The Maltese Cross Cabin!

I went on my second tour of the Maltese Cross Cabin today. The cabin is pretty much the original cabin, there are a few things like the roof that had to be rebuilt and a few other little things but it is pretty sweet. I am working on making my tour of the cabin because that is the first of 4 or 5 different tours/programs that I am going to be doing out here. (I will post more about my tours and programs when I have them finished) But here are a few photos of the cabin! Enjoy!

 This was what I saw when I woke up at 7:30am this morning, kinda a cool sky. (BTW that is Mountain time)

 This is the Front of the Cabin...it may look really small but for the time when it was built it was actually considered very large. Also the steep roof like that is not common out west, TR wanted it like that so he got it lol.

 This is his bedroom, the bed would have been made out of straw or hay, the diary next to the bed is actually his original diary as well as the trunk in the corner that says TR.

 The Desk in this photo is the only original piece, however it is very significant because TR was very fond of reading and writing, having been said to have read over a book a day, even during his presidency. Also he wrote nearly 38 books and over 100,000 letters!

 I know it isn't a very good picture but the chair that is cut off in the bottom right of this picture is his original rocking chair. He loved rocking chairs and would spend hours sitting in them on the front porch of his next cabin at the Elkhorn Ranch. He would sit and listen to the cotton wood leaves rattle in the wind.

 This is the actual Maltese Cross brand that TR used for his cattle, legend has it that they burnt the brand in and he pounded 45 caliber shell casings into the brand. The shells have been removed by people over the years.

The logs are pine, that actually were meant to be railroad ties but the man that made them let them float down the Little Missouri and most of them were lost. A large pile of them landed on the Maltese property and were quickly gathered up to use for the cabin.