. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands . rom the depot by the greater part of themale population, on the general principle that anofficer of the law was out of place in Medora what-ever his mission might be; and put on board thenext train going east. In all the turmoil, the Marquis was in his was never a participant in the hilarity and hewas never known to take a drink except thewine he drank with his meals. He kept his distanceand his dignity. But he regarded the lawlessnessmerely as part of frontier life, and took no steps tostop it. Roosevelt was too young and untested amember of the commu
. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands . rom the depot by the greater part of themale population, on the general principle that anofficer of the law was out of place in Medora what-ever his mission might be; and put on board thenext train going east. In all the turmoil, the Marquis was in his was never a participant in the hilarity and hewas never known to take a drink except thewine he drank with his meals. He kept his distanceand his dignity. But he regarded the lawlessnessmerely as part of frontier life, and took no steps tostop it. Roosevelt was too young and untested amember of the community to exert any openinfluence during those first weeks of his active lifein the Bad Lands. It remained for the ex-baseballplayer, the putative owner of a stage-line that re-fused to materialize, to give the tempestuous littlecommunity its first faint notion of the benefits oforder. Packard, as editor of the Bad Lands Cowboy,had, in a manner entirely out of proportion to hispersonal force, or the personal force that any other. A. T. PACKARD
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