Perhaps, locally, the most exciting event in 1913 By Martin Link
Roosevelt
John Lorenzo Hubbell and Theodore Roosevelt (center) are surrounded by host of Anglo spectators at the Hopi Snake Dance.
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February 2022
In August of 1913, former President Theodore Roosevelt was invited by John Lorenzo Hubbell, of Ganado, Arizona to visit the area and view the Hopi Snake Dance. Roosevelt accepted the invitation, and brought two of his sons, Archibald and Quentin, along for the experience. Roosevelt and his party had been on a hunting trip in southern Utah just prior to their arrival in Ganado, where they pitched a tent in Hubbell’s front yard rather than take up so many rooms in his home. For a couple of days Hubbell and Roosevelt just relaxed on the front porch, but constantly engaged each other in politics. Hubbell, a staunch Republican, was upset over Roosevelt’s “traitorous” break with the Republican Party and his alliance with the new Bull Moose Progressive Party. One of the Hubbell grandsons recalled the pair’s political arguments, which made him, as a child, think that they “were going to kill each other!” In all probability, Roosevelt didn’t take the arguments seriously but realized that they were good therapy for Hubbell, whose wife Lina had just died on July 13.
Hopi Snake Dancer- 1907 by Fredrick Monsen.
