CHAPTER VII. 
ROOSEVELTS LIFE IN THE WEST. 
Exciting Adventures—A Mistaken Ruffian—A Western Episode—The Pleasures of the 
Chase—Shoots His First Buffalo—Kills Two Deer at Four Hundred Yards—An Exciting 
Elk Hunt—Hunting Dangerous Game—Stands Off a Band of Indians—Tribute to the 
Rough Riders. 
M R. ROOSEVELT has told the story of his Western life in several 
exceedingly interesting volumes. Although full of exciting adven¬ 
tures and thrilling experiences, these captivating tales are modest 
to a fault. He seems to take as much delight in telling of the shots he 
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missed as of those which reached the mark. He never boasts, and while 
he must have participated in many adventures on the frontier, those 
which might suggest any display of heroism on his part are either omitted 
or else lightly touched upon. 
Although Mr. Roosevelt was undoubtedly looked upon as more or 
less of a “tenderfoot” by the indigenous Westerner with whom he was 
thrown into daily contact, he asserts that he was always treated with 
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