Hunting Trips of the Rancherman and The Wilderness Hunter by Theodore
Roosevelt.
This 1996 modern Library edition of two of Pres. Roosevelt’s
many books is readily available. In reviewing it I must reveal a big bias. It
seems my father born in 1909 had a middle name named after Pres. Theodore. I
followed with the same middle name and then Mrs. T and I named our eldest son
Theodore. Theodore Roosevelt was the most remarkable of men. He ushered his
country into the 20th century. He stands also in the first rank,
according to author Stephen Ambrose, of the 20th century presidents.
He was among famous world leaders second on the great writers list just behind
Winston Churchill and Julius Caesar. You can add scholar, cowboy, outdoorsman,
rancher, conservationist, war hero, police Commissioner, Nobel Prize winner for peace, and progressive
Republican who became president. He also reflected some of the currently
politically incorrect beliefs and biases of his times. He was a man for all seasons.
The memoir I just finished reading was an early one of his
many books. It does reflect the new man in the making, who lived in the West and
learned from it. As a young New Yorker, Harvard graduate, inheriting wealth from his father he presaged
his younger cousin Franklin and was the uncle of Franklins bride Eleanor. I
will say this about this book. If you’d like to meet this great president
firsthand instead of biographies or see his face on Mount Rushmore. Read about
him in his own words. It's real history in the making.
