Word: pathless
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...American success story. One of them ought to have seen this, and that someone, McCullough implies, should have been Teddy. In the Badlands of Dakota, while recovering from the deaths (on the same day) of his mother and first wife Alice Lee, Teddy, at 25, wrote of "melancholy pathless plains" and "deathlike stillness"-the moral geography of Edgar Allan Poe. Here he came as close as he ever would to confessing to his demons...