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Collection Summary
Collection: 00022H - Frank J. Hutchinson Photo Collection
Folder: 0010
Item: 00114
Title: Theodore Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch cabin
Date: ca. 1890
Creator: Barry, D. F.--(David Francis),--1854-1934
Inscription/Marks: On the back of the photo folder: Roosevelt Ranch near Medora, N. Dak.
Summary: Horses and a cart wait outside the cabin used by Theodore Roosevelt on the . Features of the Badlands are visible in the distance. The Elkhorn Ranch was established by Theodore Roosevelt on the Little Missouri River 35 miles north of Medora, North Dakota in the summer of 1884. Roosevelt hired Bill Sewall and Wilmot Dow, two Maine woodsmen, to run the ranch. Sewall and Dow built the ranch house, "a long, low house of logs," in the winter of 1884–1885.||
Red ID: PH_I_141935 Image ID: 102900 Image Notes: 00022-H-00114

Collection: 00022H Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank J. Hutchinson Photo Collection
Date: 1871-1890

Summary: Includes photographs captured by David F. Barry of Northern Plains Indians and other significant people, places, and events in Dakota Territory and the American West.

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