Furnishing plan for a Badlands ranch house - Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, North Dakota
Brown LE. 1969. Furnishing plan for a Badlands ranch house - Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, North Dakota. Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, National Park Service
This is a discussion of typical furnishings in ranch houses of western Dakota or eastern Montana during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. This unit of the National Park System on the western edge of North Dakota honors the activities of Theodore Roosevelt in that part of the best between 1883 and 1899. Roosevelt’s active involvement in Dakota ranching lasted less than five years, but he visited his Elkhorn Ranch nearly every autumn on hunting trips. This report discusses a furnishing plan for a ranch house in Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.