Excerpt from Good Stories About Roosevelt: The Humorous Side of a Great American Just before entering Harvard, Roosevelt, on the advice of two of his cousins, took a step which had a lasting influence on his life. They sent him down in Maine to their old guide, Bill Sewall of Island Falls. With this born woodsman he learned to know and love the wilderness. There he developed tastes which later led him out into the wild West, to be a ranchman, a hunter, and finally the organizer of the Rough Riders, things which have done so much to shape his fortunes. Besides, he made a lifelong friend of Bill Sewall, as true a one as he could count among all his friendships. Island Falls was then beyond the railway and on the very edge of the immense wild lands of the Pine Tree State. In that village the pale, stoop-shouldered young gentleman from New York made himself at home, and one of the vil lagers has declared' Every one in the Falls liked him, for he was as plain as a spruce board and as square as a brick. He lived like a son in the simple home of the backwoodsman and tramped and camped with Bill as a chum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.