[Ben Towe]

I suggest Edmund Morris' three volume biography of Roosevelt if you haven't read them (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and Colonel Roosevelt). Men of his time and class were generally prolific hunters. He was almost correct about the loss of game to future generations. Men still live who can remember a time when there were few deer and turkey in this part of the country. In my lifetime we've seen the reintroduction of elk in Kentucky and a few other eastern states. Roosevelt himself saw the near extinction of the buffalo.