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Dakota

Dakota
By Matt Braun

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Teddy Roosevelt’s wife and mother died on the same night in his home in New York City. To outdistance his grief, he turned his back on a promising political career and fled to the badlands. Dakota deals with the restoration of his spirit during this little known time in his life in the midst of a thrilling adventure in the Wild West.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #851832 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-08-30
  • Released on: 2005-08-30
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Mass Market Paperback
  • 336 pages

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"Matt Braun is one of the best!"
-- Don Coldsmith, author of The Spanish Bit Series

"He tells it straight-and he tells it well."
-- Jory Sherman, author of Grass Kingdom

"Matt Braun is a master storyteller of frontier history."
-- Elmer Kelton, author of Pumpkin Rollers

"Matt Braun is head and shoulders above all the rest who would attempt to bring the gunmen of the Old West to life."
-- Terry C. Johnston, author of The Plainsmen series

From the Back Cover
HE CAME WEST HAUNTED BY DEATH AND GRIEF...
In 1884, a Harvard-educated legislator from New York set off for Dakota Territory. Staggered by the deaths of his mother and wife on the same tragic night, Teddy Roosevelt was returning to a place he had visited the year before, a place that had struck him with its fierce beauty and its bounty of big game and big opportunity. By the Little Missouri River, Teddy Roosevelt established a ranching empire, and soon stood at the center of a storm...

AND ON A VIOLENT LAND, HE WAS REBORN...
Less than a decade after an Indian rebellion and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Dakota was being settled by the brave, the ambitious, and the restless. While some men were grabbing power, some were getting away with murder. For Roosevelt, using local cowboys and transplanted Easterners as his ranch hands, this was a place to make his mark, to make a stand and to look a killer in the eye. And this was a time to bring wild Dakota into the heart of America...

"Matt Braun is a master storyteller of frontier history."
--Elmer Kelton

"Matt Braun is head and shoulders above all the rest who would attempt to bring the gunmen of the old west to life."--Terry C. Johnston, author of The Plainsmen series

About the Author

MATT BRAUN is a fourth generation Westerner, steeped in the tradition and lore of the frontier era. His books reflect a heritage rich with the truths of that bygone time. Raised among the Cherokee and Osage tribes, Braun learned their traditions and culture, and their philosophy became the foundation of his own beliefs. Like his ancestors, he has spent most of his life wandering the mountains and plains of the West. His heritage and his contribution to Western literature resulted in his appointment by the Governor of Oklahoma as a Territorial Marshal.

Braun is the author of forty-seven novels and four nonfiction works, including Black Fox, which was made into a CBS miniseries. Western Writers of America awarded Braun the prestigious Spur Award for his novel The Kincaidsand the 2004 Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement in Western Literature.

Visit Matt Braun at www.mattbraun.com

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Matt Braun is my favorite western author. His ability to bring the likes of John Hardin and Dr. Holiday back to life within the pages of his books is amazing. It is/was in that spirit I ordered this book.

Dakota is about the time Theodore Roosevelt spent in the Dakota territory after the death of his first wife, the conflict between Roosevelt and De Mores and several incidents that occurred the Dakota's that would help form the man Roosevelt became latter in life.

In short a time period that was full potential, adventure and historically available documentation. There was so much that Matt Braun could have done with this. Yet Roosevelt comes across as a caricature. He is never fully fleshed out nor was I ever even remotely drawn in to the man's being.

It is a sad thing that Mr. Braun was not able to bring Theodore Roosevelt to life as he had done with other characters.