CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

EDITOR’S DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION
TR: The Man in the Arena

HISTORIAN

From The Winning of the West

The Spread of the English-Speaking Peoples

Boon and the Long Hunters: And Their Hunting in No-man’s Land, 1769–1774

From The Naval History of the War of 1812

1814: On the Lakes: Champlain

1815: The Battle of New Orleans

MEMOIRIST

From Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

The New York Police

From The Rough Riders

The Cavalry at Santiago

ADVENTURER

From Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail

The Ranchman’s Rifle on Crag and Prairie

From African Game Trails

A Railroad Through the Pleistocene

Lion Hunting on the Kapiti Plains

From Through the Brazilian Wilderness

The River of Doubt

Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest

MAN OF LETTERS

Washington’s Forgotten Maxim

The Peace of Righteousness

Books for Holidays in the Open

Dante and the Bowery

History as Literature

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ABOUT THE EDITOR

ALSO EDITED BY BRIAN M. THOMSEN

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