Sub-title: Adventures with America's Great Outdoorsman
A short book with snippets and stories about living and loving being in the outdoors from the twenty-sixth president.
One of the things I love about genealogy his how it leads me to research the historical context of my ancestors' lives. T.R. was born in 1859 and died in January of 1919. He was a child during the Civil War, fought in the Spanish-American War and died shortly after the end of WWI. For my family, he was a peer of my great-grandparents and a source of childhood stories for my grandparents. They saw the cartoons of him portrayed as a lion or a bear in the newspapers and were the first generations to have Teddy bears.
I enjoyed reading this book for the background on his love of the outdoors that lead to him becoming an avid conservationists and while president, establishing some of the first national parks. So much good reading in a small package!
Published: 2017 Read: March 2018 Genre: biography
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