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26. Robinson, History of N.D., 190–6.
27. TR.Wks.I.17.
28. TR.Auto.111–2; Dantz, qu. HAG. Bln.; Merrifield, qu. ib. (“Roosevelt had a great weakness for bad men.”); Erskine, Gladys S., Bronco Charlie: A Saga of the Saddle (NY, 1934) 231–2; Hag.RBL.116. “I can’t tell why in the world I like you,” TR told Hell-Roaring Bill Jones, “for you’re the nastiest-talking man I ever heard.”
29. On Apr. 15, 1897, TR was re-elected as chairman of the Little Missouri Stockmen’s Association. Dickinson Press, Apr. 16. See also Put.528.
30. As early as August 1886, at the time of the Mexican war scare, the cowboys were anxious to follow TR into battle. See TR.Wks.I.378.
31. See, e.g., TR’s famous letter of Aug. 9, 1903, to John Hay, in Mor.3.547 ff.
32. Vollweiler, Albert T., “Roosevelt’s Ranch Life in North Dakota,” U. North Dakota Quarterly Journal 9.1 (Oct. 1918).
33. See Alex. 102–4.
34. Fourth-Class Postmasters were fired by the thousands, effecting a complete purge in two years; all 85 IRS inspectors were replaced, as were 100 of the nation’s 111 Customs Collectors. (Alex. 102.)
35. GC vetoed 413 bills in his first Administration. (Ib. 114.)
36. The wedding took place on June 2, 1886. See Nev.
37. N.Y.T., May 11, 1887.
38. Ib.; World, May 12, 1887.
39. N.Y.T., May 12, 1887; Sun, May 15. For a list of notables attending, see Trib., May 12.
40. The following account of TR’s speech is collated from N.Y.T., Trib., World, Sun, Her., Eve. Post, and Daily Graphic, May 12–16, 1887.
41. TR grudgingly allowed that GC had made some good appointments to the U.S. Treasury, and was taken aback by an unexpected burst of applause. Nev.367.
42. Trib., May 12, 1887.
43. Interestingly, Depew himself was a Presidential candidate at that time, and his remarks were interpreted by some as a put-down of the youthful TR.
44. Qu. Sun, May 16, 1887.
45. Ib.
46. Ib.
47. N.Y.T., May 13, 1887.
48. Un. clip, TRB; N.Y.T., May 13, 1887.
49. Ib.
50. Eve. Post, May 13, 1887.
51. N.Y.T., May 15, 1887; TR.Auto. 329–30; TR to B, May 21, 1887.
52. Lod.55; Hag.RF.15.
53. TR to B, Feb. 12, 1887.
54. TR.Wks.VII.241; Mor.131.
55. N.Y.T., May 6, 1888. See Gar.56 for an alternate explanation of editorin-chief Morse’s decision to commission the book. Morris is reprinted in TR.Wks.VII.235–470, and in a recent special edition by the Theodore Roosevelt Association of Oyster Bay, N.Y. (1975). This edition carries an introduction by John A. Gable, “Theodore Roosevelt as Historian and Man of Letters,” vii–xxiv.
56. Lod.57. See also Mor.7.175.
57. Lod.55. See also Gable, “Historian,” x.
58. Ib.
59. Mor.131.
60. TR.Wks.VII.306.
61. Ib., 324.
62. Ib., 328.
63. Ib., 329, 456, 336.
64. Ib., 459, 421.
65. Ib., 464, 459, 469
66. The Book Buyer, May 1888; N.Y.T., May 6; Dial, May 1888. For a more positive review, see The Critic, July 21: “We are struck with the author’s wide, if not profound reading of purely European political and general literature … crisp and even classic English … freely strung pearls of thought … sparkling on every page.” The Boston Advertiser came up with a telling line in its review of Apr. 4: “He [TR] seems to have been born with his mind made up.” The line may have been contributed, tongue-in-cheek, by the paper’s owner, Henry Cabot Lodge.
67. Mor. 119.
68. TR to C, June 8, 1887 (TRB photostat).
69. Rob.130; TR to B, Sep. 9, 1887; TR to C, June 8, Lod.57; TR to B, Aug. 20; Rob.130.
70. Gwy.67. This remark echoes one made privately by HCL, two years before in his diary: “The more I see him, as the fellow says in the play, the more and more I love him.” Qu. Put.506.
71. TR to B, Sep. 11, 1887; ib., Sep. 13, 1888.
72. As persona non grata in political circles, TR had taken no part in the New York State fall campaign, and his departure West was obviously timed to spare him the agony of witnessing another Democratic landslide in the