Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt

President Theodore Roosevelt's love of natural history is celebrated in two sketches written by renowned naturalist John Burroughs. The friends shared a two-week trip to Yellowstone in the spring of 1903, in order to observe the wildlife and geologic wonders of America's first national park. The desire was to commune with nature, not to hunt. I will not fire a gun in the Park, then I shall have no explanations to make, President Roosevelt said. While they had guides, the president was unacc...