“By Godfrey, but this is fun!”
March 14, 2021
Theodore Roosevelt once spent two weeks hunting buffalo in the Dakota Badlands during intense heat and driving rain. One day of that trip, in particular, was riddled with many trials. He sustained a deep gash in his forehead when his horse reared up without warning. While crawling on his belly to get a shot at an animal, he accidentally placed his hand on a cactus and received a fistful of spines. Then later that day, he and his guide were…