You can read his 1899 best-seller, " The Rough Riders, " online at www . bartleby . com / 51, along with many of Roosevelt's other works : " Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, " an account of Western trips he took soon after his first wife died; " Letters to His Children "; " Through the Brazilian Wilderness " ( a seven-part film of that trip, complete with piranhas, can be played at the Library of Congress site ); " New York, " a short history of the early days of the city; and, perhaps most tellingly, a short work called " The Strenuous Life ."
