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Rough Riders - Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill (Paperback)
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Rough Riders - Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill (Paperback)
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The first definitive account of this legendary fighting force and
its extraordinary leader, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Lee Gardner's
Rough Riders is narrative nonfiction at its most invigorating and
compulsively readable. Its dramatic unfolding of a familiar, yet
not-fully-known story will remind readers of James Swanson's
Manhunt. Two months after the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana
Harbor in February 1898, Congress authorized President McKinley to
recruit a volunteer army to drive the Spaniards from Cuba. From
this army emerged the legendary "Rough Riders," a mounted regiment
drawn from America's western territories and led by the indomitable
Theodore Roosevelt. Its ranks included not only cowboys and other
westerners, but several Ivy Leaguers and clubmen, many of them
friends of "TR." Roosevelt and his men quickly came to symbolize
American ruggedness, daring, and individualism. He led them to
victory in the famed Battle at San Juan Hill, which made TR a
national hero and cemented the Rough Riders' place in history. Now,
Mark Lee Gardner synthesizes previously unknown primary accounts as
well as period newspaper articles, letters, and diaries from public
and private archives in Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
Boston, and Washington, DC, to produce this authoritative
chronicle. He breathes fresh life into the Rough Riders and pays
tribute to their daring feats and indomitable leader. Gardner also
explores lesser-known aspects of the story, including their
relationship with the African-American "Buffalo Soldiers, with whom
they fought side by side at San Juan Hill. Rich with action,
violence, camaraderie, and courage, Rough Riders sheds new light on
the Theodore Roosevelt saga-and on one of the most thrilling
chapters in American history.
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