Book Recomendations on Teddy Roosevelt

[BKhunter]

Hello All,

 

Interested in reading about Teddy Roosevelt and his hunting along with how he established the national parks and protected land we hunt. Does anyone have any good recommendations?

 

BK

[Dinsdale]

I have "African Game Trails" by Roosevelt.....

Cronicals a long safari(about a year in length) with his son Kermit, interesting read.

Easy to find a used copy around.

Edited November 26, 2015 by Dinsdale

[d-bone20917]

I just finished reading "The Big Burn" and I would highly recommend it.  It isn't really about hunting, but focuses on TR and how he and Gifford Pinchot established the national forests.  If you are interested in public lands and conservation like I am it's a great book. 

[ANTLERS]

To understand the man one needs to visit sagamore hill in oyster bay. Almost all authors who have written a book on TR have spent time there to get a feel for the man. Avoid books like Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, who portrays his passion for hunting as a "blood lust". My wife is the museum curator at sagamore hill NHS so we're a little passionate about the our youngest president here on Long Island.

[IRL]

Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. Aldo Leopold is also a good read. He was also one of the 1900s influential hunters and conservations. He was the first to recoginize/realize that eliminating predators was a huge mistake.