Auction Date:2012 Jun 20 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Autograph manuscript, in pencil, on an 8.5 x 10.5 sheet, with a partial typed sentence at the top which reads, “order: Mr. Tom Noddy, I; his mare, II. However, I got in at the death this time also.” Roosevelt writes (with several words crossed out and changed), in full: “I was fond of walking and climbing. When As a lad I used to go to the north woods, in Maine, both in fall and winter. There I made life friends of two men, Will Dow and Bill Sewall; I canoed with them, and tramped through the woods with them, visiting the winter logging camps on snow-shoes. Afterward they were with me in the west. Will Dow is dead. Bill Sewall was collector of customs under me, on the Aroostook border. Except when hunting I never did any mountaineering save for a couple of conventional trips up the Matterhorn and the Jungfrau on one occasion when I was in Switzerland." In very good condition, with a couple of rusty paperclip marks to top, a few small pencil notations, and some scattered light creasing, foxing, and soiling.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography was published in 1913. This excerpt is from Roosevelt's handwritten draft of Chapter II: "The Vigor of Life," in which he recounts hunting trips in Maine during the 1870s. Two Maine woodsmen, William Wingate Sewall and Wilmot Dow, were engaged as guides. Sewall admired the plucky 18-year-old youth who was “not remarkably cautious about expressing his opinion.” He was impressed that the young Harvard student “got right in with the people,” becoming friends with woodsmen, lumberjacks and trappers.
In 1884, Roosevelt would take Dow and Sewall west with him to manage his Elkhorn Ranch in the North Dakota Badlands. While they were excellent outdoorsmen and hunters, they hardly qualified as ranch hands. After half of the cattle died, Roosevelt decided to close the ranch in 1887. Dow succumbed to an illness a few years later and Sewall returned to Maine, remaining in contact with Roosevelt. A fantastic manuscript capturing the spirit of the avid outdoorsman, recounting Teddy's formative years hunting in the Maine wilderness.
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