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History Unplugged Podcast

When Teddy Roosevelt Arrested Three Boat Thieves

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps no president has as many unbelievable stories about his life than Teddy Roosevelt. He was an amateur boxer. He was the first American politician to learn judo. He summited the Matterhorn during his honeymoon. He joined an expedition to log data about an unchartered river in the Amazon. But perhaps no story matches his pursuit of three boat thieves in the Dakotas in the 1880s. Learn how Roosevelt travelled 300 miles in the bitter cold to arrest three thieves… all to prove to other ranches that he wasn’t a week Easterner who came out to to the frontier to play cowboy. TO HELP OUT THE SHOW Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher

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0:00.0

War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding right down to the present.

0:06.2

Wars made the United States independent, kept it together, increased its size, and established it as a global superpower.

0:13.2

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0:17.6

In each episode I discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's Wars.

0:23.2

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0:36.1

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0:46.0

Join me, Mark Vinet, on this exciting, fascinating epic journey through time,

0:51.1

focusing on the compelling, wonderful, and tragic stories of North America's inhabitants, heroes, villains, leaders, environment, and geography.

1:01.4

I invite you to come along for the ride.

1:06.5

Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast, the unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes,

1:13.0

Mythbust's historical lies, and rediscoveres the forgotten stories that changed our world.

1:19.6

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

1:27.6

The days topic is, when Theodore Roosevelt arrested three both thieves.

1:33.7

When Theodore Roosevelt died, upon hearing the news of his death,

1:37.6

Thomas Marshall, who was the governor of Indiana, and later the vice president of the United States, said

1:43.4

death had to take him in a sleep, or if he was awake, there'd have been a fight.

1:48.4

This episode is the first of a three-part series about incredible stories about Theodore Roosevelt.

1:53.9

The reason I thought this topic married a discussion is because I don't think there's a president

1:58.8

where you can find as many unbelievable stories as Theodore Roosevelt.

2:03.2

Just to fire off a few of them, he was a New York City police commissioner, he won the Nobel Prize,

2:09.7

a boxing accident virtually left him blind in one eye, and it happened because he had been

2:14.4

sparring since college, but continued to fight in the basement of the White House and would fight

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