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Index of President Roosevelt’s speeches from May 14 to June 1, 1903, during his tour to the Pacific Coast. Includes speeches in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and Nebraska.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-14
Index listing of President Roosevelt’s speeches made during his tour of the Pacific Coast in April of 1903.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903
Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park Superintendent Hanks informs National Park Service Regional Director Merriam that the park has compiled a list of people who should receive invitations to the dedication of the park. Hanks’s memorandum is two pages and the list of people is 40 pages.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-04-23
Matthew Stanley Quay relays that he recently met with A. J. Cassatt and writes of Native Americans in Wyoming, describing them as friendly allies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-02
Commissioner of Corporations Garfield encloses a memorandum regarding the Wyoming Oil Company and writes that Judge Ryan relayed that Judge Van Devanter has charge of the consolidated oil case. Garfield discusses the Ohio and New York election results. Garfield is traveling to the woods with Gifford Pinchot and sends his regards to Mrs. Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-04
Clippings from the Philadelphia Public Ledger includes stories about Herman Henry Kohlsaat’s visit to President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill for the third time in two months, where he spoke to the president about financial legislation – Kohlsaat claimed that his visit had no public significance and did not pertain to rumored changes in the Cabinet; Roosevelt plans to attend a memorial for New Jersey soldiers at the Antietam battlefield; Senator Nathan B. Scott spoke about Roosevelt’s upcoming presidential campaign, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., while visiting Seth Bullock in North Dakota, makes a bet with his father that he can beat the elder Roosevelt’s time riding from Laramie, Wyoming, to Cheyenne, that the president recorded the previous spring.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-24
Presley Marion Rixey assures President Roosevelt that he will not resign from his post as Surgeon General, and he hopes that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is enjoying her time in Wyoming.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-22
John B. Goff writes to Philip Battell Stewart regarding the logistics for a hunting trip. Goff describes the success of a recent hunting trip to Wyoming. He says that there is a need for the horses to be ready for the upcoming hunt and that air mattresses and sleeping bags are needed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-21
Caspar Whitney encloses a letter from the Governor, possibly DeForest Richards of Wyoming, but would not place much dependence on it. He believes the governor is “on the wrong side of the question.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-10
D. C. Nowlin has replaced Albert Nelson as State Game Warden of Wyoming. DeForest Richards views the appointment as a positive development that will stop the illegal killing of game in the state.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-05
C. Hart Merriam is pleased with the skulls and cat skins that Theodore Roosevelt sent. One of the skulls is the largest of the Felis concolor group that Merriam has ever seen. Roosevelt’s series of skulls from Colorado is “incomparably the largest, most complete, and most valuable series ever brought together.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-05-03
With Theodore Roosevelt’s assistance, C. Hart Merriam has been able to reach a conclusion regarding the bobcats of the southern Rocky Mountain region. Merriam was interested in seeing large skulls from Colorado to see if they match specimens from the Uinta Mountains. Merriam thanks Roosevelt for his contribution to the Biological Survey, and asks to keep some of the skulls. Merriam also responds to Roosevelt’s request for information about deer. Merriam has not been able to obtain a white-tailed deer specimen from any location in the far west.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-05-18
Frederick Courteney Selous recounts the results of several of his recent hunting trips to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt. Selous regrets that he will have to put off meeting Roosevelt in person slightly longer, as he has now been invited to attend the meeting of the British Association in Toronto, Canada, and will travel to the Rocky Mountains directly from there. He then plans to travel to the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming and hunt elk. Selous anticipates that he will be able to meet Roosevelt after his hunt, and looks forward to it. He thanks Roosevelt for the assistance he has already given in planning the trip, and requests that he send him a map.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-05-04
William Wells relays details of his recent hunt with Henry D. Shelden in Wyoming, where the pair caught a variety of game. Wells promises Henry S. Drinker that he will write him regarding stage lines as soon as Shelden’s visit is over.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-10-17
William Wells tells Henry S. Drinker about his successful first season running a hunting business and ranch in Wyoming. He writes that he believes the area will not always be the “game paradise it is now,” as more settlers are moving in. Wells invites Drinker and several others to come out to hunt with him, but says that if they want to get a sheep they should be prepared to shoot from a distance. If they come, Wells would meet them by the railroad and head into the good hunting country, which he describes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-11-04