There was an interesting story that TR told about some fellows that stole his small boat on the river. TR was rounding up cattle (North Dakota??). He left his men to continue with the cattle and TR went after the thieves.
He caught up to them finally. Walked(?) them back into down. 3 days without sleep. He read some Russian book aloud to stay awake at night.
When he finally made it into town the sheriff wondered why TR didn’t just shoot them instead of going through the ordeal. I forget his reason, but he quipped something like “Well I did torture them reading Tolstoy all night!”