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Theodore Roosevelt is sorry that he missed the annual meeting of the Boone and Crockett Club, but Edith Roosevelt had the grippe. Roosevelt would like to know when George Bird Grinnell will visit so that they can discuss A. G. Wallihan’s book and Yellowstone Park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-01-08
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with having the Boone and Crockett Club dinner in New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-20
Theodore Roosevelt would like to know when George Bird Grinnell will be visiting. Roosevelt will try and get Colonel Young and Grinnell to have dinner together.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-22
Colonel Young wishes the Boone and Crockett Club annual dinner could be held in Washington. Theodore Roosevelt thinks Yellowstone Park should be extended to the south.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-17
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt sends C. Grant La Farge an enclosure and thinks Colonel S. B. M. Young should be rushed through.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-09-10
Colonel S. B. M. Young has responded that he will gladly be a member of the Boone and Crockett Club. Theodore Roosevelt asks George Bird Grinnell if it is possible to go shooting in Maine or Canada this fall. Count Gustav Adolf von Gotzen would like to join them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-09-10
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs William L. Findley he does not personally know the current superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and cannot introduce Findley to him. Roosevelt believes he should be shown every courtesy even without a letter of introduction.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-08-10
Assistant Secretary of Navy Roosevelt forwards a letter from Arthur Erwin Brown to Secretary of War Alger. Roosevelt vouches for Brown’s credentials as director of the Philadelphia Zoological Park and member of the Boone and Crockett Club, and explains that he is interested in making sure Colonel S. B. M. Young retains his present position as Commandant of Yellowstone National Park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-07-01
Henry T. Allen sends Theodore Roosevelt a letter for file with the War Department and requests information regarding his relief from Yellowstone National Park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-09
Major Henry T. Allen sends Adjutant General of the United States Army, Fred C. Ainsworth, a statement of facts in connection with the relief of the Second Squadron, 8th Cavalry, from duty in Yellowstone National Park. Allen explains the history of how the squadron came to serve at Yellowstone, the conditions while they were there, and the generally how the squadron had been received. Allen quotes from several letters mentioning his conduct specifically, as well as that of the squadron, which commend the efforts of both.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-12
Alexander Lambert details his recent goat hunt in the mountains for President Roosevelt. Lambert has responded to Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield with his honest opinion about Yellowstone National Park. Although Lambert does not have legal evidence, he details William H. Wright’s observations on the military custodians and the diminishing bear population. Lambert inquires about scheduling for his visit, and will discuss the details further in person.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-29
In a memorandum requested by President Roosevelt, Secretary of War Taft outlines the reasons for the reversal of the Joint Board of the Army and Navy’s 1903 unanimous decision to construct a defensive naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines. The decision was reversed in 1907 due in part to the emerging strength of Japan and the cooling of relations with Japan, and to the indefensibility of the area by land.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-14
Major Allen praises the comments made by President Roosevelt about the army and the needs of the service in his message to Congress. He particularly approves of Roosevelt’s point that the army must be physically ready for battle, and that the standing army should be adequately staffed with trained soldiers to meet a crisis. He will be hunting mountain lions which have been notably scarce this year, and admires the “soldier’s temperament” of Yellowstone Park supervisor General S. B. M. Young, noting “West Point cannot give it.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-08
Four letters written by Theodore Roosevelt to President William McKinley from June to October 1898 about the war in Cuba. Two of the letters deal with the military campaign; one concerns the threat posed to U.S. troops by malaria; and in the last Roosevelt makes the case that he should be awarded the Medal of Honor.
A photograph of Roosevelt in his military uniform accompanies the letters.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1981
A man (possibly S. B. M Young) stands alongside several fish hanging from a rope with a sailing ship in the background.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-03
Secretary of War Taft submits the Army Chief of Staff’s recommendations for filling vacant brigadier-generalships. In addition to the submitted recommendations, Taft suggests Colonel Arthur L. Wagner and states he is one of the best strategists in the United States Army.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-30
Secretary of War Taft encloses a memorandum forwarded by Army Chief of Staff S. B. M. Young. Retired Brigadier General Aaron Simon Daggett had recommended that United States Army regulations should be changed to prohibit army chaplains from duty as counsel for enlisted men, exchange officers, and other positions. Taft recommends disregarding Daggett’s recommendations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-29
A handbook for Roosevelt’s Rough Rider Association, which includes a list of association officers, the association’s constitution and by-laws, and a list of the association’s members, honorary members, and the muster-out roll. Handwritten annotations about members or officers is present throughout. Pages 56-57 and 88-89 are uncut in the original and cannot be scanned.
1912
John Campbell Greenway describes his experiences enlisting for and serving in the Spanish-American War, including the events leading to the Battle of San Juan Hill.
1899-03-03
Photograph of President Roosevelt, General Young, and a group of Rough Riders at San Antonio.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-04-12