Theodore Roosevelt "River of doubt"

Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt after a tough election suffered an embarrassing loss. After the election the summer of 1913 he took off to South America where his son, Kermit lived. They went and embarked on a journey to unmapped areas of the Brazilian jungle and headed for the Rio da Duvida “river of Doubt”. But very quickly the trip began to go dangerously wrong. Theodore had caught a very high fever, and was suffering from a very dangerous, even fatal infection from cutting his leg on a boulder. He and his men lost a lot of supplies over the span of the trip. They lost oxen and things that they needed to help them survive. After marking over 1,000 miles of the amazon jungle Theodore felt he could not travel anymore. He needed to stop his journey. His son and the rest of the men went on and he traveled back to America.