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President Roosevelt confides in Cecil Andrew Lyon that he is “soft,” and unfamiliar with the terrain of their upcoming hunt, and is concerned it will poorly affect the outcome. Roosevelt thinks it would be better to have a successful hunt of peccaries than an unsuccessful bear hunt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-23
President Roosevelt tells Eugene F. Ware he plans to place the sonnet in his study since it has Ware’s signature. Roosevelt also tells Ware, “But alas! the distance between wolf and deer spans the life of the book as well as the life of perishable bronze and stone.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-03
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Henry N. Pancoast for the letter about wolves. He would be pleased if Pancoast could send the wolf skin for him to inspect.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-08
Theodore Roosevelt asks questions about wolf hunting of Henry Pancoast.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-02
President Roosevelt believes that a bear can “kill a full grown bull elk” and that wolves will only attack a moose in large numbers. Roosevelt’s only hunting in recent years has been for mountain lions. He tries to stay active and spent several days chopping, walking, riding, and shooting with the new German Ambassador, Hermann Speck von Sternburg.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-10
Theodore Roosevelt writes to C. Hart Merriam about the meaning of the word “species.” He feels the use of the word is simply a question of terminology. Roosevelt also recalls an argument between himself and Merriam about the connection between coyotes and wolves. Roosevelt also anticipates a delivery of lynx skins and skulls, as well as cougar skulls.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-04-08
Governor Roosevelt sends John Burroughs a copy of his book Big Game Hunting. Roosevelt specifically asks him to look at a description of birds, “Again and again as I have listened to those plains birds I have longed to have you hear them.” His son Ted will also be visiting Burroughs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1900-05-01
Theodore Roosevelt thinks the proof of George Bird Grinnell’s article is “one of the most interesting articles I have ever read” and thinks it offers a more descriptive narrative than a scientist, such as Schufeldt, could ever provide. Roosevelt does question Grinnell’s point about the wolves regarding the Indians as friends, since the Indians were killing many wolves for their furs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-08-30
Theodore Roosevelt would like to see the proof of his article on big game that he co-wrote with George Bird Grinnell. Roosevelt notes that the older he gets the less he cares about the actual killing, but does not want to get too sentimental. Roosevelt requests that Grinnell send him the wolf article, because he may have been confusing the wolf and the coyote.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-08-27
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt sends Frederik Courteney Selous maps of Montana and Wyoming to use on his upcoming hunting trip to the region around Yellowstone National Park. Roosevelt has marked these maps with the routes he believes he had taken when he hunted in the areas, but he is unsure of their accuracy. Roosevelt informs Selous of the areas where he successfully hunted various big game animals, such as elk, bighorn sheep, and wolves.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-05-18
In a letter to Henry Fairfield Osborn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt criticizes the taxonomical work of C. Hart Merriam. Roosevelt specifically notes Merriam’s taxonomical splitting of various groups of wapiti, wolves, and coyotes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-05-18
C. Hart Merriam thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the skin and skeleton of the dark-colored wolf from north of Quebec. This is the first skin from eastern Canada.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-01-19
Caspar Whitney, editor of the Outing Magazine, sends President Roosevelt the proofs for his upcoming article on nature fakers. He criticizes author and naturalist William J. Long’s supposed observations of wolf cubs. Whitney believes Roosevelt was right to attack Long as “one word from you will…reach every ear.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-16
C. Hart Merriam thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the wolf skull. Merriam will add the wolf skull to the national collection.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-18
Taxidermist William W. Hart updates President Roosevelt on the wolf rug. Hart can either replace the broken teeth in the current skull or replace the skull itself with another which he has on hand.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-09
William W. Hart tells President Roosevelt that the remounting job is complete and the heads have been re-hung at Sagamore Hill. Hart has enclosed bills for the work and discusses some of the details of the taxidermy labor and mentions other work that could be done. Hart looks forward to receiving more “fresh specimens” from Roosevelt to showcase his art.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-05
A family rides in a “labor G.O.P.” box on an elephant as a “hard times” wolf tries to reach them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-10
President Roosevelt thanks James A. Cruikshank for the letter and enclosures. He cannot grant Cruikshank permission to quote him, because if he gave him permission, he would have to grant all other such requests. Roosevelt has only done a little wolf hunting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-07
A wolf wearing a red cape labeled “Hard Times 1893” stands on a rock outside a gate labeled “U.S.” with Uncle Sam standing inside the gate and pointing a rifle labeled “Business Revival” at the wolf. Hanging on the wall of a building in the background are hides labeled “Hard Times 1819, Hard Times 1837, Hard Times 1857, [and] Hard Times 1873.” Columbia, carrying a rifle labeled “Prosperity,” is rushing to aid Uncle Sam. Caption: Uncle Sam (to the Wolf at the Door)–One of you pesky critters comes around here about every twenty years; but this is the gun that gits you!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-04-11
A man labeled “Dingley,” holding a smoking blunderbuss labeled “High Protective Tariff,” stands over a dead sheep labeled “Wool Industries.” He was aiming at a wolf labeled “Foreign Products” that is looking over the top of a fence.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-11-30