Ben.....sadly Roosevelt's Carbine has gone missing, presumably stolen by persons unknown. There is a picture in the Geortz/Sturgess "Pistole Parabellum" of TR's son Kermit
carrying it through the jungle during their epic South American expedition. It can be seen to have the early non-ramped front sight and the rear tangent mounted sight.
As a side point, the expedition was a mammoth undertaking, a grand and dangerous adventure ( see the 3rd book in Edmund Morris' great biography of TR) . Kermit proved himself worthy of his great father, and probably was the only reason TR survived the ordeal.
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