The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is set to open in July 2026 outside Medora, North Dakota. Photograph by Image Professionals GmbH, Alamy Stock Photo Theodore Roosevelt first traveled to the ...

BILLINGS COUNTY, N.D. — When it comes to building a bridge, there are two obvious necessities: people and equipment. If that bridge is in the western North Dakota Badlands, a crew of pack mules can ...

Theodore Roosevelt said he never would have been president but for his experiences in North Dakota. Now, more than 100 years after his death, he’s returning the favor: North Dakota wouldn’t be opening ...

THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK, N.D. -- "I never would have been president," declared the nation's 26th commander-in-chief in 1910, "if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota." And ...

MEDORA, N.D. — The day his young wife and mother died, Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his diary that “the light has gone out of my life,” and it was only through extended trips to the isolated Dakota ...

Theodore Roosevelt first traveled to the Badlands on a hunting trip in 1883. He was so taken by the otherworldly landscape of pastel buttes, trilling meadowlarks, and disappearing bison, that he ...

The log cabin seems modest by modern standards. Stout when built in 1883, it looks smallish now, especially when one imagines it against the vast and rugged backdrop of the North Dakota Badlands. The ...