Teddy Roosevelt's ranch
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- Опубліковано 3 січ 2015
- For future president Theodore Roosevelt, the year 1884 was a very bad year indeed; he lost both his mother and his wife in just a matter of hours. To soothe his soul, he headed to North Dakota, which is where Mo Rocca takes us on a visit to what was once the site of Roosevelt's fabled Elkhorn Ranch.
I can't even imagine the pain TR went through in February 1884. To lose his wife is painful enough, but to lose his mother as well...
Sadly he would be even more depressed today to see roads cutting through the national grasslands and oil wells ruining the landscape
did he leave his daughter behind in NYC?
abandoned new born daughter. typical man. nothing great here.
@@dafrasier1 He was Paralyzed with grief and felt he needed to escape it, Theodore’s sister Bami (or maybe it was Karin I don’t remember which one) took care of her in her early years but she did get to form a relationship with him latter, still never talked about his grief of losing her mother and grandmother with her though😔!
@@codent he did and apparently it would have a negative effect in their future. The girl who grew up to become Alice Roosevelt Longworth, shared her father's rebellious side and commented about how distant she felt from him and he in turn allegedly said, "I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice, I cannot possibly do both,"
Teddy Roosevelt's great-grandson speaks and sounds like Ernest Hemingway. Everything he says and describes is so vivid and majestic.
And as a token of the badassery running in their genes, the guy was a Navy Seal.
A great American and a great conservationist ahead of his time!
Today, Republicans would call him a snowflake and ask why he was "associating" himself with the natives.
Is it any wonder that his image was carved on Mt Rushmore.. his dedication to preserving the natural beauty of this country and his love for the great outdoors in general made him a natural choice.
I think that the documentary, "The Presidents," described TR down to a T, "(...) The Republicans' worst nightmare had come to pass. Theodore Roosevelt was no longer just a heartbeat from the presidency, he was the president. "TR" as he liked to be called, was complicated man, a mass of contradictions and he could not be bullied. He was a Conservative yet he fought for reforms. He was a hunter who started the conservation movement. A hawk on war who won the Nobel Peace Prize. Perhaps the only thing that can be easily understood about him is that he was an original."
He never identified himself by the party he stood for, but he fought for what he felt was right for the American people. It is a great lesson for presidents, present and future, when an individual is in the White House (which I found out recently was officially called as such by TR himself during his time in office) they don't so much represent their party as much as they represent the people of America. If someone can do that for the most amount of people in America, they're going to be a great President. If I had a pound for every time I heard someone in my country (the UK) accidentally referring to FDR on Mount Rushmore instead of TR, I'd be a millionaire, lol
@@SiVlog1989 I agree with you, very interesting viewpoint. Thanks for sharing.
We may not have had all of these wonderful places had it not been for Teddy Roosevelt.
TR always said that if he hadn't gone to Dakota, he would never have become President.
orbison Yes, Mo mentioned that at the end.
Amen.
If I hadn't bought a Harley I wouldn't have gone to Dakota.
If I hadn't gone to New York, I would never have lived in Idaho!!!
I visited the Elkhorn ranch. It is what you see here. Peaceful, quiet and beautiful. Go see it. You experience what Teddy experienced. Not that hard to get too. 40 miles of dirt road but good maintained roads. I loved too hearing the trees, birds and being in the middle of no where.
I live in ND and used to love Medora. Unfortunately, the explosion in tourism has ruined it. There is always a shortage of hotel rooms and campground space there. The Park Service has been increasing entrance fees to TRNP year after year (it used to be $5 in 2013, and it's now $20...at this rate it will be $50 within 5 years). The riff raff has invaded North Dakota :(
Those roads are paid for by oil money. The same oil money that this maker of the video is against. I think we can all live in harmony, I’m a rancher in western North Dakota and we are very close to this site.
@@BacktotheBasics101 Oil is not a long term solution. Tying an economy to one commodity, especially one that will almost certainly see decreased use in coming years, is a fatal one.
@@BacktotheBasics101 beautiful country for sure. ND is a very stress-free place to live. Spent five years there, and find myself missing it often.
@@BacktotheBasics101
We have a section just S of little Missouri River closer to Watford .
Cattle drives went by and through there.
Pleasure to meet ya.
As a native North Dakotan, I'm heart broken to see those oil rigs spoiling that beautiful country.
As an American, I agree.
Me too!
Teddy was against oil and coal mining, realizing it was dirty and destructive.
@David Erickson Well, Teddy read five books a day in College and was known for being a nerd regarding Birds especially. The movie "Rough Riders" captured him well overall. Yes I read his biography as well as roughly 30 other Presidents.
However, he likely would have been crusading for wind turbines since they are not emitting Emissions.
Coal pollution is the fourth killer of birds behind Ferrel Cats #1, windows from sky scrappers #2 an Herbicides Pesticides #3
The Wind Blades are unfortunate bcut considering we are now in our sixth mass extinction, human-caused its a small price to pay for clean energy. We will learn how to break them down soon :)
Btw, Trump is functionally illiterate, look up what that means.
@David Erickson I don't care for turbines personally, however, I am not sure how much of that Bias comes from Faux news and my poor choices in information previously. once I shut my mouth and starting reading about C02 I realize alternatives is something we need to embrace fully.
Mind you I think we should be more focused on nuclear, but it is a start.
Of course we will still use some oil, however, if we replace how we get it via Alage which can produce oil, then we eliminate drilling and the bi-product of Algae is food.
It takes three gallons of water to produce one gallon of oil from fracking.
That is insane!
All Americans owe him a debt of gratitude.
I don’t think a lot of people realize if it were not for him making laws to protect land. Some idiots would have put a shopping mall over Yellowstone 😂
TR is my favorite President!
thank you he really is my great great great great grandpa
Lincoln, Washington, TR, LBJ, Nixon, Clinton. My all time greats
Madana Bhat-Khandige are the last 3. Your worst 3
Why? Why is he?
He and President Trump.
Michael Blake’s “The Cowboy President” is a wonderful book, that gives a lot of background to those times...
I can also recommend “Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands” by Roger Di Silvestro. It’s really excellent.
Unfortunately TR is being “canceled” in some circles. But in my book he’s one of our greatest (if not the greatest) president we ever had!
While teddy was a sitting president he would disappear for months at a time going to Yellowstone or out in the woods and nobody would be able to get a hold of him😂greatest president ever
Yup, they had to send a bear to bring him messages and paperwork to sign. Often, the bear would take a holiday. Mountain bluebirds would end up doing many of the daily tasks of the Presidency, and and it seems they did a yeoman's job.
*Yeobird's job
Mo, you have a gift for reporting about people, places and things. thank you
President Theodore Roosevelt was a great man.
Go to Medora N.D. And enjoy this wonderfully beautiful PLACE.
Medora is not as peaceful or quaint as it used to be. Tourism has exploded and resulted in increased park entrance fees and shortages of hotel rooms and campground space. The cat is out of the bag.
Hands down the best president America has ever had.
I'd say top three for sure but Lincoln and Adams were far more significant in the role of the nation.
@@bf7504 Except Lincoln has the dark legacy of having killed the most Americans in a war ever
@@bf7504 which adams?
@@jennifernickel1017 The traitors are to blame for that (confederates)
No where near the best, but I would put him as the 4th greatest president. (Lincoln, FDR, and Washington are undoubtedly better presidents)
One of my favorite places on this planet, the badlands of North Dakota. Would go there as a child and will NEVER forget that place.
TR lost the 2 most precious women in his life on the same day, he was crushed. He knew he had to leave the East and go out West to gain his sanity, and build his soul. So he rode with the dudes out West as a cattleman to come to grips with his losses and after 3 years he was made whole again because of nature and his hard work to show the dudes out West he could be just like them. They finally accepted him as one of their own.
My favorite President. TR is the most inspiring leader America had.
Thank you curing my great grand father Teddy.
Teddy Roosevelt was such an incredible man. The more I watch and read about Him, the more I admire him. He suffered so much in his life, and it is so incredible how he worked himself out of his illnesses. What an incredible President was he. I hope they will NOT take down the statue of T. Roosevelt where he sits on top of a horse in front of the American Museum of Natural History. They should not remove that statue even if the mayor supports the removal.
What can a person say in praise of Theodore Roosevelt? Nothing. He can only shake his head and contemplate a remarkable character. Roosevelt speaks for himself.
Mornings On Horseback is a wonderful audiobook.
It’s insane how much his great grandson looks like Eleanor Roosevelt
Can not unsee. What's wrong with you.
🤨😳🤦♂️😂
Murdo Mackenzie, my gggrandfather, the last Comanche Chief, Chief Quanah Parker, and President Theodore Roosevelt, all were friends, and hunting companions. The town of Murdo, in either south or north Dakota, I can't remember, lol, is named after my gg grandfather. He became a popular, cattle baron here in the United States and in Brazil. Not bragging, just thought it was all kind of cool.
That's a cool history and family legacy. Murdo was one respected man in his time. Much like Theodore Roosevelt. Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful stories from the family, thank you!!
A lot of Roosevelt's conservation work was done with Aldo Leopold and John Muir. My dad played Aldo in Chataqua programs for many years, and I met a few of Aldo's children, and stayed at the famous old Leopold shack.
The generations past are still very close to us :)
Murdo MacKenzie was one of if not the greatest cattle managers of all time.
Thanks a lot
HOW can anyone justify having fracking so close to the river and so on top of a critical aquifer? Not just sounds but smells that contaminate what TR [and all of us] need.
All those Buffalo and cattle contaminate that river more than fracking, which does no harm anywhere it has been used.
Yet here you are on the internet demanding oil.
How do you know they fracked the well and it is on top of an aquifer? Is there some water pollution you know about that is unknown to everyone else? Sorry, but I've been conditioned from experience to question every worst-case scenario assessment environmentalists come up with. They are usually uninformed to half of the story and imagine more problems in 5 minutes than what reality can dispel in 50 years. All the while, they live and thrive in the comforts and conveniences made possible by the industries they condemn.
It's fairly simple because they know what they're talking about and you clearly do not! Where do you think that fracking took place on that well first of all there is very little Aquaphor in that area and there is literally 2 miles of Rock between that River and where the fracking took place! Not to mention three different oil fields above that well and about a half a dozen brine Fields of water so salty you could damn your walk on it! Fracking does not have the ability to travel vertical more than few yards let alone two f****** miles!
@@chrisisom992 the well is definitely fracked there is no question of this that well is in one of two oil fields The Bakken or the sanish is Three Forks which lies just below the Bakken. But you are correct in doubting there assessment since she clearly knows nothing of the actual Logistics physics and the realistic real-world possibilities of what fracking would do in that area.
A man of His time's a "Nationalist Born for the Wilderness Nature is Wild leave it how it was." - Thomas Navarro
San Joaquin Valley,
Port of Ivory, CA 1949
Sequoia Forest Industries Ivory Pine Co.
Good man, TR
Some relatives of my family still run a ranch a few miles from the Elkhorn ranch also along the little Missouri river in the North Dakota badlands. Beautiful place to be. We really don't need oil that bad.
Beautiful video 👏✌🏻
He is something like 4 on the official best presidents list, one of a kind!
Best president ever!!!
His life is a great read , the Rise of T R. War Lovers, and Theodore Rex.
"Mornings on Horseback" is a good read too. Cheers.
Now I REALLY want to go there! I have been for the last couple years, but it expensive to get and go there for me. Does anyone know of a ranch close enough to where you could take a horse ride here?
When they are talking at the 4:16 mark they are sitting in a ranch yard that's just a little north of Ted's old ranch site. I believe the horses they are riding came from that ranch too. It's named the Elkhorn Ranch.
The GREATEST president
Best president in history
Great post! My grand father, an Irish immigrant, paired up with Teddy, at 17 years old. Teddy thought Tommy was 21 yrs old. However, him being full of moxie and tough like Teddy. He got an invitation to train and join the Rough Riders. Tommy grabbed the opportunity. Together they fought on horseback. Both caught Yellow fever. Both survived but long term consequences resulted in untimely deaths for both. My namesake was mustered out of the FIRST VOLUNTEER AMERICAN ARMY. Grandfather left as a Sargent. I have all of the paperwork. I also believe my grandfather was part of Teddy’s entourage when Teddy hunted Mt. Lion in Meeker, Colorado. Teddy killed the state record cat. KARMA is great here, with me to this date hunting annually in the Meeker area and living deep in a forest in West Michigan. I believe I inherited their MOXIE and passion to be engaged in NATURE!
Your content is super!
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These cbs presidential vids are suprisingly entertaining
So interesting!
This is so cool!
If we don’t take care of the environment it won’t be here for our children or grandchildren!!
Great piece and appreciate the education and vision TR had for us. I wonder who was president during this time period who allowed oil wells on the property? Hmmmm, find this interesting.
TR was our greatest 20th-century president.
My most favorite President.
Do one on James Polk
"Save the land".
TR 4th needs his own identity.
And there are presidents who have never bothered to go out to explore nature.
A full life
🇺🇸God bless him 🙏🏼❤
Love Medora ND
Yaa
Bull Moose will always be in my top 3 presidents
To cold in this area of the country 👎
all of Theodore's testosterone went to this great grandson and left Mark with none
I found out last year that me and the Roosevelt’s are related. Very interesting
God, imagine being the great grandson of the based alpha male himself
It's more than just him. I'm not sure if he is a grandson of Teddy Jr or not but whatever, that man was one heck of an Army General in his own right. The oldest man to land on Normandy on D-day. He used a cane and one of his son's was there. Got a Medal of Honor for it, too bad he died of a heart attack in France a month later. His Jeep had "Rough Rider" painted on, it's a great photo to look up.
If the goal is to continue increasing the population of the U.S. in order to create more consumers for economic growth, then this and most other wild places will have to recede if not disappear. In 1880, the population of the U.S. was barely 40 million people. In 2020, it stands at 330 to 335 million people. This can't continue and not affect the Nation's remaining wild places.
His great grandpa used to call my great-great grandpa the “Little Pope”, bc they were friends and my great grandpa was short, Catholic and had 20 kids!!
The description of the cottonwoods sums up my channel.
It’s only going to look so different but here’s hoping Red Dead Redemption 2 was inspired.
Why no audio?
He got shot the docter said it's more safe to leave it in
Yes we all know, idiot.
Too bad ugly oil wells are there today. I wonder why the house is gone?
Whatever happened to the daughter he abandoned?
He didn't . He came back. She lived to be in her ninties.
Raised by aunt until his second wife insisted that she should be raised by her. A good woman.
It is Alice Roosevelt. He once said he could manage the country or Alice- he couldn’t do both. It had to be hard for her- he never talked about her mom.
Did he bring his baby girl?
He did not. He left her with "Aunt Bye," his sister Anna (in Wikipedia under her childhood nickname "Bamie").
No, she was left with his sister Bamie (rhymes with Sammy).
Ablity, but not go
In in first few days there he beat up the two biggest hombres in a saloon who made fun of his glasses, and found a very dangerous wanted criminal and collected the bounty. He was a good boxer and a tough number.
Teddy was a Mans Man who boasted about jumping from the back of a horse and strangling a lion. He ironically enough was more proud of killing a Spaniard with his bare hands as a Rough Rider.
With that said he was a voracious reader consuming five books a day in college. He also wrote several books himself.
The oil derrick is a slap in his face as he wrote.
."the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils shall have been still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields, and obstructing navigation"
The guy doing the interview needs to maybe go up one size in shirts
Yes
Roosevelt a true paradox. A big game hunter that today make animal rights activists cringe. Sagamore Hill adorned with stuffed dead exotic animals. Yet, the same man starts our National Parks system to preserve for eternity the dignity of our lands. Who woulda thunk?
4:05 - 4:10 That's what people need to do today. Depression and suicide are on the rise. Big time!
How sad it is that president Trump cares nothing about our land, cares nothing about the environment and if it isn't a golf course he hasn't been on it. We need politicians like Teddy who are connected to this great LAND.
Larry Lawfer
It’s not sad. It’s only your opinion created by CNN and all the other Hate Media. Teddy was a big time hunter, fisherman, and conservationist. He was the epitome of what we Republicans are here in Texas. National Forests, Parks, and Monuments are still very much protected. Private Land is the owner’s discretion, but still regulated by State & Fed Govt. Break a State game law here in Texas, and the State will throw the book at you if they catch you. Btw, A person cannot walk out their front porch and dig a well for oil without permits.
I agree that we need more Teddy R’s in Govt. That means more Hunters, Fishermen, and Conservationists representing us nationwide. I’m all for it. When was the last time Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Waters, Cortez, or those Jihad ladies from MN & MI paid for a Hunting and Fishing license? The revenue for those licenses go back to the States for Conservation efforts. A person doesn’t have to hunt or fish to buy one either, so what’s the deal with not helping out the efforts?
@@jgringo5516 My opinion is informed not just by one source, I read and digest multiple sources because I am looking for truths told from various sources. The epitome of Texas politicians is your former Governor who recently left Trumps Cabinet and Ted Cruz who rejoined the bandwagon to get back in office. The private land issue you speak of speaks against the taking of land for a wall that will do little regarding immigration in this country. Who can forget Sarah Palin and her hunting in the wilds of Alaska. I understand your point of view Sabre, I lived in TX for 9 months which was long enough to understand that Texans have strongly held beliefs, but those beliefs are not uniform to all Texans. Have a wonderful, safe and happy new year.
Now he wants his great grandfather's statue removed. Coward.
Protect landscape for Americans . Hint : Did my ancestors not want that ?
Sorry, your view shed ends where your property line starts. That’s a free country!
Worry about green spaces in eastern and west coast cities and leave the westerners alone.
That's not a rig. That's called a Pump Jack it actually lifts oil via a down hole pump and sucker rods that actuate the pump. When the well is abandoned you will not know it was ever there, or that it pumped oil from a mile or two beneath your feet. Please work from knowledge, not ignorance. Call things by their name, not something you made up to create discord.
His use of "rig" was as a generic term
We are talking about the reporter who has little to no experience or knowledge in oil drilling. Come on!
@@Jocular64 perhaps you should pay a little more attention yourself cuz it wasn't the reporter that called it a rig it was the conservationist woman!
Oil reserves are minuscule. 2 to 24 billion barrels. The USA burns a billion barrels every 50 days...
Nerdy guy isn’t fun, but good video.
Deed, diidit
Democracy runs on oil.
We should treat oil barons how we treated horse thieves. We need oil. But not that bad. Just another way to ruin the land for extra profit that is only good for making an oil baron richer. It’s not necessary. They choose to.
Domestic threat or not, I would get rid of that oil rig 😂 reeeaaaaal fast.
They ruined the view of the Trump golf course at Aberdeen by putting up some STINKING wind mills.
Don't like oil drilling? If you own a car you are part of the problem.
If you have a computer, cell phone or anything plastic. You are part of the problem. ALL use petroleum. So there.
Rap worse they use lithium and nitrogen triflouride
Drill baby drill.
Lifestyles of the rich disgusting elites.
Decide---between nationalism and energy freedom from China and Saudi Arabia.
Pres. Trump = Pres. Teddy Roosevelt.
Bahahahahaha not even close by a looooooooooooooooooooooong shot
@@JusMG559 jeez stop being toxic
@@b5-christopherchong513 No, it's okay. Trump deserves it.
He is the WORST President in U.S History