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A draft of “The Great Rainbow Natural Bridge,” written by Nicholas Roosevelt and copyrighted by Waldo M. Wedel. The manuscript includes photographs and journal entries by Roosevelt on this portion of his trip to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Throughout the manuscript are notes made by Wedel.
2010
Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, three Navajo men, and other members of Roosevelt’s party at camp near Rainbow Bridge. Several horses are in the background. Jesse Cummins is likely on the left of the photograph.
1913
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt and three other men from his party traveling with horses through slickrock country on the way to Rainbow Bridge.
1913
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt’s party on the way to Rainbow Bridge. Most of the party is on horseback riding away and up a rock outcrop. Two men are mounting up for the journey on the right. Roosevelt is likely in the center of the photograph on horseback, at the end of the line heading up the outcrop.
1913
Photograph of a pack train on a sandstone dune on the way to Rainbow Bridge. Several horses, a donkey, and a man are shown in the photograph.
1913
Photograph of a pack train crossing rock dunes on the way to the Rainbow Bridge. Theodore Roosevelt is visible in the middle of the group in a dark shirt and pants.
1913
Theodore Roosevelt’s pack train crosses a large rocky area on the way to Rainbow Bridge. Several men and horses are visible.
1913
Theodore Roosevelt’s pack train ascends a narrow rock cleft; starting down Rainbow Canyon from the east to Rainbow Bridge.
1913
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt lying on their stomachs, drinking water from a pool near Rainbow Bridge in Utah.
1913
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt leading his horse, Diablo, by the reins up a sandstone ridge on the way to Rainbow Bridge in Utah.
1913
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt, Jesse Cummins, and several horses in a camp near Rainbow Bridge in Utah. Cooking and camping gear is seen throughout the camp.
1913
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt standing at the base of a cliff close to his camp near Rainbow Bridge in Utah. Trees and foliage surround him.
1913