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survives. Lower Tahawus is maintained by a hunting club. North Creek station has been restored as a state historic site.
    10 “Any news?” Mike Cronin interview, New York
Herald
, 15 Sept. 1901.
    11 The new horses Orin Kellogg interview, New York
World
, 19 Sept. 1901; Murphy,
Theodore Roosevelt’s Night Ride
, 23; Mike Cronin interview, New York
Herald
, 15 Sept. 1901.
    12 since puberty In the half-envious words of Henry Adams, “Theodore is one of the brainless cephalopods who is not afraid.”
The Letters of Henry Adams
, ed. J. C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels, et al. (Cambridge, Mass., 1982–1988, vol. 5, 349.
    13 From that viewpoint For TR’s presidential aspirations, see, e.g., TR,
Letters
, vol. 3, 104, 114–15, 120. According to William Allen White,
Autobiography
(New York, 1946), 327, “Even in 1899 we were planning for 1904.” See also William Allen White,
Selected Letters, 1899–1943
, ed. Walter Johnson (New York, 1947), 126–27 , and Henry F. Pringle,
Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography
(New York, 1931), 229–30. TR continued with his plans right through the final illness of McKinley. TR,
Letters
, vol. 3, 144 (10 Sept. 1901).
    14 He had fought TR,
Works
, vol. 5, 267.
    15 Yet just when See Corinne Roosevelt Robinson,
My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt
(New York, 1921), 198. TR was “very depressed” as Vice President, his daughter Alice remembered. “He thought …[it] was the end of his career” (Michael Teague,
Mrs. L.: Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth
[New York, 1981], 112). Notwithstanding his plans for 1904, TR talked miserably of becoming a lawyer, or of writing further installments of his multivolume history,
TheWinning of the West
(George Haven Putnam,
Memories of a Publisher
[New York, 1915], 144; TR,
Letters
, vol. 3, 31, 72). The most comprehensive account of TR’s prepresidential career is Edmund Morris,
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
(New York, 1979), to which this volume is a sequel. For a detailed study of TR’s first twenty-eight years, see Carleton Putnam,
Theodore Roosevelt: The Formative Years
(New York, 1958). David McCullough,
Mornings on Horseback
(New York, 1981), covers the same period. TR’s family life and second marriage are fully described in Morris,
Edith Kermit Roosevelt
.
    16 His path ran Murphy,
Theodore Roosevelt’s Night Ride
, 25.
    17 The final dash
The New York Times
, New York
Press
, and New York
Herald
, 15 Sept. 1901. Cronin’s time of 1:41 from Aiden Lair to North Creek beat his own previous record by a quarter of an hour. Later that month, a reporter attempted the same drive, at night and under similar conditions; it took him four hours (New York
World
, 29 Sept. 1901). The record still stands. Murphy,
Theodore Roosevelt’s Night Ride
, 29.
    18 the president died Facsimile telegram, 14 Sept. 1901 (TRB).
    19 Looking suddenly worn
The New York Times
and New York
World
, 15 Sept. 1901; Murphy,
Theodore Roosevelt’s Night Ride
, 26–27.
    20 roosevelt’s first words New York
World
, 15 Sept., and New York
Herald
, 14 Sept. 1901; William Loeb, Jr., to author, 28 Feb. 1975 (AC).
    21 Mount Marcy’s cloud banks New York
Herald
and New York
World
, 15 Sept. 1901; Morris,
Edith Kermit Roosevelt
, 214–21.
    22 At about seven o’clock New York
Sun
, 15 Sept. 1901.
    23 Roosevelt did not need Ibid., 15 and 10 Sept. 1901. For an account of the anarchist phenomenon in Europe and America, 1890–1914, see Barbara Tuchman,
The Proud Tower
(New York, 1966), 63–113 .
    24 Personally, Roosevelt TR,
Letters
, vol. 3, 2. Later in the year, he dreamed of doing the same with even bigger game. “We could kill a big grizzly or silver tip with our knives, which would be great sport” (ibid., 91). See also Lloyd C. Griscom,
Diplomatically Speaking
(Boston, 1940), 221–22 .
    25 His larger concern TR specifically cited such social bacteria as William Randolph Hearst, John P. Altgeld, “and to an only less degree, Tolstoy and the feeble apostles of Tolstoy, like Ernest