This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, and we tell stories about everything

here on this show, and our favorite subject, American history.

Though Lyndon Johnson, the 36th president, was a Texan and an absentee rancher with acreage west of Austin,

and though Ronald Reagan, the 40th president, acted in westerns and owned a 68 acre ranch in Santa Barbara County.

Both were more hat than cow.

Theodore Roosevelt, on the other hand, owned two ran cattle in North Dakota and Montana.

He was just 42 years old when he took office in 2001, the youngest president ever. It was the West that

molded Roosevelt into a man. Also, it was where he learned to carry a big stick. Here to tell the

story is Roger McGrath and Michael Blake. McGrath is a regular on our show, a regular contributor

for the History Channel. Michael Blake is a two-time Emmy award-winning makeup artist and a respected film historian.

Here is McGrath and Blake.

Theodore Roosevelt was one of New York's most accomplished, adventurous, self-sacrificing, and patriotic

sons.

A Harvard graduate, author, cattle rancher, war hero, U.S. president,

and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Medal of Honor.

He was a towering American figure, whom sculptor Gutson Borgllam carved into Mount Rushmore alongside Washington, Jefferson,

and Lincoln. Contributing mightily to making Roosevelt into the heroic man he became,

or his days in the Old West. Unfortunately, most Americans today know little about Theodore Roosevelt and next to nothing

about his life on the frontier.

Theodore Roosevelt is born in the heart of New York City in 1858, the second of four children, to a prominent and wealthy family.

It's not the sickly child often portrayed, but energetic and adventurous, although he does

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