Theodore Roosevelt's Night Ride to the Presidency (Adirondack Museum Monographs Book 2)

35 pp. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt vacationing in the Adirondack Mountains when President William McKinley was dying. Shortly before midnight Roosevelt began the long, rough ride by buckboard to the nearest train station at North Creek. The third driver of the relay team learned that McKinley had died, but did not tell Teddy Roosevelt. The whole trip by buckboard took six hours to reach the train station.