“So what’s a New York reformer doing in the Dakota Territory?”
Good question. Theodore Roosevelt (Mason Beals), the twenty something fellow facing this query by an inquisitive reporter, is indeed far from home and out of his element. He abandoned his comfortable life among the social elite class and his rising career as a crusading New York State assemblyman after enduring two devastating tragedies—the deaths of his wife and mother within hours of each other on Feb. 14, 1884. When we’re introduced to him in the first episode of , the new western series premiering April 11 on INSP, the man who would eventually become our 26th U.S. president is keeping a relatively low profile in the frontier town of
