For years, people teased him with names like Old Four Eyes, and in the rough and tumble world of the Badlands, this could become a real problem. One day, as Roosevelt wrote in his autobiography, he walked into a saloon near his ranch, and a belligerent drunk demanded that “Four Eyes” buy rounds for everyone in the bar. Roosevelt tried to laugh it off, but when the man stood over him brandishing a gun in each hand, Roosevelt socked him in the face.
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