THE WINNING OF THE WEST (ILLUSTRATED)

o Illustrated with 20 imagesTheodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, who led his Rough Riders in the charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War and who served as the 26th president of the United States, was also a professional historian. His four-volume masterpiece, The Winning the West, covers the Northwest, the territory east of the Mississippi that was conquered and settled between the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Roosevelt's style is engaging, and the anecdotes he recounts make events and characters of that time unforgettable, from the days of Daniel Boone to the Louisiana Purchase (which made legally a part of the United States a vast territory that had already been pioneered and settled by Americans) . President Roosevelt was an explorer, naturalist, hunter, and soldier; so he writes with the immediacy of personal experience.