Bill Sewall's Story Of Theodore Roosevelt (T.R)

INTRODUCTION OF all explorers in strange and half-dis covered countries, the historian is the most eagerand indomitable to follow rivers to their sources in the hills. Each quotcrickquot is impor tant to him, and the ultimate spring where it bubbles up from the ground has to him some of the glory of the wide and majestic river whose origin it is. Historians, seeking one after the other for centuries to come to explore the mysteries of the paradoxical career of Theodore Roosevelt, will have more to say of William Wingate Sewall than his Maine neighbors or even the statesmen, scientists, and men of letterswho drew him into their councils, when the time came for choosing a national memorial to a great President, are likely now to realize. For quotBillquot Sewall was guide, philosopher and friend to Theodore Roosevelt in that period in his life when a man s character, emerging