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...he was a rich east cost kid. typical WASP, in the beginning it was more playing the hard westerner because he came from new york what was maybe a dishonour in his own eyes.
it seems fashion and attitude were typical for the time.

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Theodore Roosevelt grew up an asthmatic, bespectacled, sickly child. He barely survived adolescence, which likely contributed greatly to his later 'overcompensations'.

By all accounts the scrappy (he was an avid boxer) 'Easterner' impressed the 'locals' when he went to the Dakotas as a young adult and earned the respect of the rough and ready types. Many of the men that he met while 'out west' would later eagerly join with Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' and followed his command at Kettle Hill in the San Juan Heights of Spanish Cuba.

'The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt' (by Edmund Morris) is a good read.


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