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Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States

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Mr. Roosevelt's Residence at Oyster Bay
Room in Mr. Roosevelt's House at Oyster Bay

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President Roosevelt in 1880, and also at the Age of Nine

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Starting for the Hunt, Keystone Ranch

"Busting" a Broncho.

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President Roosevelt on Horseback

President and Mrs. Roosevelt with Family

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Mr. Roosevelt at Home

Mr. Roosevelt, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Mr. Roosevelt in Rough Rider Uniform

Colonel Roosevelt as a Rough Rider

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President Roosevelt Conferring with Senator Hanna
Exterior of Mr. Ansley Wilcox's Residence, at Buffalo
President Roosevelt at the Martyred President's Casket . 366
The Mountain Guide Finds Mr. Roosevelt in the Adiron-
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Library of Mr. Ansley Wilcox at Buffalo

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The White House, Washington, D. C.

Baby Quentin, the Youngest of President Roosevelt's

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The New White House According to Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
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Who goes there? An American!

Brain and spirit and brawn and heart.
'Twas for him that the nations spared
Each to the years its noblest part;
Till from the Dutch, the Gaul and Celt
Blossomed the soul of Roosevelt.

Student, trooper and gentleman

Level-lidded with times and kings,
His the voice for a comrade's cheer,
His the ear when the saber rings.
hero shades of the old days melt
In the quick pulse of Roosevelt.

Hand that's molded to hilt of sword;
Heart that ever has laughed at fear;
Type and pattern of civic pride;

Wit and grace of the cavalier:

All that his fathers prayed and felt
Gleams in the glance of Roosevelt.

Who goes there? An American!

Man to the core as men should be. Let him pass through the lines alone, Type of the sons of Liberty. Here, where his fathers' fathers dwelt, honor and faith for Roosevelt!

GRACE DUFFIE BOYLAN.

INTRODUCTION BY GENERAL JOSEPH

WHEELER.

It is no flattery to say that Theodore Roosevelt possesses to a remarkable degree the best characteristics of the "typical American." He is learned, cultured, progressive and brave, an athlete, sportsman, ranchman, author, orator, politician, statesman and soldier.

I first knew this distinguished gentleman when, in April, 1889, he appeared in Washington as one of the three commissioners of Civil Service.

He came with the high reputation acquired as leader in the New York Assembly at the age of twenty-three, as a prominent champion of reform and opponent of Blaine at the Chicago convention when only twenty-five; as a candidate for mayor of New York city when barely twentyeight, receiving as he did a larger percentage of votes than had ever before been polled by a Republican candidate, and as an author with

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