MANIFEST DESTINY is a sprawling epic of the American West of the 1880s--a biographical novel that dramatizes the true story of the coming of age of Theodore Roosevelt.
Based on memoirs and other writings of the actual participants, this novel is a fascinating study of Roosevelt's growth as seen by several different characters, each of whom has his own opinion of the young dude--and each of whom has his own axe to grind as he watches the little New Yorker contend with cattle ranching, trail drives, round-ups,
big-game hunts, and the swaggering, challenging menace of the Marquis De Mores, principal landowner on the Dakota frontier, pretender to the throne of France, and notorious
killer of many men.
Through the eyes of Roosevelt's contemporaries, the reader sees the frail, asthmatic youth become the robust American legend who, just eighteen years later, would become the youngest and most vigorous president in the history of the United States.
