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Roosevelt and Twain’s words

Two separate stories have been combined here. In 1909 Mark Twain wrote an unpublished manuscript calling President Theodore Roosevelt a “ruffian” and “bully” after reports of Roosevelt’s altercation with a 15-year-old rider in Rock Creek Park. Twain’s manuscript does not use the word “psychopath.” Separately, biographer Edmund Morris describes Roosevelt shooting at twigs and stumps while riding in the park; this is a biographer’s account, not part of the girl’s altercation.

сучасна редакційна ілюстрація, створена ШІ за промптом: “Editorial illustration of a turn-of-the-century park path with empty horseback riding trail, a few distant branches and a covered holster on saddle, subdued archival tone, no person, no violence, no text.”

сучасна редакційна ілюстрація, створена ШІ за промптом: “Editorial illustration of a turn-of-the-century park path with empty horseback riding trail, a few distant branches and a covered holster on saddle, subdued archival tone, no person, no violence, no text.”