E-text prepared by Robert Rowe, Charles Franks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team and revised by Tom Cosmas Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 4252-h.htm or 4252-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4252/pg4252-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4252/4252-h.zip) True Stories of Great Americans THEODORE ROOSEVELT * * * * * * 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 * * * * * * [Illustration: Copyright by Underwood and Underwood. 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