Away from the cares of state - President Roosevelt ready to enter Yellowstone Park

President Roosevelt and Major Pitcher before Liberty Cap - a long extinct geyser at Yellowstone Park

President Roosevelt and Major Pitcher before Liberty Cap - a long extinct geyser at Yellowstone Park

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