Theodore Roosevelts Jounrey to the "River of Doubt"

Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president; he was very liked in his time. Even after promising he wouldn’t run for president after his second term, he did anyways. Roosevelt suffered a severe defeat in his final election. After Roosevelt’s defeat he thought going to Brazil to visit his son would be a good way to get the defeat off his mind. When he got to Brazil he got offered a journey to the “River of Doubt” by the country’s foreign Minister. Roosevelt joined forces with a group of men from Brazil to seek this journey. Throughout the long torturing journey they suffered; bites from all kinds of different bugs, deadly rapids, Indian attacks, disease, starvation, and also a murder within their own group of men. On April 27, 1913, Roosevelt and his men reached the end to the “River of Doubt” and arrived in Sao Jao. After his successful journey the Brazilian Government renamed the river “Roosevelt’s River”