Word: tahawus
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Down the wilderness trail from the Tahawus Club to North Creek in New York State's Adirondack Mountains a rattletrap huckboard jolted through the night, skidding off ruts, swaying past boulders and tree stumps, creaking and clattering through the silence of the forest. The night was black and misty. The horses were barely under control. The passenger sat tensed and hunched, eyes screwed up behind steel-rimmed spectacles, mouth clenched tight like a steel clamp beneath a prairie-dry mustache, his thoughts projected far out across a new century big with change. "Too fast?" the driver shouted. Theodore Roosevelt...
...McKinley had been shot. He rushed at once to Buffalo, stayed two days. Then, when the President's physicians declared their patient out of danger, the Vice President joined his family in the Adirondacks. As reported by TIME, it was in the Adirondacks, while he was climbing Mount Tahawus Sept. 13. that word reached Roosevelt of McKinley's impending death, which came before Roosevelt reached Buffalo...
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