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The weather is very cold but William Wingate Sewall is doing well. The lumber is ready and they are still working on the ranch house. Sewall is happy that he will be working with Joe and Bill Rowe. The deer have been “shy and cunning” but they have had successful hunts and currently have three deer hanging in the yard.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
1884-12-19
William Wingate Sewall has been working on hewing the logs for the ranch house and it is going fairly well. They take one day each week to explore and also get their mail once a week. Sewall is unsure what he will do in the spring but he does not want to live in Dakota Territory for longer then necessary. He is safe but sees many drawbacks to living in the territory. Ranching in the Dakota Badlands is a new business and no one is sure if it will be profitable.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
1884-10-19
The season has been very wet in Dakota Territory and William Wingate Sewall thinks he will enjoy the winter more than the summer. He should not have to work very hard and there are plenty of deer to hunt. There is land available but Sewall is not sure if the average man can make it profitable. He is generally pleased with Fallback, his horse, though they have had their differences. Sewall’s employer, Theodore Roosevelt, is a “very fair fellow.”
State Historical Society of North Dakota
1884-09-14
Signed practicing certificate announcing that F. H. Register has applied and been admitted to the practice of law in the district courts of Dakota Territory.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
1883-11-27
Sally Flandrau Cutcheon does not wish to receive more letters from Charles Macomb Flandrau in the style of the last one. Cutcheon describes a story told to her by Joe Humphreys about some Native Americans in the Dakotas. She is attending the Women’s Congress to see Julia Ward Howe speak and recently visited her family.
1891-10-30
President Roosevelt greets a crowd in Sharon Springs. He remarks on the “splendid agricultural future, and the change in industrial development” in Kansas. He also thanks them for their welcome and states that he will spend Sunday with them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-02
President Roosevelt briefly greets a crowd in Oakley. He compares Kansas to the Dakotas and remarks on his pleasure at the “intellectual and spiritual progress” of the people.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-02
Kate Roberts Pelissier writes to Ray H. Mattison, historian at Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, to inquire if she can be of any help regarding questions about the history of the Medora area. Pelissier, whose mother was Margaret Roberts, a good friend of Theodore Roosevelt, gives a brief history of her family’s time in the North Dakota Badlands.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1948-12-14
Assemblyman Roosevelt encloses a letter that shows that the colonel intends to “knock all the dead wood out of the various companies.” Roosevelt is leaving for Dakota Territory tomorrow and will attend to the matter as soon as he returns.
1883-08-31
Theodore Roosevelt describes his hunting trip in Dakota Territory to his wife Alice. He describes traveling over the badlands with his guide Joseph A. Ferris, how the water made him sick, chasing a herd of bison, being charged by a wounded bull, and being awakened by wolves. He still has not killed a bison.
1883-09-14