Theodore Roosevelt was a dynamic
person, whether he was a colonel leading the Rough Riders, a hunter
and adventurer, or the President of the United States. The following
is taken from the Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt,
an excerpt where he is found to be deserted by his mountain guide,
but continues the hunt regardless …
...the only narrow escape I met with was not from one of these dangerous African animals, but from a grizzly bear. It was about twenty-four years ago. I had wounded the bear just at sunset, in a wood of lodge-pole pines, and, following him, I wounded him again, as he stood on the other side of a thicket. He then charged through the brush, coming with such speed and with such an irregular gait that, try as I would, I was not able to get the sight of the rifle on the brain-pan, though I hit him very hard with both the remaining barrels of my magazine Winchester.
