Born in the Badlands

At just 25 years old, Theodore Roosevelt is a rising star in New York's Republican party, with a beautiful young wife, and a first child on the way. But everything changes on Valentine's Day, 1884 when his wife dies after childbirth and his mother dies from typhoid. Consumed with grief, Teddy abruptly abandons the life he knows and moves west to the Dakota Territory. There, in the midst of bar fights, Indian attacks, and cattle stampedes, this blueblood greenhorn discovers the true soul of the American frontier, and transforms himself into the man who would become known as 'The Cowboy President.'