Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail Author:Theodore Roosevelt He acknowledged the great debt that he owed to those years he spent out west when he said, "I never would have been President if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota." — Following the disappointing 1884 presidential election Theodore Roosevelt decided to move West. — He built his ranch, named Elkhorn, just north of Medora i... more »n North Dakota.
It was here that he learned how to trap, hunt and survive in the wilderness like many of the great American adventurers who had travelled west before him.
Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail records what Roosevelt saw, heard and did through the course of the two years that Roosevelt spent in North Dakota.
The book is filled with fascinating tales such as serving for a short time as a deputy sheriff pursuing horse thieves, survive herd-killing blizzards and suffocating heat, hunting mountain goats, antelope and bighorn sheep to survive through the winter, as well as much more.
Roosevelt felt very aware that the world of the far west was changing as the country became more industrialized and so sought to record the lives of the trappers, bronco-busters, desperadoes and mule-skinners, the Indians, horse thieves and vigilantes before their world completely vanished.« less