MEDORA, N.D. -- MEDORA, N.D. (AP) — The day his young wife and mother died, Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his diary that “the light has gone out of my life,” and it was only through extended trips to the isolated Dakota Territory in the 1880s that he regained “the romance" of living. A library examining the country’s 26th president will open next summer in the North Dakota landscape remarkably similar to what Roosevelt would have experienced: far from any city and surrounded by rugged hills beneath a vast sky. The isolation that was so appealing to Roosevelt remains today, and it raises a question. How many people will visit a museum so distant from the rest of America? “I think that’s a calculated risk that is being taken, and I actually think it’s a good one,” said Clay Jenkinson, a public
A Theodore Roosevelt library is opening. Visitors must pack a bag for North Dakota

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