...RR 1907 TEDDY ROOSEVELT ERA BEAR Collectible Postcard..

Theodore Roosevelt was the nation's twenty-sixth president. He served from 1900 to 1909. Although he was born in New York City, Roosevelt developed a strong affinity for nature, the outdoors and exercising "strenuously." One of Roosevelt's enduring legacies is conservation and the protection of land. Throughout his life, Roosevelt was a hunting enthusiast. During a hunt in Mississippi in 1902, Roosevelt was unable to find a bear to shoot. Some of his companions finally found an old sickly bear and tied it to a tree for Roosevelt to kill. Roosevelt's refusal to kill that bear (though he had his aides subsequently put it down) was caricatured by Clifford K. Berryman in a political cartoon which then spawned the teddy bear named after Theodore Roosevelt, along with thousands of artist and cartoonist renderings, books, posters and novelties of a famed Roosevelt Themed Bear.

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