The origins of the teddy bear involve President Theodore Roosevelt, a bear hunt, a political cartoon, and the owner of a ...

When avid hunter Teddy Roosevelt wanted to hunt an American black bear, his African American guide was one of Mississippi’s most storied hunters.

And that is the whole, tangled tale of the teddy bear, Theodore Roosevelt and the plight of the Louisiana black bear. It’s not quite the one they put in National Park Service pamphlets or ...

Roosevelt's second term in office, 1905-1909, saw a teddy bear craze, in which hundreds of thousands of bears were sold around the world. Newspaper readers were also taken with Berryman's imagery and ...

You can credit Theodore Roosevelt. He spared the rod and in doing so spoiled us all. ... Teddy bear fans gathered in 1984 to celebrate their favorite toy. Some had bears from their childhood.

The popularity of the bear toy inspired John Walter Bratton to compose the melody “The Teddy Bears’ Picnic” in 1907, while Roosevelt was still in office. Jimmy Kennedy added lyrics in 1932.

In the Mississippi County Where a Legend Was Born, Damaged Sculptures of ‘Teddy’s Bear’ More than a century after a storied hunting trip by Theodore Roosevelt, the storm destroyed artworks ...

You can credit Theodore Roosevelt. He spared the rod and in doing so spoiled us all. ... Teddy bear fans gathered in 1984 to celebrate their favorite toy. Some had bears from their childhood.