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Title: Camping with President Roosevelt

Author: John Burroughs

Release Date: July 4, 2009 [EBook #29312]

Language: English

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[Illustration: ARRIVAL AT GARDINER, MONT.

(ENTRANCE TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.)]

CAMPING WITH
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

By JOHN BURROUGHS

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1906
BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

_Reprinted from
The Atlantic Monthly
May, 1906_

CAMPING WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

BY JOHN BURROUGHS

At the time I made the trip to Yellowstone Park with President
Roosevelt in the spring of 1903, I promised some friends to write up
my impressions of the President and of the Park, but I have been slow
in getting around to it. The President himself, having the absolute
leisure and peace of the White House, wrote his account of the trip
nearly two years ago! But with the stress and strain of my life at
"Slabsides,"--administering the affairs of so many of the wild
creatures of the woods about me,--I have not till this blessed season
found the time to put on record an account of the most interesting
thing I saw in that wonderful land, which, of course, was the
President himself.

A STORM CENTRE

When I accepted his invitation I was well aware that during the
journey I should be in a storm centre most of the time, which is not
always a pleasant prospect to a man of my habits and disposition. The
President himself is a good deal of a storm,--a man of such abounding
energy and ceaseless activity that he sets everything in motion around
him wherever he goes. But I knew he would be pretty well occupi