
Travis Austin
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Travis Austin
@TravisAustinWV
2010 Turkey Trot Stroller Division Champion.









Roosevelt didn't just visit the Badlands. He worked them. He rode sixteen-hour days in the saddle during roundups. He ate meals standing up, slept on the ground, and was back on his horse before dawn. He was the only cowboy on the roundup wearing spectacles — functionally blind without them — and he wore them anyway, refusing to let his body's limitations define what he could do. The experienced cowboys, who had initially dismissed him as a soft easterner, came to respect him. Not because he matched their skill — he never did — but because he never quit. He fell off horses. He got lost. He came back covered in bruises and kept going. Joe Ferris, his hunting guide from that first 1883 trip, said it best: "He had grit. No man with grit ever wants to give up, even if he's down." That's the T.R. story the Library tells. Not the Mount Rushmore version — the real one. The one about a man who built himself from scratch in a place that demanded everything he had. The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opens July 4 in Medora. trlibrary.com/visit #TheodoreRoosevelt #TRLibrary #Medora #NorthDakota #AmericanHistory #Leadership #Badlands #OpeningJuly4











Wow! The PAC’s are super busy😡 All of this out of state money for little ‘ol Greenbrier County in WV. I am sick of it! Outsiders should not be influencing our elections. #WVGOP

























