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North Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area job completion record for project #11 for fine grading near upper Cedar Canyon, including a job narrative, maps, and job allocation request form with a list of materials needed.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1937-06-11
North Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area job completion record for project #14 to conduct a grade line survey beyond Cedar Canyon, included is a job narrative, job completion information, and job allocation request form with a list of materials needed.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1937-08-20
North Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area job completion record for project #9 to work on one mile of park road above Cedar Canyon; included is a job narrative, job completion information, approval papers, and job allocation request form with a list of materials needed.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1938-05-20
President Roosevelt is glad to hear from Senator Warren that Wyoming is doing well and says the state will get a battleship when Congress provides one.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-12
President Roosevelt agrees with Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte that District Attorney of Wyoming Timothy F. Burke cannot be reappointed due to his lack of enthusiasm regarding laws against the illegal enclosure of public lands, and informs Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock of the situation. Roosevelt has contacted the senators of Wyoming to let them know that Burke will not be reappointed. Roosevelt feels there has been a breakdown within the Department of the Interior in making a successful case against Senator Francis E. Warren, which Roosevelt feels is a more serious case than Burke’s. Edward B. Linnen’s report can be completely discredited and therefore no action can be taken. Roosevelt suggests that a new examination be undertaken by another group of men.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-26
President Roosevelt tells Attorney General Bonaparte that Wyoming District Attorney Timothy F. Burke cannot be considered for reappointment based on reports from Milton Dwight Purdy and Alford Warriner Cooley. Burke’s term is almost up and Roosevelt feels that replacing him as soon as possible would be appropriate, but he would like Bonaparte’s advice.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-18
Anna Howard Shaw has heard about Theodore Roosevelt’s upcoming speech at Carnegie Hall on “The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood” and hopes he discusses the women’s suffrage movement in light of the growing list of states where women have gained the right to vote.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-14
Agnes Lackey invites Theodore Roosevelt to be a speaker at the March 1912 school teacher’s meeting if he is available.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-14
William G. Beach encloses information regarding elk in Wyoming and asks Theodore Roosevelt to make a statement regarding elk conservation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-18
Attorney General Bonaparte updates President Roosevelt on various matters before the Department of Justice, specifically pertaining to the cases of William Edgar Borah and N. M. Ruick. Bonaparte also goes into great detail about the case of the People of Puerto Rico vs. the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church in Puerto Rico. He encourages Roosevelt not to get involved but instead to let the courts work it out. In a postscript, Bonaparte discusses the political considerations of federal appointees who run for elective office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-15
Clement S. Ucker presents a sworn statement relating to the Union Pacific Coal Company’s case. Ucker attests that there were affidavits and statements enough to form a case showing a conspiracy to defraud the United States government. Additionally there were records restoring the coal lands to the public domain, but these were “allowed to remain dormant in the files” of the office while conspirators tried to acquire the lands.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-04
Benjamin F. Sparhawk of the General Land Office testifies in court as to certain “wrong and irregular” acts by colleagues in his department, including improper approvals of land lieu selections and favoritism in the selection and promotion of employees. Sparhawk particularly implicates John McPhaul, his division chief.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-19
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock writes President Roosevelt with his advice on the complicated matter of withdrawing coal lands. On Roosevelt’s direction, the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office began surveying and drafting a list of townships that contained rich coal lands with the intention of withdrawing them from homestead exemptions, and the Department is working quickly to wire all of Roosevelt’s orders to appropriate land offices around the country. However, it is apparent that oil industry men can use many loopholes to obtain the land.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-17
Gifford Pinchot offers conservation themed speaking points that President Roosevelt can use in Wyoming during his western trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-30
Article offers a brief history of cattle ranching in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1920-1960
President Roosevelt gesturing during a speech
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-28
President Roosevelt riding with other horseback riders
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-28
President Roosevelt preaching to a crowd
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-06-11
President Roosevelt mounted on a horse
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-28
President Roosevelt and Yellowstone’s superintendent Major John Pitcher on horseback at Liberty Cap in Wyoming.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-28