“Now we’ve got that damned cowboy as President!” Senator Mark Hanna exclaimed referring to Vice President Theodore Roosevelt after President William McKinley’s death in September 1901. Bully for Michel Blake’s The Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt (TwoDot, $16.95).
As a young man

True West June 2018
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- What History Has Taught Me: Rudolfo Anaya
- A Watch to Die For
- Did Ranches have Ice Houses?
- Idaho City: Queen of the Gold Camps
- Western Events for June 2018
- Did Gunmen really make Tenderfeet “Dance” by Shooting at their Feet?
- Was “Little Gertie, the Gold Dollar” Real?
- Romance and the Buffalo Hunt
- Discover San Angelo – An Oasis in West Texas, Off the Beaten Path
- What Happened in the Billy Allen-”Doc” Holliday Fight Over $5?
- The Painter’s Cabin
- The Dodge City Lawdog