"Great Heart": The Life Story of Theodore RooseveltKnopf, 1919 - 242 pages |
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... horse corral lay not far from the house . In winter wolves and lynxes traveled up the river on the ice , directly in front ... horses , mended their saddles and practised with the rope . Hunting trips broke into regular ranch life . The ...
... horse corral lay not far from the house . In winter wolves and lynxes traveled up the river on the ice , directly in front ... horses , mended their saddles and practised with the rope . Hunting trips broke into regular ranch life . The ...
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... horse , heard be- hind him a cowboy remark to the effect that he would find it hard to qualify for the job of " bronco buster . " Roosevelt enjoyed these jokes as much as those who made them . The West was a bad place for a coward or a ...
... horse , heard be- hind him a cowboy remark to the effect that he would find it hard to qualify for the job of " bronco buster . " Roosevelt enjoyed these jokes as much as those who made them . The West was a bad place for a coward or a ...
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... horse , with rifle in hand , and rode to the door of the American's mud ranch , breath- ing threats of slaughter . The latter , however , was not caught napping . From behind a corner of his building he instantly shot down his fool- ish ...
... horse , with rifle in hand , and rode to the door of the American's mud ranch , breath- ing threats of slaughter . The latter , however , was not caught napping . From behind a corner of his building he instantly shot down his fool- ish ...
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... horse . He stopped for the night at a little cow town , but was informed by the owner of the only hotel that the only accommoda- tion left was a room containing two double beds , and that three men were already occupying these beds ...
... horse . He stopped for the night at a little cow town , but was informed by the owner of the only hotel that the only accommoda- tion left was a room containing two double beds , and that three men were already occupying these beds ...
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... of young bucks . These redskins were generally insolent and reckless , and if they met a white man when the chances of their detection and punishment were slight they would take away his horse and rifle GREAT - HEART [ 21.
... of young bucks . These redskins were generally insolent and reckless , and if they met a white man when the chances of their detection and punishment were slight they would take away his horse and rifle GREAT - HEART [ 21.
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Page 234 - REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 192 - Each nation must keep well prepared to defend itself until the establishment of some form of international police power, competent and willing to prevent violence as between nations. As things are now, such power to command peace throughout the world could best be assured by some combination between those great nations which sincerely desire peace and have no thought themselves of committing aggressions.
Page 195 - How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Page 195 - No spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living ! the leaping from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Page 80 - York," to use the vernacular of our native city. To show our community of feeling and our grasp of the facts of life, I may mention that we were almost the only men in the Police Department who picked Fitzsimmons as a winner against Corbett.
Page 217 - To THE SECRETARY OF WAR: Washington, DC : In view of the fact that Germany is now actually engaged in war with us, I again earnestly ask permission to be allowed to raise a division for immediate service at the front. My purpose would be after some six weeks preliminary training here to take it direct to France for intensive training so that it could be sent to the front in the shortest possible time to whatever point was desired. I should of course ask no favors of any kind except that the division...
Page 45 - Here there had been a windfall, and the dead trees lay among the living, piled across one another in all directions; while between and around them sprouted up a thick growth of young spruces and other evergreens. The trail turned off into the tangled thicket, within which it was almost certain we would find our quarry.
Page 134 - can you telegraph from here to the Philippines? " The General thought he might wait till he got to Washington; he was going in an hour. " No," said the President; " no, we will not wait. Send the order to have the names telegraphed, now. Those mothers gave the best they had to their country. We will not have them breaking their hearts for twenty-five dollars or for fifty. Save the money somewhere else.
Page 220 - To do so would seriously interfere with the carrying out of the chief and most immediately important purpose contemplated by this legislation, the prompt creation and early use of an effective army, and would contribute practically nothing to the effective strength of the armies now engaged against Germany.