This frozen river holds Roosevelt’s ranch where he shaped his presidency
Snow crunches under boots at the 0.7-mile trail marker. The Little Missouri River lies frozen between rust-colored buttes, silent except for wind through bare cottonwoods. Roosevelt’s cabin foundation sits ahead, stone outlines under snow, unchanged since 1886. This is where the 26th president credited his character to North Dakota’s badlands: “I never would have been … Lire plus









