Theodore Roosevelt Summary

Theodore Roosevelt lost his third election running for president on November 5, 1912 to Woodrow Wilson, he then spent the winter in Sagamore Hill with his wife and daughter. The year after, him and a group of friends went on a trip to Brazil. They traveled to Brazil to visit Roosevelt’s son Kermit and explore the River of Doubt. One of Roosevelt’s friends and a famous explorer Candido Rondon, where he cut his leg on a boulder and suffered from Malaria. In the rainforest it became easy for the cut to become infected, once he returned home he never returned to his normal health.