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In this work, the author chronicles the turbulent years Roosevelt spent as a rancher in the Badlands of Dakota Territory, during which the character and commitment of the future president and conservationist took shape.
I liked reading TR in the Badlands, it is a very good, well written book and was very informative. If you like American History or the Roosevelt's I suggest you should read this book. ( )
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FOR MAUDE AND KEN, who introduced me to America's true West and left me with countless fond memoriesAND WITH THOUGHTS OF MY FATHER,who first introduced me to the life of Theodore Roosevelt
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(Preface) More years ago than I care to recall, when I was sixteen, a family in the Nebraska Sandhills invited me for an extended summer stay on their cattle ranch, a spread of some six thousand acres of Texas longhorns, and several dozen quarter horses.
(Prologue) When he died at sixty on January 6, 1919, Theodore Roosevelt left behind a life of adventure and accomplishment that ranked him among the nation's great leaders and one of its most popular, the only twentieth-century figure to be carved into Mount Rushmore along with Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.
Although Theodore Roosevelt would ride broncos and hunt buffalo in the Dakota Badlands, would stalk grizzlies and shoot elk, would ranch cattle and track down armed outlaws and become renowned during a political campaign as the Cowboy Candidate, he was urban born and raised.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Although he was more a tourist and outside investor in the West than a permanent resident, Roosevelt and the West is one of America's great stories. His sojourns in the Dakotas, Montana, and Wyoming had a powerful influence on his outlook and politics. Most of all, his time in the West brought him great joy.- Stephen E. Ambrose, introduction to Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter
It rains here when it rains an' it's hot when it's hot,The real folks is real folks which city folks is not.The dark is as the dark was before the stars was made;The sun is as the sun was before God thought of shade;An' the prairie an' the butte-tops an' the long winds, when they blow,Is like the things what Adam knew on his birthday, long ago.- from Medora Nights
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For at least an hour, Roosevelt was left to solitude, to the West, and to whatever memories he found there.
(Epilogue) Captioned "The long, long trail," it showed Roosevelt dressed as a cowboy, mounted on a horse, and waving farewell as he rode off into clouds leading to distant mountains.
In this work, the author chronicles the turbulent years Roosevelt spent as a rancher in the Badlands of Dakota Territory, during which the character and commitment of the future president and conservationist took shape.
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