One positive outcome of this plague unpleasantness is I have been able to make a dent in my seemingly always-growing stack of unread books. One of the more enjoyable reading excursions was Roger L. Di Silvestro’s “Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands”. In June 1884, a 24-year old Theodore Roosevelt arrived in the Badlands a broken man. Both his wife and his mother had died just … Continue reading Book Review: “Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands: A Young Politician’s Quest for Recovery in the American West”