Excerpt from The Roosevelt Book: Selections From the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt Half a dozen books have grown out Of this side Of his life, and they are full of instances which show his capacity for learning things from the men who really knew them. His gen erous praise and enthusiasm for the expert plainsman, the wily trapper, the fearless cow boy, the tireless hunter, are expressed in every chapter. He learned things by intelligent ap preciation of others and not by jealous rivalry. That is one of his most attractive traits. It is playing the game fair that appeals to him first, and then hitting the line hard. Even opponents and rivals like that kind of a man. Cow-punchers, foot-ball heroes, and po litical bosses have yielded admiration to it. And no boy can read what he has written and not feel the charm Of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.