jS AMONG THE COWBOYS AND IN THE HUNTING FIELD 



His ranch lay on both sides of the Little Missouri, in Dakota 

 Territory, that section of it which is now the State of North 

 Dakota. He lived here in the open, making friends with the un- 

 disciplined ranchmen and frontiersmen, taking part in all the duties 



of the ranch, and varying 

 this with hunting excur- 

 sions for big game in the 

 surrounding plains and 

 on the not distant flanks 

 of the Rocky Mountains. 

 Vignettes of his life 

 here stand out pictur- 

 esquely. Thus he tells 

 us, not without a sense of 

 exultation, of being thir- 

 ty-six hours in the saddle 

 as one of a party, dis- 

 mounting only to change 

 horses and to eat. Again 

 we behold him with one 

 cowboy keeping night 

 guard over a herd of a 

 thousand cattle in a dry 

 camp, spending the whole 

 night on horseback in 

 strenuous eflforts to keep 

 the thirsty cattle from 

 stampeding in search of 

 water. 



More interesting still is the story of the round-up of a herd of 

 some two thousand in the midst of a driving bhzzard, with pouring 

 rain that stretched out in stinging level sheets before the wild wind. 

 With this were blinding lightning flashes and terrific thunder which 

 maddened the frightened animals, rendering it next to impossible to 

 hold them. It reads like the story of a Homeric battle. Round and 

 round rode Roosevelt and his men, wheeling and swaying, galloping 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN HIS HUNTING COSTUME 



