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7 In his opinion TR, Letters, vol. 3, 141–42; The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, memorial edition (New York, 1923–1926, vol. 17, 96; Orin Kellogg in Murphy, Theodore Roosevelt’s Night Ride, 21. Czolgosz did not “get away”; he was executed within weeks.
8 meanwhile, in washington New York Press, 4 Sept.; Harper’s Weekly, 21 Sept. 1901; Charles Willis Thompson, Party Leaders of the Time (New York, 1906), 261–62, 281–82; New York World, 17 Sept. 1901.
9 at about 3:30 A restored version of Aiden Lair Lodge may be seen beside Route 28N. Upper Tahawus is now a ghost town, but the Roosevelts’ cabin survives. Lower Tahawus is maintained by a hunting club. North Creek station has been restored as a state historic site.
10 “Any news?” Mike Cronin interview, New York Herald, 15 Sept. 1901.
11 The new horses Orin Kellogg interview, New York World, 19 Sept. 1901; Murphy, Theodore Roosevelt’s Night Ride, 23; Mike Cronin interview, New York Herald, 15 Sept. 1901.
12 since puberty In the half-envious words of Henry Adams, “Theodore is one of the brainless cephalopods who is not afraid.” The Letters of Henry Adams, ed. J. C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels, et al. (Cambridge, Mass., 1982–1988, vol. 5, 349.
13 From that viewpoint For TR’s presidential aspirations, see, e.g., TR, Letters, vol. 3, 104, 114–15, 120. According to William Allen White, Autobiography (New York, 1946), 327, “Even in 1899 we were planning for 1904.” See also William Allen White, Selected Letters, 1899–1943, ed. Walter Johnson (New York, 1947), 126–27, and Henry F. Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography (New York, 1931), 229–30. TR continued with his plans right through the final illness of McKinley. TR, Letters, vol. 3, 144 (10 Sept. 1901).
14 He had fought TR, Works, vol. 5, 267.
15 Yet just when See Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt (New York, 1921), 198. TR was “very depressed” as Vice President, his daughter Alice remembered. “He thought …[it] was the end of his career” (Michael Teague, Mrs. L.: Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth [New York, 1981], 112). Notwithstanding his plans for 1904, TR talked miserably of becoming a lawyer, or of writing further installments of his multivolume history, The Winning of the West (George Haven Putnam, Memories of a Publisher [New York, 1915], 144; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 31, 72). The most comprehensive account of TR’s prepresidential career is Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (New York, 1979), to which this volume is a sequel. For a detailed study of TR’s first twenty-eight years, see Carleton Putnam, Theodore Roosevelt: The Formative Years (New York, 1958). David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback (New York, 1981), covers the same period. TR’s family life and second marriage are fully described in Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt.
16 His path ran Murphy, Theodore Roosevelt’s Night Ride, 25.
17 The final dash The New York Times, New York Press, and New York Herald, 15 Sept. 1901. Cronin’s time of 1:41 from Aiden Lair to North Creek beat his own previous record by a quarter of an hour. Later that month, a reporter attempted the same drive, at night and under similar conditions; it took him four hours (New York World, 29 Sept. 1901). The record still stands. Murphy, Theodore Roosevelt’s Night Ride, 29.
18 the president died Facsimile telegram, 14 Sept. 1901 (TRB).
19 Looking suddenly worn The New York Times and New York World, 15 Sept. 1901; Murphy, Theodore Roosevelt’s Night Ride, 26–27.
20 roosevelt’s first words New York World, 15 Sept., and New York Herald, 14 Sept. 1901; William Loeb, Jr., to author, 28 Feb. 1975 (AC).
21 Mount Marcy’s cloud banks New York Herald and New York World, 15 Sept. 1901; Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 214–21.
22 At about seven o’clock New York Sun, 15 Sept. 1901.
23 Roosevelt did not need Ibid., 15 and 10 Sept. 1901. For an account of the anarchist phenomenon in Europe and America, 1890–1914, see Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower (New York, 1966), 63–113.
24 Personally, Roosevelt TR, Letters,