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and still more of the men who were with me in the Rough 

 Riders, have shared in some way or other in my later 

 political life. Phil Stewart was one of the Presidential 

 Electors who in 1904 gave me Colorado's vote; Merri- 

 field filled the same position in Montana and is now Mar- 

 shal of that State. Cecil Lyon and Sloan Simpson, of 

 Texas, were delegates for me at the National Convention 

 which nominated me in 1904. Sewell is Collector of Cus- 

 toms in Maine; Sylvans and Joe Ferris are respectively 

 Register of the Land Office and Postmaster in North 

 Dakota; Dennis Shea with whom I worked on the Little 

 Missouri roundup holds my commission as Marshal of 

 North Dakota. Abernathy the wolf hunter is my Mar- 

 shal in Oklahoma. John Willis declined to take any 

 place ; when he was last my guest at the White House he 

 told me, I am happy to say, that he does better with his 

 ranch than he could have done with any office. Johnny 

 Goff is a forest ranger near the Yellowstone Park. Seth 

 Bullock is Marshal of South Dakota; he too is an old 

 friend of my ranch days and was sheriff in the Black 

 Hills when I was deputy sheriff due north of him in 

 Billings County, in the then Territory of Dakota. 

 Among the people that we both arrested, by the way, was 

 a young man named " Calamity Joe," a very well-mean- 

 ing fellow but a. wild boy who had gone astray, as wild 

 boys often used to go astray on the frontier, through bad 

 companionship. To my great amusement his uncle 

 turned up as United States Senator some fifteen years 

 later, and was one of my staunch allies. Of the men of 

 the regiment Lieutenant Colonel Brodie I made Gov- 



