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Holt Collier (c. 1848 – August 1, 1936) was a noted African-American bear hunter and sportsman. While leading a hunt for U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt in November 1902, Collier unwittingly set the stage for the event that originated Roosevelt's nickname, " Teddy Bear ."
The Holt Collier National Wildlife Refuge is one of seven refuges in the Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge Complex and is a 1,400-acre (567 ha) National Wildlife Refuge located on Bogue Phalia near Darlove, Mississippi.
Collier with his hounds, 1907. Holt Collier (c.1848–1936) was a onetime slave, soldier, cowboy and famed bear hunter. Collier was born a slave of the Hinds family ...
The definitive work and most authoritative source on the life of Holt Collier is Minor Buchanan’s “HOLT COLLIER: His Life, His Roosevelt Hunts, and The Origin of the Teddy Bear” (Centennial Press, August 1, 2002) and no where in this work does it make the preposterous claim that “Holt Collier was the only black man in the Confederate ...
The Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge Complex is the largest refuge complex in the state of Mississippi. [1] Over 100,000 acres (400 km 2) of refuge lands on seven refuges, including 13,000 acres (53 km 2) of refuge-managed Farmers Home Administration lands, provide vital habitat for fish and wildlife in the Delta region.
The 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.The regiment fought at Round Mountain and Bird Creek (Chusto-Talasah) in 1861, Pea Ridge, Siege of Corinth, Second Corinth, Hatchie's Bridge and the Holly Springs Raid in 1862, and in the Atlanta campaign, Franklin, and Murfreesboro in 1864.
The museum is located at 2201 Dottie Lynn Parkway, Suite 115, Fort Worth, Texas 76120. (817) 534-8801 Museum, (817) 922-9999 Business Office.
John Collier Jr. (May 22, 1913 – February 25, 1992) was an American anthropologist and an early leader in the fields of visual anthropology and applied anthropology.His emphasis on analysis and use of still photographs in ethnography led him to significant contributions in other subfields of anthropology, especially the applied anthropology of education.