Theodore Roosevelt and The River of Doubts

Theodore Roosevelt and the River of Doubt
Facts from: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1207799-1,00.html
• Roosevelt got very ill on his expedition trip to Brazilian trip to explore The River of Doubt. He had malaria and a deadly bacterial infection from cutting his leg on a boulder.
• On his trip, he carried a small container containing morphine.
• Roosevelt set sail to South America after failing to regain presidency.
• The trip to The River of Doubt was a way for Roosevelt to regain her purpose and reason in life.
• Roosevelt and his men had to split the food and provisions in half before they started their expedition.
• By the time they reached the rapids of the river, Roosevelt and many other men were very ill, and many had died already.
• Kermit and all other men other than the three that passed away renamed the river Rio Roosevelt
• Roosevelt was the youngest president of his time.
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Facts from: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4986859
• Theodore Roosevelt went on a trip to South America to get away from all the political troubles. On his trip he founded an “unknown river” or the river of doubt
• Roosevelt had a son named Kermit, who lived in South America.
• On his trip he joined forces with Brazil’s most famous explorer, Candido Rondon.
• The challenges the men faced on the trip were deadly rapids, Indian attacks, disease, starvation and murders.
In the first article, the author states that Roosevelt had carried a small bottle of morphine with him at all times. This fact could be true because someone else may have seen it with him, and had reported it to someone else. This fact would be wrong however, because whoever had seen the bottle could have mistaken something else to be morphine. Another reason why the fact could have been wrong is because you could check his medical records, and health.
In the second article, the author states that Roosevelt went on a trip to South America to escape all the political troubles. On his expedition, he found an unknown river. Later on the river became known as The River of Doubts only to be changed to the Rio Roosevelt. These facts could be incorrect because it is said that Roosevelt had gone on the expedition solely to find the river, and explore the area.
Roosevelt was the president of the United States for eight years, and after his presidency, he became pariah. Roosevelt had felt like he failed a lot throughout his life time, so he took a journey to South America to explore the Rive of Doubts. There he suffered from great illness, disease, and many others things. By the time the exploring party reached the river, no one was healthy enough to retrieve samples of the river. With Cherri at his side, Kermit went to Rondon to argue the fact that they could use ropes to descend the dugouts downward into the fall. Rondon disagreed, and thought it was very pointless, but the other men agreed, so he agreed to let them try as well. Roosevelt felt that it was up to him to save his son. He understood that to save his son, he had to allow his son to save him. At the end of the very long and gruesome expedition, Roosevelt, Kermit and all but three men survived to place the river on the map of South America, and rename the river to Rio Roosevelt.