Book Signing and Presentation

Saturday, July 6, 2019, 11am

As part of his "Tracing TR's 1903 Train Trip Tour," author James Blase will be presenting at the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum on Saturday, July 6, at 11am. Mr. Blase's new book, Keep it for Your Children: Theodore Roosevelt's 1903 Western Trip, creates a first-person journal of a 66-day western train trip the President made during his first term in office, in the spring of 1903. Roosevelt's train trip included two weeks in California, from May 7 through May 20, 1903, with a May 9 stop in San Luis Obispo. The audience will be able to purchase autographed copies of Mr. Blase's 390-page book, at a discounted price.



Mr. Blase will make a Powerpoint presentation, complete with photos, of the entire 66-day trip, but emphasizing the President's stops in California. The presentation is being made in conjunction with a two-week Amtrak western "loop tour" train trip Mr. Blase will be making, beginning in St Louis, Missouri (the "Gateway to the West") on July 1, and continuing through New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, Southern California (arriving at the San Luis Obispo Amtrak station, located just north of the Railroad Museum, on July 5), Oregon, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota, and culminating in St. Louis. The tour's route mirrors much of the President's, in 1903.

Thanks to Gary See for these photos from the event.