As President McKinley was Dying, No One Knew Where Vice President Teddy Roosevelt Was. He was in the Wilderness at the Time. He Raced All Night Down the Mountain Roads on a Buckboard Wagon in Pitch Black and Pouring Rains to be Sworn in.
President William McKinley is shaking hands at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, when a 28-year-old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz approaches him and fires two shots into his chest. But did you know that Vice President Roosevelt was in the wilderness then? No one knew where Vice President Teddy Roosevelt […]