The complete online text of The Winning of the West, Volume 1 by Theodore Roosevelt.

The persona Theodore Roosevelt projected as, among other things, president of the United States, man of letters, Rough Rider, historian, big-game hunter, and conservationist has come to symbolize the temper of his time. The noted historian Albert J. Beve...

Theodore Roosevelt was a prolific author, the twenty-sixth president of the United States, the first American to win a Nobel Peace Prize, and the only United States president to be awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor. He was a rancher, a hunter, an he...

Theodore Roosevelt was probably America's closest approximation to a man of letters who was also a man of affairs. Roosevelt possessed an extraordinarily strong intellect coupled with the energies and aggressiveness of a Renaissance prince. Such a combin...

A teaching colleague once remarked that encyclopedias possess the same utility as telephone books: They sit largely unused until you need a particular fact or name. That may be true of multivolume works produced years ago, but new and expansive, yet carefully edited,...

When top-ranked West Springfield meets once-beaten Albemarle tonight in the championship of the NewsChannel 8 Keenan Classic, it will be a matchup that many expected. However, their routes to the 8 p.m. final at West Springfield were in extremely unexpected fashions. Albemarle (7-1)...