Forgotten fragments (#19): Theodore Roosevelt: Halfhearted fisherman, wholehearted hunter
Tweed Roosevelt explores Theodore Roosevelt’s scant record of fishing and why he preferred hunting. Roosevelt details Theodore Roosevelt’s modest record as a fisherman, and he explains how hunting, with its twin attractions of difficulty and danger, appealed to Theodore Roosevelt’s zeal for the strenuous life while the largely sedentary and placid sport of fishing did not. Roosevelt looks at Theodore Roosevelt’s 1917 trip to Florida to harpoon manta rays which was more akin to hunting than fishing, and he highlights some of Roosevelt’s more dangerous hunts like those he undertook during his African safari.
Five photographs and four illustrations accompany the essay.
