THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S LETTER TO CAPTAIN McDONALD
A Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Captain McDonald
The White House,
Washington.
December 19, 1908.
My dear Captain: I am glad you are to publish your memorials. I shall always look back with pleasure to our wolf-hunt in Oklahoma. Yours has been a most interesting life. You are one of the few men now living who served in that warfare against crime and on behalf of order, which has well-nigh passed away with the old frontier conditions which called it into being. For a number of years you were deputy sheriff, or deputy marshal, or representative of the cattlemen's associations, employed by them to put a stop to cattle stealing and robbery under arms, and you served for twenty years in that unique body, the Texas Rangers. It is a career which henceforth it will be difficult to parallel.
With all good wishes, believe me,
Sincerely yours,
Theodore Roosevelt.
CAPTAIN BILL McDONALD, TEXAS RANGER