{"date":"1884-06-25","weekday":"Wed","year":1884,"month":6,"day":25,"age":25,"has_entry":true,"headline":"Finding the Elkhorn site","summary":"After a mallard for the pot, Roosevelt scouts the river north of Medora for a new ranch site. He buys a squatter's claim for $400, and a pair of locked elk antlers found on the ground gives the place its name: the Elkhorn.","significance":3,"location":{"id":"maltese-cross-ranch","name":"Maltese Cross Ranch","lat":46.9139,"lon":-103.52435,"source":"heading-carried","also":[]},"places":[{"id":"elkhorn-ranch","name":"Elkhorn Ranch","lat":47.25279,"lon":-103.62408},{"id":"medora-nd","name":"Medora","lat":46.9139,"lon":-103.52435},{"id":"little-missouri-river","name":"Little Missouri River","lat":null,"lon":null}],"people":[],"events":[{"seq":1,"action":"hunting","detail":"Shoots a mallard drake with a rifle for food","time":null,"people":[],"places":[]},{"seq":2,"action":"travel","detail":"Searches north of Medora for a second ranch location","time":null,"people":[],"places":["medora-nd","little-missouri-river"]},{"seq":3,"action":"business","detail":"Pays a squatter $400 for his claim to the site","time":null,"people":[],"places":["elkhorn-ranch"]},{"seq":4,"action":"ranching","detail":"Names the new ranch Elkhorn after interlocked antlers found nearby","time":null,"people":[],"places":["elkhorn-ranch"]}],"letters":[],"tr_quotes":[{"text":"One mallard drake, shot with rifle for pot.","kind":"diary","verified":false}],"works":[],"references":[],"guests":[],"tags":["badlands","ranching","business"],"film":false,"periods":["badlands-years","ny-assembly"],"sources":[{"work":"TRA Chronological Record (TRC-CR-1)","pages":["V1884 p13"]}],"redated_from":null,"uncertain":null,"archive":{"source":"Theodore Roosevelt Center, Dickinson State University","count":2,"types":{"Cartoon":2},"items":[{"title":"\"A unit\"","type":"Cartoon","url":"https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o287982/"},{"title":"His boasted magnetism – and the kind of metal it attracts","type":"Cartoon","url":"https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o287983/"}]},"prev":"1884-06-24","next":"1884-06-26","url":"https://daybyday.labs.trlibrary.com/day.html?date=1884-06-25"}