TR’s Published Books

Theodore Roosevelt was a prolific reader and writer from a young age, maintaining journals as a boy and writing speeches, articles, and books as an adult. The following is a chronological list of his published works:

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Year Title
1877 The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, N.Y. (with H.D. Minot)
1882 The Naval War of 1812
1885 Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
1887 Thomas Hart Benton
1888 Essays on Practical Politics
1888 Gouverneur Morris
1888 Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail
1889 The Winning of the West, Volumes 1 and 2
1891 New York
1893 The Wilderness Hunter
1893 American Big-Game Hunting (with George Bird Grinnell)
1894 The Winning of the West, Volume 3
1895 Hero Tales from American History (with Henry Cabot Lodge)
1895 Hunting in Many Lands: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club (with George Bird Grinnell)
1896 The Winning of the West, Volume 4
1897 American Ideals and Other Essays
1897 Some American Game
1897 Trail and Camp-Fire (with George Bird Grinnell)
1899 The Rough Riders
1900 Oliver Cromwell
1900 The Strenuous Life
1902 The Deer Family (with T.S. Van Dyke, D.G. Elliot, and A.J. Stone)
1904 Presidential Addresses and State Papers, Volumes 1 and 2
1905 Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
1905 The Winning of the West, Volume 4
1907 Good Hunting: In Pursuit of Big Game in the West
1909 Outlook Editorials
1910 African and European Addresses
1910 African Game Trails
1910 American Problems
1910 The New Nationalism
1910 Presidential Addresses and State Papers, Volumes 3 and 4
1912 The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood
1912 Realizable Ideals
1913 An Autobiography
1913 History as Literature and Other Essays
1913 Progressive Principles
1914 Through the Brazilian Wilderness
1915 Life-Histories of African Game Animals, Volumes 1 and 2 (with Edmund Heller)
1915 America and the World War
1916 A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open
1916 Fear God and Take Your Own Part
1917 The Foes of Our Own Household
1917 National Strength and International Duty
1918 The Great Adventure
1919 Letters to His Children