this part of the badland madora north, the north pole. the air at night you get the you see the north star and the whole sky is like a planetarium, the sunsets are miraculous. one of the eastbound viernal things i'm interested in hopefully the obama will do more to protect the little missouri river, the river roosevelt loved by his ranch there. prairie lands and too often we haven't treasured the american prairies but the interior of the united states, the midwest and great plains is a part of the country that i personally feel happiest in more than the coast. >> in and around doing this book you published several other books and articles, jury book on katrina came out when? >> that came out 2006. zplchblth had you been working on this book? >> i was. i have been working on this book for a long time. i have been collecting, roosevelt's papers are divided up at harvard where wallace daily helped me a great deal. library of congress has his papers on microfiche, we're looking at a man who wrote over 150,000 letters. and what is traditionall

then the 1912 presidential race, and the reason i get to that because out of madora, i remember seeing the shirt with the bullet hole in it. >> yes. >> that is an assassination attempt, what is the story? >>> roosevelt running as the third party candidate against wood row wilson and william taft. he went to give a speech m milwaukee and a crazed anarchist took a shot at him he was bleeding. he had such bad eyesight, roosevelt, he had always carried bird glasses with him in his pocket, and he had thick script in their papers and he had his case with his byrd, so he could see the color ration details and that is what the bullets hit. wounded him terribly but there is some thinking if it had not gone through the bird watching glasses, he would have died, but here he is bleeding, shot, and tr -- it will take more than that to kill a bull moose. keeps going, and much like when ronald reagan was shot in march of 1981 the public opinions, it become a folklore moment. the bull mooser couldn't be knocked down, he lost, obviously, it was the most successful third party run ever, but the folklore