"Nooner"
Teddy Rossevelt & Cunninghame
Oil, 12x16"
Price on request
Towards the end of 1909, Theodore Roosevelts
massive East African safari had reached Lake Naivasha.
Hunting rhino was on TRs mind when
he and his guide, R.J. Cunninghame decided to take a respite
from the heat of the day. They off-saddled their horses and sat
down to have lunch in the shade of a huge acacia tree.
TR wrote in his journal: The huge
thorn tree, which stood by itself, lonely and beautiful, offered
a shelter from the blazing sun. The game was grazing on every
side; and I kept thinking of all the life of the wilderness,
and of its many tragedies, which the great tree must have witnessed
during the centuries since it was a seedling.
When lunch was over TR and Cunninghame
loaded their heavy rifles and headed out towards where they had
seen rhino.
The complete story will be in Volume
II of Seerey-Lesters book, Legends of the Hunt
Campfire Tales, due to be published in 2012.
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