Theodore Roosevelt
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The firsthand account of the life of adventurer, scholar, war hero, and twenty-sixth president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt. There must be the keenest sense of duty, and with it must go the joy of living. Here, in his own words, Theodore Roosevelt recounts his remarkable journey from a childhood plagued with illnesses to the US presidency and beyond. With candor and vivid detail, this personal account describes a life guided by a restless...
Author
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Hunting tales of the west volume 4
Publisher
The Current Literature Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1909
Language
English
Description
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches brilliantly captures the thrill of the chase as Theodore Roosevelt, the man the teddy bear is named after, recounts his North-American hunting adventures. Told in campfire-story spirit, it is a celebration of the great outdoors, a handbook On hunting, and a socio-historical record of the United States in the nineteenth century...
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Publisher
Current Literature Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1909, c1885
Language
English
Description
Published in 1885, this passionate paean to the virtues and challenges of the outdoor life, set in the Dakota Badlands, is essential reading for aficionados of Theodore Roosevelt and those curious about the hardy frontier life that shaped this country yet has all but vanished from contemporary America.
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Series
Library of America volume 153
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Series
Hunting tales of the west volume 2
Publisher
Current Literature Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1909,c1893
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1902, this early work on Hunting trips on the Prairie and mountains is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. This is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Its chapters include; A trip after mountain sheep and Still hunting Elk on the mountains.
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Series
Library of America volume 154
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Hunting tales of the west volume 3
Publisher
Current Literature Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[c1893]
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English
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books/Harpercollins
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas about the nation's early days and his own times can be found sprinkled throughout his voluminous writings, but these "pearls of thought" (as one of his book reviewers described them in 1888) have never before been pulled together into one volume. Now, through the skillful editing of Daniel Ruddy, Theodore Roosevelt's History of the United States provides readers with Roosevelt's unique view of American history from the Revolution...
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The Floating Press
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English
Description
It is a good thing for all Americans, and it is an especially good thing for young Americans, to remember the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of their fellow-countrymen, and to keep in mind the feats of daring and personal prowess done in time past by some of the many champions of the nation in the various crises of her history. Thrift, industry, obedience to law, and intellectual culvation are essential qualities
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Emmett J. Scott, Lyman Beecher Stowe IT IS not hyperbole to say that Booker T. Washington was a great American. For twenty years before his death, he had been the most useful, as well as the most distinguished, member of his race in the world, and one of the most useful, as well as one of the most distinguished, of American citizens of any race. Eminent though his services were to the people of his...