| Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1925 - 568 ˹éÒ
...smashup all through the cattle country of the northwest. The losses are crippling. For the first tune I have been utterly unable to enjoy a visit to my ranch. I shall be glad to get home. The scrap of paper you enclosed me contains some excellent ideas, which... | |
| Paul Grondahl - 2004 - 500 ˹éÒ
...wrote to Lodge, after witnessing the devastation firsthand for the first time in the spring of 1887. "The losses are crippling. For the first time I have...been utterly unable to enjoy a visit to my ranch. I shall be glad to get home." 47 In all, Roosevelt's losses in the Badlands totaled about $40,000,... | |
| John Arthur Garraty - 2007 - 188 ˹éÒ
...cattle country of the northwest," he wrote to his friend Congressman Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. "The losses are crippling. For the first time I have...been utterly unable to enjoy a visit to my ranch. I shall be glad to get home." He did not dispose of his property until 1897, but after April, 1887,... | |
| Paul M. Rego - 2008 - 256 ˹éÒ
...Roosevelt lost about 60 percent of his cattle by the spring of 1887. "The losses are crippling," he wrote. "For the first time I have been utterly unable to enjoy a visit to my ranch. I shall be glad to get home." In all, Roosevelt lost about $40,000 in the Badlands. This was approximately... | |
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