A Presidential Tour Unlike Any Other -- The Journey Begins: Pennsylvania to Minnesota -- Old Stomping Grounds: North and South Dakota -- Interlude with Nature: Yellowstone -- Heading East in the West: Montana to Iowa -- Louisiana Purchase Centennial: St. Louis -- Ruffians and Jayhawkers: Missouri and Kansas -- A Cowboy Breakfast: Colorado -- The Southwest: New Mexico -- The Big Ditch: Arizona -- The Golden State: Southern California -- The Golden State: Northern California -- Tramping with Muir: Yosemite -- The Northwest: Oregon and Washington -- In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark: Montana and Idaho -- Once More in the Saddle: Utah and Wyoming -- Last Stops: Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana -- Home and the Horizon -- An American Original -- Cities and Towns Visited.
Summary:
"In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a grand tour of the mid-West and Western states, being careful not to call it a campaign tour, although he intended to seek re-election the following year. Roosevelt was adamant that his speeches be devoid of any partisan rhetoric, nor would he meet solely with Republican office holders in the various cities and towns he visited. He would happily shake hands with a Democratic mayor or senator just as he would a Republican. His speeches, which he wrote himself, covered subjects of good citizenship, a square deal for every man, a strong navy, and the positive aspects of the recent irrigation bill he signed into law. From the Roosevelt Arch in Yellowstone to the cliffs of Yosemite, his grand tour of the West at the turn of the century influenced his second term and the shaping of the American West--and is now the stuff of legend"-- Provided by publisher.
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