The Commission decided not to erect a building and used it appropriation of a little over $50,000 in making exhibits in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy, Education, Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry, Fish and Game. The principal display was in the Agriculture building. In Mines and Metallurgy, the State showed its lignite and its Portland cement.
One of the most interesting features of the North Dakota exhibit was the "Roosevelt Cabin" in the Palace of Agriculture. It was the original cabin occupied for three years, from 1883 to 1886, by President Roosevelt, while a cattle owner in western North Dakota. It was an ordinary log cabin that had two rooms and was substantially built. The only reminders of the famous man who once occupied it were two pairs of trousers, a hat and a pair of high hunting boots that the ranchman wore almost 10 years before he became President of the United States. On the outer door of the cabin was a silver name plate that was placed there by Miss Alice Roosevelt, eldest daughter of the President, during her visit to the Exposition in the early part of June 1904. On the roof and near the building were some finely mounted specimens of deer, eagle, owl and fox. On an inner wall was a robe that was tanned, dressed and painted by the Gros Ventre Indians of Fort Berthold reservation. It represented a battle between their chiefs and a band of the Sioux in which the latter were defeated.
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