In the same pattern as "Keep it for Your Children: Theodore Roosevelt's 1903 Western Trip," this new book by James Blase creates a first-person account of the now former President's extended vacation out west in the late winter and early spring of 1911. Similar to the situation which existed with his nine-week western vacation trip in the spring of 1903, the former President was too busy during this five-week western trip giving speeches, participating in parades and banquets, and planting trees to be able to write a first-person account of his own. As you travel along with the President over the duration of his second cross-country train journey, notice how Theodore Roosevelt attempts to relate a message of high ideals in every speech which he makes. More importantly, observe how the former President lives these very same high ideals, himself.