President and Mrs. Taft leaving the Capitol to head the parade to the White House [March 4, 1909]

Keeping step to fife and drum. Inaugural parade, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1909

No use kicking - cowboys saddling a wild horse, Roosevelt Day, Cheyenne, Wyo.

President Roosevelt's western tour - visiting Liberty Gap, Yellowstone Nat. Park

President Roosevelt's western tour - Edgemont, S. D. Rough Riders

Rough Riding by the Black Hills Pioneers - cheering President Roosevelt - Edgemont, S.D.

Beautiful Salt Lake City receives an honored guest - arrival of President Roosevelt

Chief magistrates of nation and of state - Pres. Roosevelt and Gov. Wells, of Utah, at Salt Lake

President Roosevelt's western tour - Crawford (Neb.) 10th Cavalry

Tenth U.S. Cavalry greeting their chief - attending President Roosevelt's train at Crawford, Nebraska

New Mexico's appeal for statehood - greeting President Roosevelt at Albuquerque

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot?" - Pres. Roosevelt and his friends in Town Hall, Medora, N.D.

Northern gateway to Yellowstone Park - scene at corner-stone laying by President Roosevelt, Gardiner

President Roosevelt's western tour - a speech at the entrance to Yellowstone Nat. Park

President Roosevelt's western tour - an audience of school children, Salina, Kansas

President Roosevelt's visit to Salina, Kansas - looking from the stand over the crowd

President Roosevelt on a Santa Fe engine, before reaching Redlands, Cal.

A bouquet for President Roosevelt from a wee daughter of California at Mojave

"A man who is worth his salt will work" - President Roosevelt at Dunsmuir, Cal.

"American scholarship - capacity to do good original work" - President Roosevelt at Claremont, Cal.

The flower covered engine drawing President Roosevelt's special train, Santa Cruz, Cal.

Long may it thrive! - President Roosevelt plants a tree near San Jose, Cal.

The nation's chief before the forest king - President Roosevelt in Big Tree Grove, Santa Cruz, California

President Roosevelt amid "Nature's Wonders" - driving through Wawona, Big Trees of California

President Roosevelt amid "Nature's Wonders" - driving through Wawona, Big Trees of California

President Roosevelt amid "Nature's Wonders" - driving through Wawona, Big Trees of California

Theodore Roosevelt and his distinguished party, before the "Grizley Giant," big trees of California

President Roosevelt and party at the Old Mission of the Franciscan Fathers, Santa Barbara, Cal.

Theodore Roosevelt and party at the Old Mission of the Franciscan Fathers, Santa Barbara, California

President Roosevelt in academic robe addressing students and citizens at Berkeley, California