When tracking and locating a bear seemed likely to be fruitless, his hosts wanted to make sure the president got his prey.
In November 1902, President Roosevelt was hunting in the vicinity of Smedes, Mississippi. Citizens appreciated a president committed to what would later be called the doctrine of fair chase, which the Boone and Crockett Club (which Roosevelt helped found in 1888) defines as hunting without an “improper or unfair advantage over the animal.” His act of gallant sportsmanship was memorialized by Washington Post artist Clifford Berryman in a cartoon entitled “Drawing the Line in Mississippi.” Thus depicted, Roosevelt’s kind act caught the fancy of Americans everywhere.
The Teddy Bear (1902) so beloved of children everywhere was named for Theodore Roosevelt after he refused to shoot a defenseless bear on a hunting trip.
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