(Red Trail Campground, Medora, ND)
"I have always said I never would have been President if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota." Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt came to ND after the death of his wife, in childbirth, and his mother, typhoid, on the same day(1884).
He came to mourn and grieve and lose himself in the vastness of this area.
He was in SD for three years where he established a cattle ranch, which eventually failed. He returned to New York. He eventually became president of the US 1901-1909. He established the US Forest Service, signed the 1906 Antiquities Act which led to 18 national monuments. He worked with Congress to create five national parks, 150 national forests and dozens of federal reserves.
The Theodore Roosevelt National Park was not of his own creation. It became a national park in 1947.
Today we drove the 36-mile scenic loop through the southern unit of the park. There are bison, wild horses, prairie dogs, pronghorn, deer as well as badlands, hoo-doos, Little Missouri River bottom land.
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| Changing landscape of the National Park |
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| There is a hoo-doo in the center of the picture: a column of soil topped by a hard crust of soil or stone. |
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| More hoo-doo's |
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| What a pose from a member of the herd of wild horses. |
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| I really like the young grey horse. |
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| Gary, Evelyn Doug, Mildred, Marcella, Glen. Jeff was wandering around! |
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| More scenery. |
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| The buffalo were roaming! |
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| Posing for a Nickel! |
The weather is not at hot as yesterday! Evelyn and Mildred even started the day with a jacket--but that didn't last long!
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