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"Bill Sewall, a famous guide...remained Theodore's friend through life." -Theodore Roosevelt (2018)"He persuaded his old Maine guide and mentor Bill Sewall to join him as ranch manager." -The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told (2010)"Took one look at Ted and guessed that the skinny young man...would never live up to the rigors of life in the wild." -Theodore Roosevelt: Champion of the American Spirit (2003)"In innumerable biographies of the former president, Bill Sewall takes up only a page or two...there was more to the story." -Becoming Teddy Roosevelt (2012)A sickly Harvard student. A Maine Guide. And a friendship that changed a man - who changed a nation. Today we think of Theodore Roosevelt as a larger-than-life figure, but before he became a legendary outdoorsman, Badlands rancher, Rough Rider, trust buster, and political maverick, he was a "thin pale youngster with bad eyes and a weak heart," in the words of William Wingate Sewall, the upcountry Maine woodsman who would become Roosevelt's mentor and lifelong friend. The two met at a crucial time in Roosevelt's life, and Sewall exerted a quiet but profound influence on the man who would become America's twenty-sixth President. This is the untold story of their friendship - and the many adventures they shared. The Elkhorn Ranch was established by Theodore Roosevelt on the banks of the Little Missouri River 35 miles north of Medora, North Dakota in the summer of 1884. Roosevelt hired his old mentor Bill Sewall and Wilmot Dow, two Maine woodsmen, to run the ranch. Sewall and Dow built the ranch house, "a long, low house of logs," in the winter of 1884-1885.The Elkhorn Ranch was Theodore Roosevelt's "main ranch", and his preferred ranch house because it was larger and more private than his Maltese Cross Ranch, established in 1883. Roosevelt particularly enjoyed sitting in the veranda in a rocking chair, reading in the shade of the cottonwood trees. His enjoyment is evident in his books, "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail," "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman," and "The Wilderness Hunter."In the spring of 1886, thieves stole Roosevelt's boat from the Elkhorn Ranch. Hastily, Sewall and Dow built a raft and all three set off downriver to catch the thieves. When they did, Roosevelt kept watch over the three thieves with a shotgun and marched them overland to Dickinson, North Dakota, where he collected a $50 reward.Roosevelt quit the ranch in 1887 after losing 60% of his stock in the starvation winter of 1886-1887, and returned only a handful of times to the badlands after that. He kept a small share of the cattle until 1898 at the outset of the Spanish-American War.
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