Posted on 06/08/2016 3:06:55 PM PDT by BBell
It was on an earlier trip to the Mississippi Delta during which Teddy Roosevelt's actions would spawn what would become easily his most well-known legacy -- that would be, for better or worse, the introduction of the Teddy bear -- when he famously refused to shoot a captive black bear while hunting in Mississippi in 1902. But some 13 years later, in June 1915, the then-ex-president made a follow-up trip to Louisiana that, while nowhere nearly as well known, or as oft repeated, as that apocryphal Teddy bear tale, proved him to be ten times the sportsman.
"He was clad in hunting costume, khakaline riding trousers, heavy leather leggings, blue flannel shirt, corduroy coat and wore on his head a brown slouch hat," read a newspaper write-up describing his get-up upon stepping off the train in Mississippi on Nov. 13. ""Around his waist was buckled his cartridge belt and at his side hung his ivory-handled hunting knife."
The second Roosevelt trip -- which took place 101 years ago this week -- would also mark a key moment in the protection of wildlife in the Sportsman's Paradise, and in the United States. What's more, a new-fangled motion-picture camera was there to capture it all.
Roosevelt, of course, was famous for his love of the outdoors. Though asthmatic as a child, he refused to surrender to his illness. Instead, he decided he would work to overcome it. So, as legend has it, he set about training his body to become rough, durable -- manly.
In the process, he would become, in addition to a noted soldier and legendary Rough Rider, an avid hunter and naturalist.
Which is what drew the sitting president in November 1902 to Smedes, Miss., a mere speck on the edge of the Yazoo River about 30 miles north of
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In his book “Fear God and Take Your Part,” 1916, Theodore Roosevelt wrote:
“Christianity is not the creed of Asia and Africa at this moment solely because the seventh century Christians of Asia and Africa had trained themselves not to fight, whereas the Moslems were trained to fight.
Christianity was saved in Europe solely because the peoples of Europe fought.
If the peoples of Europe in the 7th and 8th centuries, and on up to and including the 17th century, had not possessed a military equality with, and gradually a growing superiority over the Mohammedans who invaded Europe, Europe would at this moment be Mohammedan and the Christian religion would be exterminated.”
“Wherever the Mohammedans have had complete sway, wherever the Christians have been unable to resist them by the sword, Christianity has ultimately disappeared.
From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Jan Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact that it was able to show that it could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressor.”
AMERICAN MINUTE Archive: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs155/1108762609255/archive/1118952509907.htm
Thank you. Just more reasons to admire the Man.
Hadn’t heard this before. Thanks!
Link to source fails.
And didn’t have any problem open carrying, either.
“”Around his waist was buckled his cartridge belt and at his side hung his ivory-handled hunting knife.”
Cartridge belt..
Thanks. I had no idea the TR was a Christian advocate. Of course this historical fact was not taught in the public junior high and high school I attended 40 years ago.
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