Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt African Game Trails

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
African Game Trails
April 1909 - March 1910

The hunter who wanders through these lands sees sights which ever afterward remain fixed in his mind.... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting.
- President Theodore Roosevelt
Khartoum, March 15, 1910

Expedition Members
Newland & Tarlton, outfitters
R.J. Cunninghame, leader
Leslie J. Tarlton, adjutant
Edmund Heller, zoologist, age 34
J. Alden Loring, zoologist, age 38
Edgar A. Means, physician, age 52
Kermit Roosevelt, photographer, age 21
Theodore Roosevelt, bwana, age 50
Hunting Licenses
50gbp, 50 animals/hunter
17gbp, extra bull elephant
5gbp, extra giraffe, rhino, or eland
3gbp, extra antelope
2gbp, extra wildebeest
2gbp, extra waterbuck
Expedition Costs
$50,000 from Smithsonian Museum appeal
$25,000 from Theodore Roosevelt
$25,000 from Andrew Carnegie
2005 equivalent = appx. $1.8 million dollars

Lion = 9
Hyena = 5
Elephant = 8

Rhinoceros = 5
(square mouth)
Rhinoceros = 8
(hook lipped)
Hippopotamus = 7
Warthog = 8
Zebra (common) = 15
Zebra (big) = 5
Giraffe = 7
Buffalo = 6
Elan (giant) = 1
Elan (common) = 5
Bushbuck =2
(East African)
Bushbuck = 1
(Ugandan)
Bushbuck = 3
(Nile)
Roan = 4
Oryx = 10
Wildebeest = 5
Hartebeest = 10
(Coke's)
Hartebeest = 14
(Jackson's)
Hartebeest = 1
(Ugandan)
Hartebeest = 8
(Nilotic)
Topi = 12
Waterbuck = 5
(common)
Waterbuck = 6
(singsing)
Python = 3

American Museum of National History GAME LIST
OF
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Kob = 10
(common)
Kob = 1
(Vaughan's)
Kob = 3
(white eared)
Lechwe = 3
(saddlebacked)
Redbuck (bohor) = 10
Buck (Chanler's) = 3
Impalla = 7
Gazelle (Granti) = 5
Gazelle (Robertsi) = 4
Gazelle (Notata) = 8
Gazelle = 11
(Thompson's)
Gerenuk = 3
Klipspringer = 1
Oribi = 18
Duiker = 3
Steinbuck = 4
Dikdik = 1
Monkey = 1
(red ground)
Monkey = 5
(black and white ground)
Ostrich = 2

Bustard (Greater) = 4
Bustard (Lesser) = 1
Crane (kavirondo) = 2
Stork (whale head) = 1
Marabou = 1
Stork (saddle bill) = 2
Stork (ibis) = 1
Pelican= 5
Guinea fowl = 1
Crocodile = 1

National Geographic Society

Sources:
Charles Morris, The Marvelous Career of Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
Theodore Roosevelt, African Game Trails, 1910