First article facts

·         Roosevelt youngest President

·         He was 55 when he went on a trip into the rain forest

·         He cared a vile of morphine

·         He help rediscovered the river of doubt   

·         Had become a feverish, at times delirious, and invalid. He was suffering from malaria and had developed a potentially deadly bacterial infection after slicing his leg on a boulder.

·         sending his temperature soaring to 105°F

·         he was a 2 term president

·         his son was on these trip

·         The seven battered and leaking dugout canoes that they had bought from local tribesmen sat just inches above the water and proved lethally difficult to maneuver. Below them swam 15-ft.-long black caimans and razor-toothed piranhas

·         One night a coral snake slithered from under a fallen tree and sank its fangs into Roosevelt's foot. But for his thick leather boots, he would have died an agonizing death.

·          A group of indigenous tribesmen attacked a member of their group and killed his dog

·         They tried to become friends with these people witched worked out

·         One of the men were murder

·         The last thing in their way was a series of six waterfalls

·         The tallest was 30ft high

·         Roosevelt son Kermit who was a bridges builder and was every skilled with ropes can up with a way to lower all of them down the six falls  

·         Kermit and all but three men would survive to place the river--renamed the Rio Roosevelt--on the map of South America. Roosevelt never fully recovered his health, but he refused any regret

Article #2

·         Teddy Roosevelt, a born winner, was on a losing streak in 1913 when an invitation came to speak in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The former president had just suffered a humiliating election defeat and needed to get away

·         A trip to South America, where his son Kermit lived, seemed like just the thing to take Roosevelt's mind off his political troubles

·         Roosevelt was five feet eight inches tall, about average height for an American man in the early twentieth century, weighed more than two hundred pounds, and had a voice that sounded as if he had just taken a sip of helium.

·         Roosevelt was proving to be dangerous competition for the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson.

·         Had posted a no more tickets sign, but brokers and street-corner salesmen had continued to do a brisk business. Dollar seats went for as much as seven dollars roughly $130 in today's money and the priciest tickets in the house could set the buyer back as much as a hundred dollars. On the chaotic black market.

·         More than two thousand people tried to make it into the arena by bypassing the line and driving to the gate in a hired carriage or one of Henry Ford's open-air Model T's. But this tactic did not work for everyone. Even Roosevelt's own sister Corinne was turned away at the gate.

·         Theodore Roosevelt, the object of the entire furor, had nearly as much trouble trying to reach Madison Square Garden as his sister. The police had blocked off Twenty-seventh Street from Madison to Fourth Avenue.

·         A New York Sun reporter marveled at the chaos as swarms of people rushed Roosevelt's car, “yelling their immortal souls out. They went through a battery of photographers, tried to sweep the cops off their feet, tangled, jammed and shoved into the throng.”

·         Roosevelt, a little stiff in his black suit, stepped out of the car, raised his hat to the crowd, and walked through a narrow, bucking pathway that the policemen had opened through the suffocating press of bodies.

·         Even as he stood on the stage at Madison Square Garden, he knew that in six days he would lose not only the election but also this bright, unblinking spotlight. He would be reviled by many and then ignored by all, and that would be the worst death he could imagine.

·         Woodrow Wilson took the White House in a landslide victory, winning 2.2 million more votes than Roosevelt out of the fifteen million cast.

·         Roosevelt had never been willing to share his private pain with the public. In a formal statement, he announced, "I accept the result with entire good humor and contentment." In private, however, he admitted to being surprised and shaken by the scope of his crushing defeat.

·         Had been born into New York's highest society. From childhood.

·         During the Spanish-American War, he had been glorified as a courageous colonel of his own regiment Roosevelt's Rough Riders. And as president of the United States for nearly eight years, he had been at the apex of power and prestige. Now, for the first time in his life, he was a pariah, and he was painfully aware of it.

Article #3

·         Sailing out of the New York harbor

·         Would be the hardest test of his notoriously strenuous life.

·         Petitioned by old friend and aspiring explorer Father John Zahm to join him on a South American river adventure. 

·         The change in plans came as a shock both to Brazilian officials as well as the American Museum of Natural History, which was sponsoring the expedition.

·         Usual Amazonian combination of dangers and disease.

·         but most certainly potentially hostile Indian tribes.

·         It quickly became clear that the inexperienced Father Zahm was not capable of organizing this new expedition, and a new guide was sought out.

·         Colonel Cândido Rondon.  Rondon was a well-known and highly respected military officer known who had for years been leading an effort to install telegraph wires across the Amazon.

·         Accepted that no man was more familiar with the Amazon and her dangers.

·         It would take them at least two months just to reach the headwaters of the river.

·         The final members that were to make up the Roosevelt-Rondon River of Doubt expedition included Roosevelt, his son Kermit, Rondon, his assistant Lyra, the team physician Dr. Cajazeira, and naturalist George Cherrie.

·         Expedition was no longer just a journey into the unknown; it had now become a race against time.

Summary

Theodore Roosevelt lost the race for is three term in office. After this he wants on exportation to South America. He traveled to the river of doubt, there were running low on supply. After a murder of one of his men the team was scared and tired. Roosevelt almost got bitten by a venomous snake. He became sick and told his son to carry on without him. But his son didn’t and saved himself and Roosevelt. Roosevelt never regains his full and complete health. These is what happen in South America.