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In November 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt went on a hunting trip in Mississippi. Since he had shot no game throughout the trip, accommodating supporters arranged to have a small, young bear placed in the president's path so he could shoot it. The president refused. Although an avid hunter, Roosevelt thought that shooting such a bear was unsportsmanlike. The press picked up on the story, and a political cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman depicting the incident was printed in the Washington Post on 16 November 1902. A redrawing of the cartoon appeared that evening in the Washington Evening Star. Both cartoons were called "Drawing the Line in Mississippi" and had a double meaning; not only had Roosevelt drawn the line on sportsmanship but he had also settled a boundary dispute between Louisiana and Mississippi while on this trip. Morris and Rose Mitchom from Brooklyn, New...
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