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...make his life count for something larger than his own interests sent him into writing and politics and the study of history. Indeed, even as he settled into married life with Alice and attended Columbia Law School, T.R. turned back to nature. He eventually bought two ranches in the Dakota Territory, where he could raise cattle to sell to the Eastern markets and at the same time retreat for health-giving hunts when his life in the East permitted...
...Valentine's Day 1884, less than four years after Roosevelt's wedding, his mother and wife die within hours of each other, in the same house. His first child, Alice, is just two days old. That summer he flees to Dakota to mourn, staying for two years (and acquiring a second ranch, Elkhorn), while his sister Bamie rears Alice. During this time, work is completed on Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt's spacious home in Oyster Bay, N.Y., which will serve as the summer White House from...
...descendant of a wealthy old New York family. In an age of robber barons and their heaped-up millions, Roosevelt's net worth was modest compared with theirs, and as a young man, he lost considerable money in his disastrous attempt to become a cattle rancher in the Dakota Badlands. But all his life he moved easily in a world that dressed for dinner. When he led the Rough Riders, it was in a uniform from Brooks Brothers...
...climate, however, has changed considerably. In 2005 a resolution was passed by the state senate in North Dakota, Maris's home state, to recognize Maris as baseball's single-season home run champ, and Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan has sponsored a similar resolution in the U.S. Senate, citing the ongoing steroids scandal. "Some of us think [Maris's] home run record still stands," Dorgan said during Commerce Committee hearings last year on steroids and baseball, "and that is a sad comment on baseball." Appearing before the committee, Sosa denied using steroids, and McGwire refused to answer questions about steroid...
...these folks are on the juice, and I believe they are, then Roger should get his record back," said Joel Heitamp, a North Dakota state senator, last year. Maris, Jr., said he wasn't sure what should happen should baseball officials determine that the three men who eclipsed his father's record were using performance-enhancing drugs at the time...