In the 1880s a grieving young New York politician bought cattle on the Little Missouri and set out to become a rancher. Drawing on the memories of the cowboys, hunters and neighbours who knew him there, Hagedorn recreates the Dakota cow-towns where riders shot the railroad station full of holes, and shows how the Bad Lands hardened the future president.
Lively frontier history for anyone curious about the Wild West years that shaped Theodore Roosevelt. Download the free EPUB.