He was a 24-year-old New Yorker who wanted to kill a buffalo. That’s how Theodore Roosevelt first came to the Medora area of Dakota Territory in 1883. The next year, he returned a broken man who needed to put his life back together. He would go on to change America—as the youngest president at 42—and it all started with that buffalo hunt. Roosevelt himself declared: “I would never have been president were it not for my experiences in North Dakota.” He’s as close as North Dakota ha


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