Theodore Roosevelt’s Presidential Library Comes to Life in North Dakota

This is not your father’s presidential library.

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Theodore Roosevelt at Washington, D.C., 1914. Via Wikimedia Commons

MEDORA, North Dakota — When you come into the Badlands — as opposed to the approach to the Rocky Mountains — the ground dramatically dips. It’s here that you can experience the same views that a 24-year-old Theodore Roosevelt found when he arrived in 1883, determined to kill a buffalo and experience the American West, which he understood was quickly disappearing.

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