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CONTENTS
I. THE BOY WHO COLLECTED ANIMALS
II. IN COLLEGE
III. IN POLITICS
IV. "RANCH LIFE AND THE HUNTING TRAIL"
V. TWO DEFEATS
VI. FIGHTING OFFICE-SEEKERS
VII. POLICE COMMISSIONER
VIII. THE ROUGH RIDER
IX. GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
X. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
XI. THE LION HUNTER
XII. EUROPE AND AMERICA
XIII. THE BULL MOOSE
XIV. THE EXPLORER
XV. THE MAN
XVI. THE GREAT AMERICAN
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
CHAPTER I
THE BOY WHO COLLECTED ANIMALS
If you had been in New York in 1917 or 1918 you might have seen,
walking quickly from a shop or a hotel to an automobile, a thick-
set but active and muscular man, wearing a soft black hat and a
cape overcoat. Probably there would have been a group of people
waiting on the sidewalk, as he came out, for this was Theodore
Roosevelt, Ex-President of the United States, and there were more
Americans who cared to know what he was doing, and to hear what he
was saying, than cared about any other living man.
Although he was then a private citizen, holding no office, he was
a leader of his country, which was engaged in the Great War.
Americans were being called upon,--the younger men to risk their
lives in battle, and the older people to suffer and support their
losses. Theodore Roosevelt had always said that it was a good
citizen's duty cheerfully to do one or the other of these things
in the hour of danger.
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