PAGE Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States Mr. Roosevelt's Residence at Oyster Bay Frontispiece President Roosevelt in 1880, and also at the Age of Nine Years Starting for the Hunt, Keystone Ranch "Busting" a Broncho. 40 48 President Roosevelt on Horseback President and Mrs. Roosevelt with Family 64 112 120 144 160 . 168 . 208 224 232 240 256 Mr. Roosevelt at Home Mr. Roosevelt, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy Mr. Roosevelt in Rough Rider Uniform Colonel Roosevelt as a Rough Rider 280 President Roosevelt Conferring with Senator Hanna . 356 . 362 . 372 Library of Mr. Ansley Wilcox at Buffalo . 376 The White House, Washington, D. C. Baby Quentin, the Youngest of President Roosevelt's The New White House According to Mr. and Mrs. Mc- 400 Who goes there? An American! Brain and spirit and brawn and heart. Student, trooper and gentleman Level-lidded with times and kings, Hand that's molded to hilt of sword; Wit and grace of the cavalier: All that his fathers prayed and felt 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 |