How Theodore Roosevelt Rode from the Badlands to the White House

Before he became president, Theodore Roosevelt remade himself on the western frontier. From a frail Harvard student to a hardened cowboy in the Dakota Badlands, this is the powerful origin story of the man who would rise to lead a nation. This is the exciting story of a physically challenged young man from Harvard who came to the western frontier in 1883. It was in the Badlands of Dakota where young Roosevelt became a cowboy and learned about democracy and the American West.