. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands . for him, and the men who lived withhim in his ill-kept shack, to leave the by horse or foot was impossible. The boatthey owned was a miserable, leaky affair. TheElkhorn skiff had evidently appeared to Finneganand Company in the nature of a godsend. Roosevelts anger boiled up at the theft of theboat and he ran to saddle Manitou. But Sewallrestrained him, pointing out that if the country wasimpassable for the horses of the thieves, it was noless impassable for the horses of the pursuers. Hedeclared that he and Dow could build a flat-bottomed boat in
. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands . for him, and the men who lived withhim in his ill-kept shack, to leave the by horse or foot was impossible. The boatthey owned was a miserable, leaky affair. TheElkhorn skiff had evidently appeared to Finneganand Company in the nature of a godsend. Roosevelts anger boiled up at the theft of theboat and he ran to saddle Manitou. But Sewallrestrained him, pointing out that if the country wasimpassable for the horses of the thieves, it was noless impassable for the horses of the pursuers. Hedeclared that he and Dow could build a flat-bottomed boat in three days. Roosevelt told himto go ahead. With the saddle band — his forty orfifty cow-ponies — on the farther side of the river,he could not afford to lose the boat. But thedetermining motive in his mind was neither chagrinnor anxiety to recover his property. In a countrywhere self-reliant hardihood and the ability to holdones own under all circumstances ranked as thefirst of the virtues, to submit tamely to theft or to. WILMOT DOW AND THEODORE ROOSEVELT(1886)
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