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National Park, Wyo., through 24 Apr.) 25: Billings, Mont., Alliance, Nebr. 26: Grand Island, Nebr. 27: Hastings, Lincoln, Fremont, Omaha, Nebr. 28: Shenandoah, Clarinda, Van Wert, Osceola, Des Moines, Ottumwa, Iowa. 29: Keokuk, Iowa; Quincy, Ill.; Hannibal, Clarksville, St. Louis, Mo. 30: St. Louis. MAY 1: Kansas City, Mo.; Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka, Kans. 2: Manhattan, Junction City, Abilene, Salina, Ellsworth, Russell, Hays, Wakeeny, Sharon Springs, Kans. 3: Sharon Springs. 4: Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Trinidad, Colo. 5: Santa Fe, Albuquerque, N.M. Terr. 6: Grand Canyon, Ariz. Terr. 7: Barstow, Redlands, San Bernardino, Riverside, Calif. 8: Claremont, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Calif. 9: Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Calif. 10: Monterey, Calif. 11: Pajaro, Santa Cruz, San Jose, Calif. 12: Palo Alto, Burlingame, San Francisco, Calif. 13–14: San Francisco. 15: Raymond, Calif. (Yosemite National Park through 18 May). 19: Carson City, Reno, Nev.; Sacramento, Calif. 20: Redding, Sisson, Calif.; Ashland, Ore. 21: Salem, Portland, Ore. 22: Chehalis, Centralia, Olympia, Tacoma, Wash. 23: Bremerton, Everett, Seattle, Wash. (by boat). 24: Seattle. 25: Ellensburg, North Yakima, Pasco, Wallula, Walla Walla, Wash. 26: Wallace, Harrison, Idaho; Tekoa, Spokane, Wash. 27: Helena, Butte, Mont. 28: Pocatello, Shoshone, Mountain Home, Nampa, Boise, Idaho. 29: Salt Lake City, Ogden, Utah; Evanston, Wyo. 30: Laramie, Cheyenne, Wyo. (on horseback). 31: Cheyenne. JUNE 1: North Platte, Nebr. 2: Denison, Fort Dodge, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Dubuque, Iowa. 3: Freeport, Rockford, Rochelle, Aurora, Joliet, Dwight, Pontiac, Lexington, Bloomington, Ill. 4: Lincoln, Springfield, Decatur, Ill.; Indianapolis, Ind. 5: Return Washington, D.C. “Tour of the President to the Pacific Coast,” booklet in GBC.

5 the emotional drain EKR was taken seriously ill at a reception on 12 Feb. 1903, and miscarried. Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 265.

6 and the stress See above, chap. 14; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 422; Washington Times, 20 Feb. 1903. Although TR’s chronic respiratory problem was more or less cured by his mid-twenties, he did have occasional later attacks, usually associated with extreme fatigue or fibrous inhalation. He admitted to “asthma—occasional attacks—not severe” when applying for life insurance early in his Presidency. McCullough, Mornings on Horseback; Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 164; TR to Anna Roosevelt Cowles (TRB); New York Life policy statement, 14 Nov. 1901, New York Life Archives, New York.

7 At Seward, he Pittsburgh Gazette and New York Sun, 2 Apr. 1903.

8 First, a baggage The Washington Post, 3 Apr. 1903; “Comment” scrapbook. There were no women aboard the Pacific Coast Special.

9 Last came Ibid.

10 AT 8:50 The following account is based on Chicago Tribune, 3 May 1903, and “Comment” scrapbook.

11 “There is a homely” TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 1,265–66.

12 Actually, Roosevelt Marks, Velvet on Iron, 58–59. As a recent case in point, TR had instructed Senator George Turner to keep a cool negotiating head at the Alaska Border Tribunal, but to be confident that, in the event of “specious and captious objections on the part of the English, I [will] send a brigade of American regulars up to Skagway and take possession of the disputed territory and hold it by the power and force of the United States.” Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 115.

13 He reiterated his TR, Works, vol. 13, 465, 467–68.

14 Roosevelt continued Dawes, Journal of the McKinley Years, 343–44.

15 “His hearty greetings” Ibid.

16 The Chicago Tribune’s “Comment” scrapbook.

17 In Milwaukee’s New York Sun, 21 and 25 Apr. 1903; TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 1, 272–78.

18 Further roars Burroughs, Camping and Tramping, 10; Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel, 4, 3 Apr. 1903; “Comment” scrapbook.

19 TARIFF POLICY IN TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, vol. 1, 294–320; Leslie’s Weekly, 30 Apr. 1903; New York Sun, 8 Apr. 1903; The Washington Post, 8 Apr. 1903.

20 He ate a TR, Letters, vol. 3, 550; Bismarck