P.S. Should you stop over at Bismarck this fall make a call to the Prison. I should be glad to meet you.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 22: Willis was a great teller of tales. See [Hunting the Grizzly], by Theodore Roosevelt (The Sagamore Series, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 216 ff.), for the most lurid of his yarns.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 23: When Roosevelt came to Helena in 1911, John Willis was one of the crowd that greeted him. Willis clapped Roosevelt on the back familiarly. "I made a man out of you," he cried. Quick as a flash, came Roosevelt's retort: "Yes. John made a man out of me, but I made a Christian out of John."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 24: See [Appendix] for a statement of Roosevelt's cattle investment.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 25: The account of Roosevelt's triumphant return to Medora is taken verbatim from contemporary newspapers.[Back to Main Text]