r and Caesar and St. Augustine and Calamity Jane.

The Northwestern newspapers of the middle eighties contain much
valuable material, not only about the Marquis and his romantic
enterprises, which greatly interested the public, but about Roosevelt
himself. The files of the _Press_ of Dickinson, North Dakota, and the
_Pioneer_ of Mandan, have proved especially useful, though scarcely
more useful than those of the Bismarck _Tribune_, the Minneapolis
_Journal_, and the _Dispatch_ and _Pioneer Press_ of St. Paul. The cut
of Roosevelt's cattle-brands, printed on the jacket, is reproduced
from the _Stockgrowers' Journal_ of Miles City. I have sought high and
low for copies of the _Bad Lands Cowboy_, published in Medora, but
only one copy--Joe Ferris's--has come to light. "'Bad-man'
Finnegan," it relates among other things, "is serving time in the
Bismarck penitentiary for stealing Theodore Roosevelt's boat." But
that is a part of the story; and this is only a Preface.

Colonel Roosevelt's own books, notably "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman,"
"Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail," "The Wilderness Hunter," and the
"Autobiography," have furnished me an important part of my material,
giving me minute details of his hunting experiences which I could have
secured nowhere else; and I am indebted to the publishers, Messrs. G.
P. Putnam's Sons, Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, and the Century
Company, for permission to use them. I am indebted to the following
publishers, likewise, for permission to reprint certain verses as
chapter headings: Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company ("Riders of the
Stars," by Henry Herbert Knibbs, and "Songs of Men," edited by Robert
Frothingham); the Macmillan Company ("Cowboy Songs," edited by
Professor John A. Lomax); and Mr. Richard G. Badger ("Sun and Saddle
Leather," by Badger Clark). I am especially indebted to Mr.
Roosevelt's sisters, Mrs. W. S. Cowles and Mrs. Douglas Robinson, and
to the Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge for the opportunity to examine the
unpublished letters of Colonel Roosevelt in their possession and to
reprint excerpts from them. Through the courtesy of Mr. Clarence L.
Hay I have been able to print a part of an extraordinary letter
written by President Roosevelt to Secretary Hay in 1903; through the
courtesy of Messrs. Harper and Brothers I have been permitted to make
use of material in "Bill Sewall's story of T. R.," by William W.
Sewall, and in "The Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt."

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