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William H. Fleming reports to President Roosevelt that he has received the promised copy of Rough Riders from Charles Scribner’s Sons. Fleming also encloses clippings of an editorial he wrote as well as other newspaper materials.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-29
William H. H. Llewellyn writes President Roosevelt and assures him that he will have the support and the votes of his former regiment in the upcoming election. Llewellyn also mentions meeting with George B. Cortelyou and discussing the “Colorado & Nevada matters.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-23
Former Rough Rider Reginald Ronalds believes it would be best for Alfred R. Conkling to ignore the article in The Tribune that says that Ronalds will most likely vote for Judge Parker. Ronalds notes that he has always voted for the Republican ticket and can not be convinced to take his vote away from the “old colonel,” who is worshiped by Ronalds and all of the old “regiment family.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-25
Albert Shaw informs President Roosevelt that he is sending a new set of the Statesman Edition, as printed by The American Monthly. Roosevelt’s war record is included as Appendix E in the volume concerning the Rough Riders.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-31
George L. Bugbee, a former Rough Rider, will be visiting New York and would like to stop by for a personal visit to reminisce with President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-30
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1892 to December 1898. Notable events include the death of Elliott Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt is appointed New York City Police Commissioner, his tenure as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the Spanish-American War, and Roosevelt’s gubernatorial campaign.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Colorized postcard of the Rough Rider Monument in a park in Prescott, Arizona. The monument features the likeness of William Owen O’Neill riding a horse. Two individuals are sitting on a bench behind the monument and a few buildings in the town are visible in the background.
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Postcard showing the Buckey O’Neill Monument in Prescott, Arizona. The monument, also known as the Rough Riders Monument, features William Owen O’Neill on a horse.
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Postcard showing the Buckey O’Neill Monument in Prescott, Arizona. The monument, also known as the Rough Riders Monument, features William Owen O’Neill on a horse. The name “Dep [?] John Spring” is handwritten on the reverse of the postcard.
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Colorized postcard showing the Buckey O’Neill Monument in Prescott, Arizona. The monument features William Owen O’Neill on a horse. A message on the reverse notes the monument is also in memory of the Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and praises Prescott.
1909-04-09
This exhaustively illustrated account of the Spanish-American war seeks to present the official history of the war according to the United States War Records Office. It encompasses the events leading up to the war, the war itself, as well as its resolution and aftermath. While it mentions the various engagements taking place during the war, most of the focus is on Cuba and the action of the United States Navy and Army in fighting Spanish forces there in support of Cuban rebels. It additionally includes general information on the theaters of war, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
1900
James M. Strock reviews Jon Knokey’s Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership and praises it for its treatment of Theodore Roosevelt’s leadership of the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War. Strock notes that the book traces the dual emergence of Roosevelt and the United States as leaders, and he commends the work for its treatment of Roosevelt’s early years. Strock concedes that much of what is covered in Knokey’s book is familiar, but he deems it worthwhile because of Knokey’s perspective as a younger scholar.
The front cover illustration of the book accompanies the text.
Footage of the second inaugural parade of President Roosevelt on March 4, 1905.
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
1944-04
Mark E. Episkopos asserts that Theodore Roosevelt resides at the center of Mark Lee Gardner’s Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill to such a degree “that it doubles as a partial biography of Roosevelt.” Episkopos highlights Gardner’s treatment of the unity of the Rough Riders, despite class differences between its cowboys and eastern college graduates, Roosevelt’s advocacy on behalf of his troopers after the war, and the various voices that tried to dismiss Roosevelt’s heroism in battle. A photograph and a painting of the Rough Riders and the front cover of the book illustrate the review.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2016
The front cover of this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal features a photograph of President George Bush and his wife Barbara Bush, winners of the 1998 Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal. The back cover has a photograph of some of the officers of the Rough Riders assembled to eat in San Antonio, Texas in 1898.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1999
Michele Bryant chronicles the ultimately doomed efforts of Katherine Augusta Wescott Tingley to transform the San Juan and Kettle Hill battlefields in Cuba into the Latin American headquarters for the Theosophical Society. Bryant notes that Tingley managed to buy the battlefield land and to erect two memorials, one an archway and the other a pillar, to Americans and Cubans who had died in the Spanish-American War. Bryant chronicles Tingley’s involvement with the Theosophical Society and her related charitable works, including establishing three schools in Cuba in the wake of the war, and she relates that Tingley’s planned development of the San Juan Heights property never was realized.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2013
A photograph of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders atop San Juan Hill in 1898 appears on the front cover of this issue while a photograph of members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association at the same location in 2012 appears on the back cover.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2012
To mark the centennial of the publication of Theodore Roosevelt’s autobiography, Tweed Roosevelt relates some of the anecdotes found in Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography. The essay quotes extensively from the autobiography in relaying stories about Theodore Roosevelt’s sparring with wrestlers and boxers, an anecdote about a former Rough Rider, and the love of books. A photograph of Tweed Roosevelt, a photograph of the front cover and spine of the autobiography, and a text box with the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association accompany the essay.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2013-11-06
Mark E. Episkopsos records his reaction to reading Theodore Roosevelt’s account of his service in the Spanish-American War, The Rough Riders. Episkopsos admits that he was relieved to find that Roosevelt’s memoir did not fit with other war memoirs that he had read which emphasized the author as a victim of events. Episkopsos asserts that in The Rough Riders Roosevelt stresses his agency and his actions in battle, and he commends Roosevelt for not downplaying the horrors of war and its toll on his soldiers. William N. Tilchin provides a introduction to the essay.
Three illustrations accompany the essay, including the cover of a recent edition of The Rough Riders and the iconic image of the Rough Riders atop the San Juan Heights in 1898.
Art Koch reveals the subject and context of the seventh “TR-era image” which shows rows of small tents arrayed on the San Juan Heights of Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Koch asks readers to identify a figure who was mistakenly identified as Theodore Roosevelt in a photograph in an article in the Fall 2010 issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal.