Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

"Great-Heart": The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt

In the following pages Daniel Henderson has presented in condensed form the life story of Theodore Roosevelt. The writer has made no serious effort to go into the details of his official and political career or to deal with the great questions of foreign and home policy which...

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3. Part 3

The most exciting and dangerous part of the roundup comes when the cattle are stampeded by a storm or through fright. Anything may start them--the plunge of a horse, the approac...

4. Part 4

It was service of a similar kind that Roosevelt performed when he went among these primitive people of the wilderness. Schools were scarce in those days and opportunity for cult...

9. Part 9

“You will know more, sir, later; a good deal more, or I am much in error. Young? Why, he is just out of school almost, yet he is a force to be reckoned with in New York. Later t...

2. Part 2

Roosevelt brushed elbows in Medora with newly arrived hunters from the plains and mountains, clad in buckskin shirts and fur caps--greasy and unkempt, yet strong and resolute me...

5. Part 5

The Commissioner was interested--brave men always attracted him. He asked to see the young man, who was a Russian and who had some years ago come to America during one of the wa...

11. Part 11

“The biggest of the four stood a little out from the other three, and at him I fired, the bullet telling with a smack on the tough hide and going through the lungs. We had been...

7. Part 7

There has been much discussion as whether Roosevelt exceeded his authority in the capture of Kettle Hill. In reviewing the matter it is best to take the Colonel’s own account of...

6. Part 6

“For our own sakes, and in particular for the sake of any naval officer who in the future may be called upon to do such a piece of work as Dewey did, let us keep in mind the fur...

10. Part 10

“When I say a square deal I mean a square deal; exactly as much a square deal for the rich man as for the poor man; but no more. Let each stand on his merits, receive what is du...

8. Part 8

Those who remember the Venezuela incident of 1902 will recall that the German and British fleets thought it necessary to discipline President Castro. Germany, early in the proce...

1. Part 1

In the following pages Daniel Henderson has presented in condensed form the life story of Theodore Roosevelt. The writer has made no serious effort to go into the details of his...

12. Part 12

Thus, with telegrams and cablegrams of sympathy flooding the little Oyster Bay office by thousands, the father and mother of the boy who had given his life above the lines--rece...