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Title: Camping with President Roosevelt
Author: John Burroughs
Release Date: July 4, 2009 [EBook #29312]
Language: English
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[Illustration: ARRIVAL AT GARDINER, MONT.
(ENTRANCE TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.)]
CAMPING WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
By JOHN BURROUGHS
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1906 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
Reprinted from The Atlantic Monthly May, 1906
CAMPING WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
BY JOHN BURROUGHS
At the time I made the trip to Yellowstone Park with President Roosevelt in the spring of 1903, I promised some friends to write up my impressions of the President and of the Park, but I have been slow in getting around to it. The President himself, having the absolute leisure