Excerpt from North Dakota of Today This book is North Dakota's tribute to the memory of Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt - the dedication of which appears on another page. North Dakota people will never forget the great man who lived in their midst during the early, and romantic period of the State's history - when the prairies resounded with the stamping of thousands upon thousands of herds of bison, and the plains re-echoed with the merry pranks of the cowboys - he is too deeply enshrined in their hearts for that. Colonel Roosevelt paid North Dakota the greatest compliment when he said: "That if it had not been for his experiences in North Dakota, he never would have become President of the United States." And always in his heart he treasured a fond remembrance for North Dakota. When in April, 1918, the writer was compiling the early history of the state, and wrote to him asking for the loan of his photograph to head chapter: "Roosevelt In North Dakota," he not only...