"Theodore Roosevelt: A Cowboy's Ride to the White House" is a one-hour television documentary that details the story of a physically challenged young man from Harvard who came to the Western Frontier in 1883. Theodore Roosevelt came to hunt but fell in love with the Badlands of Dakota and quickly bought a ranch, learned how to ride, carry a 'six-shooter' and acquired the skills that would make him a war hero and an American President. It was in the Badlands of Dakota where the young New York dandy became and American cowboy, democracy and the heritage of the American West.