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Dublin Core
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Title
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Elkhorn Ranch
Subject
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Westward Expansion; Ranching in the Dakota Territories in the 1880s; Theodore Roosevelt; Little Missouri River
Description
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My curated map collection helps analyze how a particular space, the basin of the Little Missouri River in present day North Dakota, took on special personal meaning to Theodore Roosevelt in the 1880s. My project investigates how the land and people in the Little Missouri created a unique cultural and historical phenomenon that endured not just in Roosevelt’s conscience but also in the national imagination. My project will answer such questions as: what were the cultural and economic forces that led to a ranching boom in the Little Missouri Basin in the 1880s? How did the space change Roosevelt? How did he and others change the space? What cultural, ideological, and personal meaning did Roosevelt attach to the space, and how, and why? How did what happened there reflect or influence understandings of national identity in the latter half of the 19th century? I include these maps as texts and tools to provide context and analysis in answering these and other questions.
Creator
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Josiah Corbus
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
November 2016
Historical Map
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Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
Handwritten, single sheet
Format notes
9.5 x 13.25 in.
Collection
Name of collection of which the map is a part
Theodore Roosevelt National Park - National Park Service and Dickinson State University
Call Number
Accession Number: 474 / 6492b
URL or Unique Identifier
http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record.aspx?libID=o275512
Date Published
1900-1960?
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Title
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Ranches in North Dakota (Roosevelt) Badlands Area in '80's
Subject
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Medora; Ranches; Theodore Roosevelt
Creator
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Unknown
Source
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Publisher
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park - National Park Service and Dickinson State University
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1900-1960?
Format
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Handwritten, single sheet, 9.5 x 13.25 in.
Language
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English
Type
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Historical Map
Identifier
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Accession Number: 474 / 6492b
Description
An account of the resource
This map provides a loose sketch of the Little Missouri River Basin, with a focus on the tributary streams that flow into the Little Missouri, and the ranches in the area. Ambiguity about the map's authorship, date of creation, and scale--not to mention its unspecific, almost abstract, depiction of space--calls into question this map's reliability as a source of verifiable information. For instance, the way that each stream or creek is drawn almost identically, with two forks each, makes viewers wonder how accurate this map really is. Indeed, satellite imagery of the same area of the Little Missouri confirms that the map's depiction of streams is not faithful to the actual topography of the land. This inaccuracy does not mean, however, that the source surrenders all of its value. After all, the map's purported purpose is to show ranches, not natural features. In light of this stated goal, the streams may have been represented more for their position relative to ranches and each other than for topographic accuracy.
Even so, the value of the depiction of ranches is reduced by the lack of a date on the map. Though the map purports to show ranches in the '80s, assumed to mean the 1880s, the period in which Roosevelt came to the Little Missouri, there is reason to question how accurately this map represents 1880s ranches. For one, another map in this collection, also courtesy of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, shows far fewer ranches in the same area than this map shows. Furthermore, the inaccuracy of the rivers makes one wonder if the ranches are placed on the page with a similar disregard.
In spite of these shortcomings, the map provides some value in that it shows how ranches in the area were clustered along the Little Missouri. Also, by centering the map on Medora, the map-maker highlights the importance of that town as a transportation hub at the geographic center of the Little Missouri Basin ranching boom in the 1880s. Medora, of course, was the town that connected the region to the Northern Pacific, which transported cattle and people to and from all points East.
Coverage
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Scope: local geography. Selective portion of a small river basin.
colorless
Dakota Territory
hand illustrated natural features
Little Missouri River
Medora
no grids
ranches
rivers
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
tributaries
watershed