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President Roosevelt directs Brander Matthews to The Wilderness Hunter and the first volume of The Winning of the West for “allusions to Cooper’s frontiersmen.” Roosevelt cannot remember where he has made reference to Cooper’s Indians.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-12
Keith Carlson argues that Theodore Roosevelt’s four volume history The Winning of the West retains little value as a historical work and that its importance stems from the insights it grants into the “deeply held personal and political views” of its author. Carlson discusses Roosevelt’s commentary on William Jennings Bryan and Populism, his views on the treatment of Native Americans, and his relationship with the historian Frederick Jackson Turner. Carlson asserts that The Winning of the West is a valuable and under appreciated source of information about Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1994-1995