# Hell Roaring Bill Jones — An Autobiography character guide

> Hell Roaring Bill Jones in An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Hell Roaring Bill Jones, Bill Jones, Bill

**First appearance:** 0006-iv-in-cowboy-land

## Snapshot

A Dakota cowboy whose first-class racing trotter, Alice Lane, gave Roosevelt more than one thrilling spin across the Wild West's vanishing free-range plains.

## Who they are

Hell Roaring Bill Jones belongs to the reckless riders and ranch hands Roosevelt knew during his Little Missouri years, when the unfenced cattle country still belonged to longhorns and cowpunchers. His world of stampedes, quicksand river crossings, and blinding blizzards was already being broken up by homesteaders and roving sheep bands. He matters because he embodies the free, hardy West Roosevelt loved even as he accepted its passing as a national necessity.

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