Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands

ISBN-10: 1978377975
ISBN-13: 9781978377974
Series: Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands
Pages: 354
Language: English
Published: 2017-11-07
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author: Hermann Hagedorn

Description

The train rumbled across three hundred feet of trestle and came to a stop. A young man, slender, not over-tall, with spectacles and a moustache, descended the steps. If he expected that his foot, groping below the bottom step in the blackness for something to land on, would find a platform, he was doomed to disappointment. The "depot" at Little Missouri did not boast a platform. The young man pulled his duffle-bag and gun-case down the steps; somebody waved a lantern; the train stirred, gained momentum, and was gone, having accomplished its immediate mission, which was to deposit a New York "dude," politician and would-be hunter, named Theodore Roosevelt, in the Bad Lands of Dakota.