The Real Story Behind the Teddy Bear
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2 min readAug 7, 2020
The teddy bear is the namesake of President Theodore Roosevelt and originated in 1902 when the president refused to kill a bear that his hunting party had captured. But there’s much more to the story than just this information.
Theodore Roosevelt went on a hunting trip in Mississippi on the invitation of the governor of the state, Andrew H. Longino. Roosevelt hadn’t seen a bear during three days of…
