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Circular relating to historic and prehistoric ruins of the American southwest and their preservation under the General Land Office of the Department of the Interior.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1904
Theodore Roosevelt views Robert S. Hartgrove as a “colored man who has caught the spirit of the movement” who has tried to inspire in the South. This is the only way that Roosevelt sees, and Julian LaRose Harris agrees, for African Americans to realize citizenship and full political rights.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-19
Theodore Roosevelt respectfully declines an invitation to visit St. Paul, Minnesota proposed by William F. Lewis. Roosevelt explains that since returning from his trip to Africa, he has had little time and has planned a visit to the Southern and Western United States for the summer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-31
President Roosevelt tells Representative McGuire that he named John P. Blackmon Indian Agent because he was recommended by people who were the “best competent to judge”. If Blackmon acts as an “offensive Democratic partisan,” he will be removed from the position. Roosevelt believes that positions such as Indian Agent should not be used as rewards for political service to a certain party.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-13
President Roosevelt would like Hamlin Garland to meet with Natalie Curtis Burlin regarding the Native Americans of the southwestern United States, particularly the “advisability of developing along its own lines their marked artistic talent.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-22
President Roosevelt would like George Bird Grinnell to meet with Natalie Curtis Burlin regarding the Native Americans of the southwestern United States, particularly the “advisability of developing along its own lines their marked artistic talent.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-22
President Roosevelt introduces Natalie Curtis Burlin who would like to investigate the artistic side of Native Americans in the southwestern United States. Roosevelt would like “every possible facility” given to Curtis and instructs Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock to consult with Hamlin Garland and George Bird Grinnell on Curtis’s ideas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-22
William T. Hornaday will support E. H. Grubb’s scheme for Stinking Lake if Grubb can secure the approval of the New Mexico Game Protective Association. In a handwritten postscript, Hornaday celebrates the New York Board of Education’s dismissal of three “disloyal teachers.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-12-20
Arthur C. Culver, Recording Secretary of of the Highland Lodge, No. 467 of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, invites Theodore Roosevelt to attend a “Grand Union Meeting of the Railway Brotherhoods” in the region, to take place in 1912. Culver asks for a few minutes of Roosevelt’s time when he passes through Albuquerque to meet with him and explain what the organization has in mind.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-04
George Haven Putnam is pleased to hear that President Roosevelt is still interested in completing the fifth volume of The Winning of the West. There is strong interest in the work, and Putnam notes it would be a breach of contract to not complete the book, unless Roosevelt faces some insurmountable obstacle. Putnam suggests a personal meeting with Roosevelt at his “piazza at Oyster Bay” where he might be less distracted by work than in Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-20
Reginald Ronalds wishes President Roosevelt a happy New Year and sends him a Ross rifle, from which he hopes Roosevelt will get much use. An invention created by his friend Charles Ross, the rifle has a trajectory that can use one sight for up to 300 yards. He sends wood powder ammunition, but hopes that if Roosevelt takes the rifle out West, he will get fresh ammunition.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-27
Quentin Roosevelt thanks Robert Harry Munro Ferguson for the book. He has failed to write to Isabella Ferguson with his impressions of the West but he would like to return next year. Roosevelt might work for John Greenway next summer and has plans for another trip to the Southwest.
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Theodore Roosevelt thanks Mr. Rivers for his campaign contribution of one dollar.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-15
United States Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson writes from Texas about efforts to educate cotton growers about boll weevil. Wilson relays that the Louisiana delegation in Congress opposes the Cuban treaty, but that businessmen and growers support President Roosevelt’s policies. Wilson also mentions African American civil rights in relation to the Republican Party.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-03
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock asks William H. Pope to consider an appointment as Special Inspector of the Department of the Interior for an investigation in the Southwest.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-25
Charles Fletcher Lummis updates President Roosevelt on the work of the Sequoya League and will be sending a copy of the preliminary report of the Warner’s Ranch Indian Commission.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08-05