Forging a President

"There are few sensations I prefer to that of galloping over these rolling limitless prairies, with rifle in hand, or winding my way among the barren, fantastic and grimly picturesque deserts of the so-called Bad Lands." —Theodore Roosevelt

He was born a city boy in Manhattan; but it wasn''t until he lived as a cattle rancher and deputy sheriff in the wild country of the Dakota Territory that Theod...