In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a tired old bear on a Mississippi hunt — and a Brooklyn shopkeeper's wife sewed the first 'Teddy's Bear' for her shop window. The story of how the most-loved stuffed animal in America got its name.
Adapted from the historical record of President Theodore Roosevelt's November 1902 Mississippi bear hunt, Clifford Berryman's Washington Post cartoon “Drawing the Line in Mississippi,” and the story of Morris and Rose Michtom's Brooklyn toy shop.
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