There is something compelling and beautiful about this image; a 1886 photo provided by the Library of Congress via the Theodore Roosevelt Center in North Dakota. Shown are Wilmot Dow, left, Theodore Roosevelt, center, and William Wingate Sewall, right. Perhaps it is because they seemed to feel themselves to be bears. Rough Riders and Renegades, true. But they created the parks. Sadly they wore the skins of bears. Happy we have alternatives to keep us warm today.
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