The River of Doubt

 Theodore Roosevelt was an intelligent man who had been president several years in a row. It all went downhill for him in 1912, when he had lost his election to Woodrow Wilson. About two weeks before Election Day, Theodore was shot and luckily was protected by his thick equipment. Theodore had five children, but he mainly talked to his son Kermit, who was very brave and wise, and Theodore was very unhappy and ashamed about his loss of the election so, in 1913-14, he had went to South America to visit his son and go on a trip to an unknown place. Kermit was engaged to Belle Willard before the big trip, and in 1914 she was known as Belle Roosevelt. Theodore had carried Morphine for years over his adventures and also to his trip to the unknown place. When on his journey, Theodore had almost died from malaria (along with most of his men including Kermit), and a bacterial infection he got from cutting his leg on a rock. Theodore also got bit by a snake but if it wasn’t for his thick boots, he would have been dead. One of the porters had gotten so hungry he began to steal food and eventually became chaos for the men on the journey because he had killed one of them. Kermit, his son, was very skilled and had saved his father’s life by carrying him out of the boat and through the rest of the expedition. In the end, Roosevelt had decided to rename the river Rio Roosevelt. On June 4, 1943, Kermit had committed suicide with a gun for some unknown reason.