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Talk About Teddy
Weekly conversations Exploring the world of Theodore Roosevelt https://www.talkaboutteddy.com/
Hosted by Kurt Skinner - military officer, educator, and historian, and by Larry Marple, an educator and historian, who for the past 16 years has brought Theodore Roosevelt to life through historical portrayal
Together each week, we’ll be taking an in-depth look at the life of Theodore Roosevelt – life-long learner, voracious reader, author, adventurer, conservationist, public servant, soldier, statesman, and so much more
TR was arguably our most intellectually curious President, a man of unbridled enthusiasm and unapologetic patriotism, whose strenuous life of public service in the arena continues to inspire us to high ideals
Join us each week at the Talk About Teddy podcast as we chat with authors and historians, Roosevelt scholars, and a wonderful array of individuals and organizations committed to carrying forward the legacy and vision of Theodore Roosevelt
Episodes
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Larry and Kurt are joined by author/historian Doug Ellison, to discuss the known historical record of TR’s experiences in the Badlands as documented in his 2017 book Theodore Roosevelt and Tales Told as Truth of his Time in the West.
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Unlike modern presidents, Theodore Roosevelt does not yet have a presidential library. Instead, his personal and presidential papers are scattered in libraries and other sites across the United States. If only there was an institution whose mission was to gather together and digitize copies of all Roosevelt-related items, to make his legacy more readily accessible to scholars and schoolchildren, enthusiasts and interested citizens. We are fortunate there is such an institution, and that is the mission of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University. Today we’ll be joined by the Director of the TR Center, Dr. Chris O’Brien.
https://www.talkaboutteddy.com/
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Larry and Kurt are joined by author, Rolf Sletten, to discuss his book Roosevelt's Ranches: The Maltese Cross and the Elkhorn
*introductory music "For Her" courtesy of MusicByMisterbates at freesound.org
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Larry and Kurt are joined by acclaimed Western historian, Mark Lee Gardner, to discuss his 2016 book Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill.
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Introductory episode of Talk About Teddy - a weekly conversation exploring the world of Theodore Roosevelt
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Introducing the Talk About Teddy podcast - your source for weekly conversations exploring the world of Theodore Roosevelt
Episode 2 - Rough Riders
Larry and Kurt are joined by Mark Lee Gardner, author of Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill
“Overflowing with intelligently packaged information about Roosevelt and his regiment, massaged into an appealing action-narrative style as instructive alike to enthusiast and newcomer as it is enjoyable to read.” — Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
Buy Mark's book:
Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill
Read Colonel Roosevelt's war memoir online:
Roosevelt, Theodore. The Rough Riders. New York: Collier, 1899., https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000466566
Captured Spanish Bugle
"Then they went straight up the steep, open hillside toward the rifle pits and fortified house on the ridge. 'It was the grandest sight I ever saw,' wrote Second Lieutenant John Greenway to his mother....The first Americans to reach the trenches were Greenway, Roger Fitch, and John Beissel (all Troop G men)...." (pg 170, Rough Riders)
"I can say, Mother, I was the first Rough Rider to reach the summit of this hill...I along with two men from my platoon, captured the first prisoner capt'd by the Regt. I have his trumpet which I took from him and will send [it to] you." (letter excerpt from Lt Greenway to his mother, July 13, 1898)
Inscription reads: "Taken from Spanish Prisoner Captured by Lt. John C. Greenway Roosevelt's Rough Riders San Juan Hill. July 1st 1898.
* Photos courtesy of Michael Rebman, Museum Curator/Manager
City of Las Vegas Museum and Rough Rider Memorial Collection, Las Vegas, New Mexico
Bronco Buster
"The Rough Riders...wished to present the colonel with 'a very slight token of the admiration, love and esteem in which you are held by the officers and men of your regiment.'...a marvelous bronze sculpture of a cowboy on a rearing horse...The Bronco Buster by Frederic Remington...The men had all chipped in to purchase it." (pg 243, Rough Riders)
"'To have such a gift come from this peculiarly American regiment touches me more than I can say. This is something I shall hand down to my children, and I shall value it even more than I do the weapons I carried through the campaign.'...Roosevelt asked the men to line up and file by him so could shake each of their hands. He spoke briefly to each trooper, calling most of them by their first names." (pg 244, Rough Riders)
* pictured on the left: Col. Roosevelt shaking hands with his men - "The Bronco Buster" can be seen on the table (Theodore Roosevelt Collection Roosevelt, Harvard University, R560.3.EL61-098a); "The Bronco Buster" bronze by Frederic Remington at Camp Wikoff, Montauk, NY (Theodore Roosevelt Collection Roosevelt, Harvard University, R560.3.EL61-099); Trophy room at Sagamore Hill, summer home of President Theodore Roosevelt, with bison heads over the mantle. New York Oyster Bay Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, ca. 1910. Aug. 23. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2006676023/. Note bronco Buster on the center table