Hermann Hagedorn

Hermann Hagedorn
Hermann Hagedorn (1882–1964) was an American author, biographer, and poet, known for his close association with Theodore Roosevelt. He wrote several notable works, including the biography "The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill" and "The Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt." Hagedorn also founded the Theodore Roosevelt Association and worked to preserve Roosevelt's legacy. His writings often reflected a deep admiration for Roosevelt's ideals of patriotism and service.

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SCENE I A room in the Ministry of War in the capital of Iberia. Evening. The minister of war, a tall, stern, bearded man with deep-set eyes and many furrows, is sitting at a large, mahogany desk-table, Left. The chief of staff, silent, motionless and watchful, stands beside him with his hands resting on the table-top. He is thin, old and emaciated, clean-shaven, firm-lipped, and looks startlingly like... more...

It was still the Wild West in those days, the Far West, the West of Owen Wister's stories and Frederic Remington's drawings, the West of the Indian and the buffalo-hunter, the soldier and the cowpuncher. That land of the West has gone now, "gone, gone with lost Atlantis," gone to the isle of ghosts and of strange dead memories. It was a land of vast silent spaces, of lonely rivers,... more...