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Title: The Roosevelt book; selections from the writings of Theodore Roosevelt
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Presidents
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons

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d and woundedof the first fight, some had had to go to the hos-pital for sickness and some had been left behindwith the baggage, or were detailed on otherduty. Eighty-nine were killed and wounded:the heaviest loss suffered by any regiment in thecavalry division. The Spaniards made a stifffight, standing firm until we charged home.They fought much more stubbornly than at LasGuasimas. We ought to have expected this, forthey have always done well in holding intrench-ments. On this day they showed themselves to The Battle of San Juan Hill 133 be brave foes, worthy of honor for their gal-lantry. I think we suffered more heavily than theSpaniards did in killed and wounded (thoughwe also captured some scores of prisoners). Itwould have been very extraordinary if the re-verse was the case, for we did the charging;and to carry earthworks on foot with dismount-ed cavalry, when these earthworks are held byunbroken infantry armed with the best modernrifles, is a serious task. HUNTING WILD ANIMALS
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT,fn hunting costume. Taken about 1886. OLD EPHRAIM, THE GRISLY BEAR The king of the game beasts of temperateNorth America, because the most dangerous tothe hunter, is the grisly bear; known to the fewremaining old-time trappers of the Rockies andthe Great Plains, sometimes as Old Ephraimand sometimes as Moccasin Joe—the last inallusion to his queer, half-human footprints,which look as if made by some misshapen giant,walking in moccasins. Bear vary greatly in size and color, no lessthan in temper and habits. Old hunters speakmuch of them in their endless talks over thecamp-fires and in the snow-bound winter huts.They insist on many species; not merely theblack and the grisly, but the brown, the cinna-mon, the gray, the silver-tip, and others withnames known only in certain localities, such asthe range bear, the roach-back, and the smut-face. But, in spite of popular opinion to thecontrary, most old hunters are very untrust-worthy in dealing with points of natural hi

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