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President Roosevelt suggests that the Committee on Department Methods consider forming a subcommittee to deal with the issue of documentary historical publications of the United States government. Roosevelt suggests several names for the Committee to consider for service on this subcommittee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-11
Charles Richard Van Hise sends Theodore Roosevelt a syllabus of a speech he is giving at Harvard University. He wants to meet with Roosevelt while in New York. Van Hise suggests Roosevelt attend the conference during which, Charles McCarthy will propose an amendment to the Sherman act.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-09
Lowell E. Baier describes the importance of Theodore Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch to the formation of Roosevelt’s environmental awareness, and subsequently to the emergence of the nation’s conservation movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Baier provides a brief history of the conservation movement in the United States before Roosevelt’s emergence as its leader, and he argues that the conservation effort stemmed in part from the nation’s desire to preserve parts of its frontier past. Baier quotes Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris in emphasizing the importance of the Elkhorn to Roosevelt’s environmental beliefs, and he highlights efforts to secure the protection of lands directly across the Little Missouri River from the Elkhorn ranch house.
A photograph of Roosevelt with two of his ranch hands and three historic photographs of the Elkhorn Ranch buildings populate the essay along with two contemporary color photographs of the site. The essay also features illustrations of Roosevelt’s cattle brands, sketches of the Elkhorn ranch buildings by Frederic Remington, and a large map showing the various units of Theodore Roosevelt National Park and surrounding lands.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2007
Keith Carlson argues that Theodore Roosevelt’s four volume history The Winning of the West retains little value as a historical work and that its importance stems from the insights it grants into the “deeply held personal and political views” of its author. Carlson discusses Roosevelt’s commentary on William Jennings Bryan and Populism, his views on the treatment of Native Americans, and his relationship with the historian Frederick Jackson Turner. Carlson asserts that The Winning of the West is a valuable and under appreciated source of information about Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1994-1995
In this chapter excerpt from his book John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement, Stephen Fox examines efforts to expand Yosemite National Park, the battle between preservationists and conservationists over the use of forests, and provides portraits of John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, John Burroughs, and Theodore Roosevelt. He looks at the work undertaken by the conservation movement to preserve Niagara Falls, the redwood forests of California, and Mount Desert Island in Maine. Fox concludes the chapter with a look at the battle over the city of San Francisco’s desire to build a dam at the southern end of Hetch Hetchy valley in Yosemite National Park. In addition to looking at the life and work of Muir, the chapter provides information on many lesser known figures in the turn of the twentieth-century conservation movement.
A listing of the officers and the members of the executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association is found on the second page of the excerpt.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1981
Handwritten draft of chapter five from “The Indian Wars, 1784-1787” section of The Winning of the West.
1894