Roosevelt wrote about 18 books (each in several editions), including his Autobiography, The Rough Riders History of the Naval War of 1812, and others on subjects such as ranching, explorations, and wildlife.
His most ambitious book was the narrative The Winning of the West, which connected the origin of a new "race" of Americans (i.e. what he considered the present population of the United States to be) to the frontier conditions their ancestors endured throughout the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. Published in several editions of three to six volumes.
Theodore Roosevelt published The Winning of the West in four volumes between 1889-1896. The Winning of the West tells the story of the westward expansion of the United States from the Allegheny Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in the late 18th century.
Roosevelt's work is based on government documentation and supported by personal anecdotes of backwoodsmen. He discusses the natural elements of the western frontier as well as the struggles of the backwoodsmen against the Spanish, French and Native Americans, supporting the benefits of aggression in settling the United States.
Table of Contents
Vol. 1. The Spread of English-Speaking Peoples
I. THE SPREAD OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES 17
II. THE FRENCH OF THE OHIO VALLEY, 1763-1775 47
III. THE APPALACHIAN CONFEDERACIES, 1765-1775 71
IV. THE ALGONQUINS OF THE NORTHWEST, 1769-1774 96
V. THE BACKWOODSMEN OF THE ALLEGHANIES, 1769-1774. . . 132
VI. BOONE AND THE LONG HUNTERS; AND THEIR HUNTING IN
NO-MAN'S-LAND, 1769-1774, 172
VII. SEVIER, ROBERTSON, AND THE WATAUGA COMMONWEALTH,
1769-1774 210
VIII. LORD DUNMORE'S WAR, 1774. . 244
Vol. 2 &The Indian Wars, 1784-1787, Franklin, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee
CHAPTER I THE MORAVIAN MASSACRE, 1779-1782 i
CHAPTER II THE ADMINISTRATION OP THE CONQUERED FRENCH SET-
TLEMENTS, 1779-1783 32
CHAPTER III KENTUCKY UNTIL THE END OF THE REVOLUTION, 1782-
1783 * 53
CHAPTER IV THE HOLSTON SETTLEMENTS, 1777-1779 87
CHAPTER V KING'S MOUNTAIN, 1780
CHAPTER VI THE HOLSTON SETTLEMENTS TO THE END OF THE REVO-
LUTION, 1781-1783 186
CHAPTER VII ROBERTSON FOUNDS THE CUMBERLAND SETTLEMENT,
1779-1780 221
CHAPTER VIII THE CUMBERLAND SETTLEMENTS TO THE CLOSE OF THE
REVOLUTION, 1781-1783 255
CHAPTER IX WHAT THE WESTERNERS HAD DONE DURING THE REVO-
LUTION, 1783 274
Vol 3 St. Clair and Wayne & Louisiana and Aaron Burr
CHAPTER I The Northwest Territory; Ohio, 1787-1790 1
CHAPTER II The War in the Northwest, 1787-1790 54
CHAPTER III The Southwest Territory; Tennessee, 1788-1790.. 93
CHAPTER IV St. Clair's Defeat, 1791 117
CHAPTER V Mad Anthony Wayne; and the Fight of the Fallen
Timbers, 1792-1795 174
CHAPTER VI Tennessee Becomes a State, 1791-1796 231