Making of Theodore Roosevelt (eBook)

How two Maine woodsmen taught young Theodore Roosevelt to survive in the beautiful but unforgiving forests of the Northeast.

Robert L DeMayo (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
337 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
979-8-9868891-4-6 (ISBN)

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At twenty, Roosevelt had already traveled through Europe and the Middle East when he arrived in Aroostook County, Maine, but it was in Maine where he was tested-and tested himself. This historical fiction novel follows the three journeys he made to northern Maine in 1878-9. His father had died six months before his first visit, and on these trips, he hoped to simply "e;get away,"e; but he finds much more. Under the guidance of two Mainers, William Sewall and Wilmot Dow, the frail but strong-willed New Yorker becomes a worthy outdoorsman, an experience that significantly shaped the world view of the man poised to become the 26th President of the United States thirteen years later. Life in these woods-and the woodsmen that inhabit them-have a significant impact on Roosevelt as he continues to develop into a young man. It is there that he determines to battle his feeble physique. When he goes to a place called The Oxbow, he is exposed to hardened and uneducated men who take a strong liking to him. He later claims that this experience gave him the confidence to pull together the Rough Riders. Between trips to Maine, he returns to Harvard to study and soon meets his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, with whom he falls madly in love. Through it all, the future president discovers that it's not just about learning to "e;stand on your feet"e; that makes you strong, but integrity and the ability to overcome strife and personal challenges.

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Table of Contents

 

Introduction

 

Dedication

 

Chapter One - Northern Maine, 1878

 

Chapter Two - Mattawamkeag Station

Chapter Three - Island Falls

 

Chapter Four - The Northern Woods

 

Chapter Five - The Logging Camp

 

Chapter Six - A Night in the Open

 

Chapter Seven - The Bear

 

Chapter Eight - Bible Point

 

Chapter Nine - Harvard

 

Chapter Ten - Chestnut Hill

 

Chapter Eleven - Return

 

Chapter Twelve - The Frozen Woods

 

Chapter Thirteen - Caribou Chase

 

Chapter Fourteen - Another Night in the Open

Chapter Fifteen - A one-horse, open sleigh

 

Chapter Sixteen - The Winter Camp

 

Chapter Seventeen - Beans and Trapping

 

Chapter Eighteen - The Old Timers

 

Chapter Nineteen - Boxing Match

 

Chapter Twenty - Courting

 

Chapter Twenty-one - Katahdin

 

Chapter Twenty-two - Base Camp

 

Chapter Twenty-three - The Alpine Basin

 

Chapter Twenty-four - The Knife's Edge

 

Chapter Twenty-five - Island Falls and Bible Point

 

Chapter Twenty-six - Up the Aroostook River

 

Chapter Twenty-seven - The Munsungen Lakes

 

Chapter Twenty-eight - Canoe Trip to the Station

 

Chapter Twenty-nine - Alice

 

Postscript - Five years later

 

Author Bio - Robert Louis DeMayo

 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.9.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: Adventurers &amp • Aroostook Country and Island Falls Maine • coming-of-age story • explorers • Maine Historical Fiction • Maine woods and woodsmen and logging • Real-life • Teddy Roosevelt president • William Sewall and early Maine settlers
• ISBN-13: 979-8-9868891-4-6 / 9798986889146