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Forging a president : how the wild West created Teddy Roosevelt / William Hazelgrove.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hazelgrove, William Elliott, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Homes and haunts--North Dakota--Badlands.
- Roosevelt, Theodore.
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Career in ranching.
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Ranch life.
- History.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- United States.
- North Dakota--Badlands.
- Frontier and pioneer life--North Dakota--Badlands.
- Ranch life--North Dakota--Badlands--History--19th century.
- Badlands (N.D.)--Biography.
- Badlands (N.D.).
- Homes.
- Ranching.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 267 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Regnery History, [2017]
- Summary:
- Teddy Roosevelt went to live the last great adventure the Wild West could offer a young man. He realized every heroic role the myth of the West had to offer. It was an amazing intersection of opportunity, circumstance, and the individual. By leading a life in the West that was bigger than life, Teddy Roosevelt himself became bigger than life. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Badlands, Dakota Territory 1
- 2 The Mind But Not the Body 3
- 3 The Day the Light Went Out 11
- 4 The First Time West 17
- 5 The Dude 25
- 6 Into the Badlands 29
- 7 Hunting Buffalo 35
- 8 Cattle Rancher 43
- 9 Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show 49
- 10 Far Off from All Mankind 57
- 11 Four-Eyes 69
- 12 The Newly Minted Cowboy 77
- 13 The Big Horn Hunt 87
- 14 The Crazy Man 97
- 15 Right Between the Eyes 103
- 16 The Winter of Discontent 111
- 17 The Darkest of Moments 117
- 18 Such Good Fortune 123
- 19 The Reformer and the Rancher 127
- 20 That Photograph 133
- 21 The Wandering Cowboy 139
- 22 The Mornin' Glory 147
- 23 The Roundup 153
- 24 The Return of the Cowboy 165
- 25 Domestic Ranch Life and Bad Men 169
- 26 High Noon for the Marquis 175
- 27 Cowboys and Indians 181
- 28 Cowboy in Love 189
- 29 High Noon 193
- 30 Sheriff Roosevelt 203
- 31 A Darkening Cloud 211
- 32 The Roosevelt Gang 217
- 33 The Winter of Blue Snow 223
- 34 The Romance of His Life 227
- 35 The Last Cowboy 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-259) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1621574768 :
- 9781621574767
- OCLC:
- 955019962
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