TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vietze,Andrew
TI  - Becoming Teddy Roosevelt: how a Maine guide inspired America's 26th president 
SN  - 9780892727841
AV  - E757 .V664 2010
U1  - 973.91/1092 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - [Rockport, Me.]
PB  - Down East Books
KW  - Roosevelt, Theodore,
KW  - Sewall, William Wingate,
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Hunting guides
KW  - Maine
KW  - Outdoor life
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Dakota Territory
KW  - Ranch life
KW  - Aroostook County (Me.)
N1  - Maine Historical Society has the original manuscript draft of an essay by Roosevelt entitled "My Debt to Maine" (see published version in "Maine My State," published by the Maine Research Club, 1919); Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-195) and index
N2  - A sickly Harvard student. A Maine Guide. And a friendship that changed a man - who changed a nation.
Today we think of Theodore Roosevelt as a larger-than-life figure, but before he became a legendary outdoorsman, Badlands rancher, Rough Rider, trust buster, and political maverick, he was a "thin pale youngster with bad eyes and a weak heart," in the words of William Wingate Sewall, the upcountry Maine woodsman who would become Roosevelt's mentor and lifelong friend. The two met at a crucial time in Roosevelt's life, and Sewall exerted a quiet but profound influence on the man who would become America's twenty-sixth President. This is the untold story of their friendship - and the many adventures they shared
ER  -