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True Stories of Great Americans

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

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OTHER BOOKS BY MR. PEARSON

(Published by the Macmillan Company)
The Believing Years
The Voyage of the Hoppergrass
The Secret Book

(Published Elsewhere)
The Old Liberians Almanack
The Library and the Librarian
The Librarian at Play

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MR. ROOSEVELT AT SAGAMORE HILL.]

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

by

EDMUND LESTER PEARSON

New York The Macmillan Company 1920

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1920, by the Macmillan Company

Set up and electrotyped. Published July, 1920.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The author wishes to express his gratitude for permission to refer to the works which have been consulted in writing this book.

First and foremost, to Mr. William Roscoe Thayer, for "Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography." (Houghton, Mifflin Co.)

To Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for these writings of Theodore Roosevelt: "African Game Trails"; "Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography"; "The Rough Riders"; "Through the Brazilian Wilderness"; "History as Literature." And for "Theodore Roosevelt and His Time" by Joseph Bucklin Bishop, in _Scribner's Magazine_, for December, 1919.

To Messrs. Harper and Brothers and to Mr. Hermann Hagedorn for "The Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt" by Hermann Hagedorn.

To The Century Company for these books by Theodore Roosevelt: "The Strenuous Life"; "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail."

To Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons for these books by Theodore Roosevelt: "American Ideals"; "The Wilderness Hunter."

To Mr. Charles G. Washburn for his "Theodore Roosevelt; the Logic of His Career." (Houghton, Mifflin Co.)

To Messrs Doubleday, Page & Co. and to Mr. Lawrence F. Abbott for "Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt" by Lawrence F. Abbott.

CONTENTS

I. The Boy Who Collected Animals 1
II. In College 10
III. In Politics 18
IV. "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail" 28
V. Two Defeats 37
VI. Fighting Office-Seekers 44
VII. Police Commissioner 50
VIII. The Rough Rider 58
IX. Governor of New York 70
X. President of the United States 81
XI. The Lion Hunter 99
XII. Europe and America 110
XIII. The Bull Moose 120
XIV. The Explorer 131
XV. The Man 137
XVI. The Great American 149

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Mr. Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill _Frontispiece_

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Theodore Roosevelt About 10 Years Old 33

Mr. Roosevelt as a Hunter 48

President Roosevelt Speaking in Atlanta 81

The Rough Rider (Cartoon) 96

President Roosevelt in the Saddle 113

President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Children 128

President Theodore Roosevelt 144

THEODORE ROOSEVELT