2006-12-19 20:26:12 · 13 answers · asked by MBK 7 in Games & Recreation ➔ Toys
Yes, actually their name does have something to do with "Teddy" Roosevelt, who enjoyed big game-hunting. According to one legend, the teddy bear received its birth at Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. To cheer Theodore Roosevelt after an unsuccessful day of hunting, Hotel Colorado maids presented him with a stuffed bear pieced together with scraps of fine material. Later, when he did bag a bear, his daughter Alice admired it saying, "I will call it Teddy." The term caught on.
According to another legend (and the one most often cited), the name derives from a bear-hunting trip in Sharkey County, Mississippi in 1902, when Roosevelt's tracker, noted African-American hunter and sportsman Holt Collier, found and caught an old injured bear. Roosevelt refused to kill the lassoed animal, calling it "unsportsmanlike", and instead released it. "Teddy's Bear" was immediately publicized by political cartoonists, taking journalistic licence and changing it to a young cute bear. The first such cartoon appeared the following day, November 16: Clifford Berryman, an editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, immortalized the incident as part of a front-page cartoon montage. Berryman pictured Roosevelt with his gun beside him with the butt resting on the ground and his back to the bear, gesturing his refusal to take the trophy shot. Written across the lower part of the cartoon were the words "Drawing the Line in Mississippi," which coupled the hunting incident to a political dispute (see picture to the left).
2006-12-19 20:33:18 · answer #1 · answered by pink.vixie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, teddy bears are named after Teddy Roosevelt. These bears were a marketing ploy to get people to vote for him in the presidential elections. Hope this answers your question. : -)
2006-12-22 04:51:04 · answer #2 · answered by I <3 Relient K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-27 22:03:14 · answer #3 · answered by ayoub 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Teddy Roosevelt loved wildlife but was a sickly man and couldn't get out and enjoy it as much as he liked. He had polio and was confined to a wheel chair but wanted to be in nature.
This president of the U.S. started the national park service and reserved land for animals to exist with out being hunted. People thought he was "soft" in the Wild Old West days and made the stuffed animal to poke fun of him.
Teddy Roosevelt wanted to protect bears...cowboys and hunters wanted to kill them as they killed livestock. Teddy Roosevelt won and we have many national parks in America today. We also have "Teddy" bears.
2006-12-19 20:31:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it was actually Teddy Roosevelt former american president who slept with the teddy bear first. He also invented it so it was named after him.
2006-12-19 20:28:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ted Roosevelt wasnt all that cuddly. He was a very head strong and determined individual, kind of a bad *** in his day and time!
Im sure it stems from taking a large and dangerous animal and making into something nonthreatning.
2006-12-19 20:33:09 · answer #6 · answered by k.c. 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2006-12-19 20:27:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are two stories surrounding this, but both involve teddy roosevelt.
If you're interested, read the article below:
2006-12-19 20:28:43 · answer #8 · answered by mookvey 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
his name is theodore roosevelt it said that it was because while hunting he did not shot the bear that is why it was named after him because of his love for the bear
2006-12-19 21:54:30 · answer #9 · answered by ACK 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it is. If you google the two, you will be able to pull up the whole story, which I don't recall in detail.
2006-12-19 20:29:05 · answer #10 · answered by P M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋