Theodore Roosevelt Research Paper

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Many people know Theodore Roosevelt as the 26th president of the United States,but many people don’t know he was also a rancher.He loved to go hunting for Bison in the Badlands.He loved it so much he invested $14,000 in cattle and started a ranch south of neighboring towns of Little Missouri and Medora.Teddy wasn’t the typical cowboy he was 5-foot-8 and 135 pounds, he was anything but robust because of him shaving his beard and brushing his teeth.The other cowboys thought he was to clean and dressed too nice to be a cowboy.Roosevelt proved all the other cowboys wrong.In 1883, he killed his first buffalo by riding on horseback rather than being in a wagon with his guide.He worked so hard to kill that buffalo-hunting in the rain, sleeping out