At home in the saddle – Pres. Roosevelt on a 60 mile ride, Laramie to Cheyenne, Wyo.
President Roosevelt riding with other horseback riders
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1903-07-28
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Wyoming--Cheyenne
No use kicking – cowboys saddling a wild horse, Roosevelt Day, Cheyenne, Wyo.
Men look on as cowboys try to saddle a horse
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1903-07-28
The new woman in the new west – race with girl jockeys, Roosevelt Day, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Female jockey race on Roosevelt Day
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1903-07-28
Sports at Cheyenne, Wyo., Roosevelt Day – excitement of the steeplechase
Riders in a steeplechase as a crowd looks on
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1903-07-28
A bucking bronco showing off for the President – Roosevelt Day, Cheyenne, Wyoming
A bucking bronco as a crowd looks on
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1903-07-28
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Leslie E. Snow
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Deputy US Marshal Snow for the picture. He hopes there will be a celebration in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and remembers his visit the previous year.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-08-09
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Francis Emroy Warren
Theodore Roosevelt tells Senator Warren that it was kind of the Cheyenne Frontier Committee to extend an invitation for their show this year, but he must decline because of work pressures. He has written them to decline as well.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-06-30
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Edgar Borah
Theodore Roosevelt was sorry he could not see Senator Borah. He asks if Borah will be in Cheyenne or Denver later in the month.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1910-07-15
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to J. F. Schmitt and Daniel McUlvan
President Roosevelt thanks the citizens of Cheyenne for the “handsome saddle and bridle.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-06-01
Letter from Leslie E. Snow to Theodore Roosevelt
Deputy U. S. Marshal Leslie Snow sends Theodore Roosevelt “the best ever” photograph showing “a man being thrown clean.” Roosevelt will be missed at Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-08-03
Letter from Hiram R. McCullough to Theodore Roosevelt
Hiram R. McCullough shares his summer travel itinerary with Theodore Roosevelt. He invites Roosevelt and guests to accompany him if possible. McCullough does not need a reply until May 15.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02-20
Report from Judson C. Clements to Theodore Roosevelt
Judson C. Clements, acting chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, reports to President Roosevelt the principal facts established in its investigation of the Union Pacific Railroad. Upon interviewing competitors of the Union Pacific Coal Company, “every dollar of whose stock is owned by the Union Pacific Railroad Company,” the Commission finds that a monopoly on coal production and transport has been established in the area. Further, the Commission recommends remedial legislation as a result of its investigation.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-10-13
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge
President Roosevelt describes a 62-mile horse ride to Cheyenne, Wyoming, he took with Presley Marion Rixey, Senator Francis E. Warren, and Mr. Van Tassel, the owner of the ranch at which Roosevelt’s party ate lunch. After the ride, Roosevelt led a procession into Cheyenne and made a 45-minute speech at the city’s Memorial Day services. Roosevelt adds a post-script describing a second, 30-mile, horse ride to Warren’s ranch.
Collection
Massachusetts Historical Society
Creation Date
1903-05-31
Address of President Roosevelt at Cheyenne, Wyoming, May 30, 1903
President Roosevelt addresses an audience in Wyoming. He commends the state for the service of its citizens in the Civil War, and propounds the ideas that the war was fought over and the idea that all men are created equal. He also expounds on the idea that a man ought not to take the easiest of roads, but the rightest of roads.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-05-30
Remarks of President Roosevelt at Cheyenne, Wyoming, June 1, 1903
Theodore Roosevelt praises the people of Wyoming. If the need arises, the U.S. will have a “cavalry ready made.” Roosevelt is also happy with the gait of the horse that was given him.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-06-01