Roosevelt hired Bill Sewall[1] and Wilmot Dow, two Maine woodsmen, to run the ranch.

Roosevelt particularly enjoyed sitting in the veranda in a rocking chair, reading in the shade of the cottonwood trees.

When they did, Roosevelt kept watch over the three thieves with a shotgun and marched them overland to Dickinson, North Dakota, where he collected a $50 reward.

Roosevelt quit the ranch in 1887 after losing 60% of his stock in the starvation winter of 1886–87, and returned only a handful of times to the badlands after that.

This article about a property in North Dakota on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.