Theodore Roosevelt is my hero, so with all the controversy about having motorboats at Lake Nighthorse, I had to research what he thought.
TR, after all, signed the Reclamation Act of 1902 that created the Bureau of Reclamation that built the reservoir in the first place. But as to motors on lakes, he was very specific. Writing in his autobiography in 1913, Roosevelt explained, “I cannot help thinking that the people with motor boats miss a great deal. If they would only keep to rowboats or canoes, and use oar or paddle ... they would get infinitely more benefit than by having their work done for them by gasoline.”
Andrew Gulliford
Durango
