“Roosevelt, more than any other living man... showed the singular primitive quality that belongs to ultimate matter-the quality that mediaeval theology assigned to God-he was pure act.” ~~ Written about Roosevelt by his friend Henry Adams ~~

Theodore Roosevelt was a man of action, and he jammed more activity into a 60 year life than virtually anyone else in American history. He is understood to have read a book a day most of his life.  It's hard to imagine just when that occurred given his penchant for living the strenuous life from dawn to dusk.  A complete timeline of his life is a wearying experience. We've created several complementary timelines of Roosevelt's life in Dakota Territory, as a conservationist, as an adventurer, as a writer and reader, as a player on the stage of world affairs, as the 26th President of the United States.