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John Burroughs expounds on his recent travels. People have been very interested in his trip to Yellowstone with President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-05
Gifford Pinchot offers suggestions for speeches that President Roosevelt could give prior to his arrival in Yellowstone. He will also send additional suggestions for speeches to be given after Roosevelt leaves the park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-30
William Loeb informs President Roosevelt that Fargo, North Dakota, will be the most convenient place for John Burroughs to join the president on his way to Yellowstone Park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-10
John Burroughs responds to President Roosevelt’s letter regarding Burroughs’s Atlantic Monthly article. He admits to “hasty streaks” and comments on specific issues involving the tameness of birds and animals on uninhabited islands and the instinctive and learned fears among animals. He hopes to accompany Roosevelt to Yellowstone in the spring.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-10
Edward North Buxton congratulates President Roosevelt on his upcoming trip to the West and wishes that he had been able to accompany him. Buxton thanks Roosevelt for the useful information procured for him from Major John Pitcher regarding Yellowstone National Park. He hopes to visit the park when he travels to the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-17
John Pitcher has received four of the eight lion hunting dogs shipped by Mr. Poole and found them to be untrained. Pitcher is losing confidence in Poole’s ability to provide trained dogs and asks President Roosevelt to contact John B. Goff so that he can bring his dogs in case Poole’s dogs prove unsatisfactory.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-21
John Pitcher reviews plans for President Roosevelt’s visit to Yellowstone. The mountain lion population needs thinning and the hounds are set to arrive soon. He requests confirmation of Roosevelt’s visit so that arrangements can be completed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-02
Major Pitcher encloses documents for President Roosevelt and Edward North Buxton relating to the wildlife in Yellowstone National Park and the game laws in surrounding states. Extending the park to include the winter migration is currently before Congress.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-18
Theodore Roosevelt sends Edward North Buxton a note of introduction on behalf of Buxton’s daughter to the superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. Roosevelt discusses Queen Victoria’s Coronation and a Congressman’s wedding he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt attended at the Old Friends Meeting House, Stuyvesant Square, New York. Roosevelt is content to be “out of active life,” maintaining the home, pursuing leisure activities, and working on the Outlook. Roosevelt writes that eldest son, Ted Roosevelt, is happily married and Roosevelt expects to be a grandfather within the month. Roosevelt wishes to see Alfred and Lady Pease as well as Frederick and Mrs. Selous.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-24
Archibald Rogers reviews his recent hunting trip with John B. Goff in Colorado, and would like to discuss his ideas for game conservation with President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-21
Chester L. Brooks writes to Ethel Roosevelt Derby regarding a family trip to the West and provides fly fishing suggestions.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-06-23
Acting Chief Historian of the National Park Service Kahler forwards a letter written by Carl Parcher Russell of Yosemite National Park regarding Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-02-17
Carl Parcher Russell writes to Don Russell regarding a manuscript from Charles Marble, also known as “Buckskin Charley”, who was a wilderness guide for Theodore Roosevelt. Russell mentions an article in The Westerners Brand Book.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-02-09
Lemuel A. Garrison writes to Carl Parcher Russell regarding Charles Marble’s manuscript Fifty Years in and around Yellowstone National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1959-06-01
Charles Marble writes about an 1886 hunting trip with Theodore Roosevelt. Marble discussing camping, hunting and Roosevelt shooting his first bear.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Charles Marble, also known as “Buckskin Charlie,” chronicles his life at Yellowstone Park, including a hunting trip with Theodore Roosevelt in 1886.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1932-02-06