Roosevelt Withdraws the Grand Canyon from Mining Claims
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Ecology, Environment, Conservation
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
- Geographical Location: Arizona
- Date: January 11, 1908
Article abstract: President Theodore Roosevelt used his executive authority to withdraw the Grand Canyon from mining claims, thus protecting it until Congress created the Grand Canyon National Park in 1919.
Summary of Event
President Theodore Roosevelt had long considered “the Canyon of the Colorado” the most impressive scenery he had ever seen. In a personal letter in 1903, he described it as “beautiful and terrible and unearthly.” The Grand Canyon, he wrote, made him feel as if he were gazing at “a sunset of strange and awful...
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