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Nicknamed Teddy--Goes to Harvard College--Member of Many Clubs--Death of Mr. Roosevelt--Anecdotes of College Life 11
Marries Miss Alice Lee--Travels in Europe--Bold Mountain Climbing--Elected to the Assembly--Personal Encounter with the Enemy 20
Theodore Roosevelt and Governor Cleveland--Good Work as an Assemblyman--Some Measures pushed through--Birth of Alice Roosevelt--Death of Mr. Roosevelt's Mother 30
Theodore Roosevelt as a Ranchman and Hunter in the Bad Lands--Bringing down his First Buffalo--Rattlesnakes and a Wild Goose 39
Grouse and Other Small Game--The Scotchman and the Skunk--Caught in a Hailstorm on the Prairie--Bringing down Black-tail Deer 49
Runs for Mayor of New York City--Marriage to Edith Kermit Carew--Hunting in the Bighorn Mountains--A Wild Chase after Three Elk 63
Bringing down a Grizzly Bear--Back to New York--Appointed a Civil Service Commissioner--The Work of the Commission 74
A Trip to the Shoshone Mountains--Caught in a Driving Snowstorm--Back to Work--Resignation as Civil Service Commissioner 85
Appointed Police Commissioner of New York City--Corruptness of the Department--Strenuous Endeavors to make Matters Better--A "Dry" Sunday--Enforcing the Tenement House Law and Other Measures 94
Appointed First Assistant Secretary of the Navy--The Condition of Affairs in Cuba--Preparing for War--Theodore Roosevelt's Resolve 104
In Camp at Tampa--To Port Tampa in Coal Cars--Theodore Roosevelt's Quick Move to obtain a Transport--The Wait in the Harbor--Off for Cuba at Last 122
Life on the Transport--The Landing at Daiquiri--The March to Siboney--The Trail through the Jungle--The Skirmish at La Guasima 132
Along the Jungle Trail--Fording the River--Opening of the Battle of San Juan Hill--Bravery of the Rough Riders--Personal Experiences of Theodore Roosevelt during the Battle 142
Results of the Fight--Life in the Trenches--The Spanish Fleet in Santiago Harbor--Another Great Naval Victory--The Rough Riders and the Spanish Guerillas 154
Devotion of the Rough Riders to Theodore Roosevelt--His Kindness to his Men--Last of the Fighting--The Truce and Treaty of Peace 163
Last Days in Cuba--The Departure for Home--Arriv
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