#Hunting Trips of a Ranchman

[deadpresidents]

Which president/s do you think probably had a close encounter with a grizzly at least once in their lives?

To highlight what I was saying earlier about the questions I'm asked, this is closer to being stupid or annoying, but still isn't either of those things. It's just a weird question that I would seemingly not be able to give any sort of answer to because why would there ever be any record of an encounter between a President of the United States and a grizzly bear?

BUT...we have had many Presidents who were avid hunters and/or fishermen throughout their lives, and Theodore Roosevelt is at the top of that list. And since he somehow wrote roughly 18 million books about 13 million different subjects in his "down time", we know for a fact that Theodore Roosevelt encountered a grizzly bear because he wrote about killing one while hunting in his book, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, which was originally published in 1885! I don't know about any other Presidential summits with grizzly bears, but I'm told certain segments of our population consider William Howard Taft a bear of sorts.

[rarebookman]

First Edition Thick quarto (8' x 11') in publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered and decorated leather labels on the front cover and the spine, a bear stamped in black on the rear cover. Copy #957 of 1000 copies SIGNED by the author below the frontispiece portrait of him standing proudly in his Rough Rider uniform. Comprises two earlier books, HUNTING TRIPS OF A RANCHMAN and THE WILDERNESS HUNTER. With 55 illustrations by Remington, Frost, Beard, and others. Slight wear. Near Fine housed in a specially made cloth slipcase