The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

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horses, and the President partook of lunch at the niess wagon.
The only disappointment of the day was the failure of the
prize bucking horse of that section to perform. This horse
has a record as a champion backer, but on this occasion he
was as gentle as a kitten. At the conclusion of the exercises
the cowboys formed an escort to the train, and after it had
started they dashed alongside the President's car and he
shook hands with many of them from the window.
WELCOME AT NEWCASTLE
At Newcastle, Wyo., where a half-hour stop was made
early in the day, the President was escorted to the speaker's
stand along a pathway strewn with flowers and lined on one
side by school children who waved miniature flags and seemed
to enjoy the President's speech as much as their elders. In
his address President Roosevelt said he wished publicly to
express his acknowledgment for the way in which the Wyo-
ming senators and congressmen had cooperated with him in
Washington. He referred to the irrigation law passed at the
last session of Congress, said he believed much good would
come of it, as the government would be able to undertake
enterprises which would be beyond the power of private capi-
tal, but that the government would be able to try experiments
from the result of which capital would be able to learn much.
At Crawford, Neb., the President was given a military wel-
come. Here he spoke a few words of greeting to the sol-
diers and also spoke briefly to the large crowd that had
gathered at his car. Stops were also made during the day at
Gillette and Moorcroft, Wyo., and Ardmore, S. D. The
President went on Sunday, April 26th, to Grand Island, Neb.,
and on Monday morning broke ground for the new Carnegie
Library at that place. At Hastings he made an address from