit the petrified forest in Arizona but his schedule is full. He also says he believes Al Stevenson to be the one-armed man featured in General Wood’s stories.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-10
During his time in the Mojave Desert, Clarence E. Stoner made a bottle with stories from Theodore Roosevelt’s journey in Africa. He has enclosed the bottle for Roosevelt hoping it would “find a place” in Roosevelt’s “collections.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-23
Sarah C. Tuite grew up in the West and knew “all the early day terrors.” She needs financial help and asks Theodore Roosevelt for the names of people who would be interested in her stories as material for magazine publication.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-06
John Burroughs is sending President Roosevelt a copy of his Yellowstone Park article for the Atlantic. Some of the stories he hoped to tell have been excluded. However, he would like Roosevelt to review the several stories that are in the article to ensure that he approves of them. Burroughs also suggests that Mrs. Roosevelt read the article.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-15
John Burroughs has written up an account of his and President Roosevelt’s trip to Yellowstone for the Atlantic Monthly. He writes to ask for permission to include some of Roosevelt’s campfire stories.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-12
Philip J. Roosevelt delivers a eulogy at the funeral of his father, P. James Roosevelt, a former president of the Theodore Roosevelt Association. Roosevelt remarks on his father’s love of storytelling, sailing, and Fourth of July celebrations. Two photographs of P. James Roosevelt, including a full page one, accompany the eulogy.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1998-12-05
Kathleen Dalton explores “a little known side of” Theodore Roosevelt: his love of telling stories. Dalton identifies ghost stories, animal and hunting stories, tales from his days as a cowboy, and stories involving the Rough Riders as some of Roosevelt’s favorite topics. She also says that he liked to talk about his own adventures, such as hiking in Rock Creek Park, or discussing his political friends and foes, and she says that Roosevelt’s favorite audience for his stories was his children. Dalton identifies a number of people who were subjects of Roosevelt’s tales or who, like Rudyard Kipling, were captivated by listening to his stories.
Two photographs of Roosevelt, and an illustration of him telling a camp fire story to children, supplement the article which also has two text boxes with information about the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
John D. Rockefeller sits in a rocking chair and talks to a group of children–President Roosevelt, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, Ida M. Tarbell, Frank B. Kellogg, Thomas William Lawson, and a “muck rake” cat. A “Standard Oil” lamp lights the room. Caption: “Now, children, I’ll tell you the story of my life.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-20
Postcard featuring campfire scene of four bears with caption “and Teddy’s sure to get you if you don’t watch out.” Multiple sets of eyes lurk in the dark woods background. “I wonder if you are going to Uncle Percy’s to-day. Mamma.”
1906-12-19
Four satirical vignettes appear with captions under each. In the first, two women look at a newspaper headline about the pilot, Louis Paulhan. The second shows the handle of a sword on which a laughing peasant sits on the tail of a serpent; a head rises out of the top of the handle. In the third, President Roosevelt stands among a group of well-dressed men regaling them with stories of killing a hippopotamus in Africa. In the fourth, a playwright sits in the theater director’s office.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910
American soldiers sit around a campfire listening as one tells a story through verse of getting kissed by his girlfriend just before boarding the train. The poem is authored by Edwin L. Sabin.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-08-10